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Hong Kong-style American cuisine (西餐, sai chaan, lit. West meal) is a style of American cooking served by some Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong, as well as places where many Hong Kong residents have immigrated to. This is the opposite of American Chinese cuisine, a Chinese cuisine geared towards Westerners; rather it is an American cuisine geared toward Hong Kong and immigrant Chinese.

1 Traditional Sai Chaan

Restaurants serving traditional sai chaan cuisine are mainly run by Chinese immigrants or their descendents and, at least in America, cater to the taste of mid 20th-century immigrant Chinese Americans, as well as Chinese Americans born in the US in the mid-20th century.

Generally, the meal will consist of:

• a cup of a Western soup, such as New England Clam Chowder ,
• diner's choice of coffee or plain American tea
• a Western entree, such as oxtail stew or a pork chop, served with
• diner's choice of steamed white rice or spaghetti (without sauce), and sometimes
• dessert, consisting of a slice of pie, or red sweetened gelatin or agar agar

The traditional sai chaan will have other beverages available, such as Ovaltine, a brand of chocolate beverage, or HorlicksHorlicks is the name of a company and a milky hot drink claimed to promote sleep when drunk at bedtime. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom and India. Company timeline 1869: William Horlick from Gloucestershire immigrates to the Un, a brand of coffee substitute. The restaurant may or may not serve American Chinese cuisine as well.

These restaurants represent some earliest efforts into fusion cuisineFusion cuisine combines elements of various culinary traditions whilst not fitting specifically into any. The term generally refers to the innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s. This type of restaurant's success depends on a; some became famous by using soy sauce when preparing Western dishes.