有人说,冰室是茶餐厅的前身。其实,比起如今随处可见的港式茶餐厅,冰室更能够代表香港的市井文化。它们中的老字号不多见于繁华街道,反而藏匿角落,偏安一隅,在时代的浪潮中横亘半个世纪,台湾作家舒国平这样形容香港冰室:“你在中环或尖沙嘴这类炫亮之区不易见着,在陈旧灰暗的老商区的后巷背街倒可偶一见之,有怀旧癖者正好可借此寻幽搜古一番。” Some people say that the ice room is the predecessor of the cafeteria. Actually, compared with the Hong Kong-style restaurant nowadays, the ice room can better represent the well-being culture in Hong Kong. They are old and rare in the bustling streets, but hide the corner, the corner of security, in the tide of the times, half a century, Taiwan writer Shu Guoping Hong Kong ice room so described: "You in Central or Tsim Sha Tsui this kind of bright District is not easy to see, in the old dark streets of the back lanes of the old business district can be seen, there are some nostalgia can take this quiet search some ancient.