# Retro Hong Kong Cha Chaan Teng Portrait Prompt - Model: [Nano Banana Pro](/models/nano-banana-2-1.md) - Creator: [Library Portraits (@library.portraits)](/@library.portraits.md) - Label: AI-generated - Use cases: Portraits - AI keywords: portrait, photo, warm, social post - Copies: 0 - Saves: 0 - Published: 2026-11-01 - Cover image: https://cdn.promptclay.com/media/v/01M6B82SDYJXGDSV8X130B3KJ6/w1200.webp - Page: https://promptclay.com/prompts/retro-hong-kong-cha-chaan-teng-portrait-prompt-nvby86 ## Prompt ```text Retro Hong Kong cha chaan teng portrait, 90s Hong Kong film still aesthetic, candid documentary vibe. Subject: A 25-year-old adult East Asian female with an oval face, thin eyebrows, and dark pupils; fair skin preserving fine pores and natural textures, rejecting plastic-like smoothing; light makeup with reddish lips. Long black hair draped over shoulders with naturally curled ends, strands falling by the face. Expression: Eyes looking off-camera to the left, relaxed and lazy demeanor, a faint smile at the corners of the mouth, like being caught daydreaming in the afternoon. Clothing: Cream white pure cotton short-sleeved shirt with one button open at the collar; dark brown high-waisted corduroy wide-leg pants; black thin belt; pearl earrings. Outfit is clean and sharp, with vintage vibes hidden in details. Pose/Action: Sitting in a window-side booth at a cha chaan teng, body slightly turned towards the window, one elbow resting on the table holding a steaming silk stocking milk tea, the other hand casually supporting her chin. Relaxed posture, not stiff. Props: On the table are pineapple buns, shrimp dumplings in bamboo steamers, metal milk tea cups, menu boards, wooden chopstick holders. Environment: Foreground features slightly blurred milk tea cups and steamers; mid-ground shows the subject and booth table; background reveals the interior of the cha chaan teng—green mosaic tile walls, red neon sign 'Cha Chaan Teng', old-style ceiling fans, glass cabinets displaying egg tarts and pastries; distant diners appear as soft blurs. Lighting: Warm yellow indoor pendant lights as main light, color temperature around 3200K, wrapped in a thin haze of cooking oil smoke; cool daylight from outside serves as rim light, creating warm-cool contrast. Soft highlights reflect on glass cabinets and tiles. Camera: 50mm prime lens, f/2.0, half-body shot, eye-level slightly low angle, shallow depth of field, subject clear while foreground/background naturally blurred, slightly handheld casual framing, film grain, Kodak Gold film simulation, Eastmancolor palette. Mood: Nostalgic, slow-paced afternoon laziness, like a frozen frame from an old Hong Kong movie. Quality Tags: ultra detailed, photorealistic, cinematic, high resolution, natural skin texture. Negative Constraints: No oil painting, No anime, No 3D render, No cartoon, no deformed hands, no plastic skin, no oversaturated colors, no text artifacts, no watermark. ``` ## About A detailed prompt for generating a photorealistic portrait of a woman in a retro Hong Kong cafe setting, used in a comparison between GPT-image-2.5, Nano Banana 2, and Grok-imagine2. Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab). ## Credit and licence Prompt by @library.portraits on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/retro-hong-kong-cha-chaan-teng-portrait-prompt-nvby86 When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. 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