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~ Local Picks in Hong Kong ~
Hong Kong is well-known to be a “Food Paradise” – full of good restaurants serving wide variety of
cuisine, from small local noodle shops to world class fine-dining restaurants. The following list of
restaurants is only for your reference, and is neither complete nor professional.
You can refer to www.openrice.com for more restaurant options and reviews. Smartphone app is also
available.
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id310663323?mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openrice.android
Fancy Restaurants Selection
The Michelin Guide 2018
The international benchmark of good food, the Michelin Guide has been awarding stars in Hong Kong since
2009 and the first Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant was from Asia’s world city. Michelin inspectors grade
each restaurant according to five criteria. The latest edition is another guide to the variety and quality of the
city’s dining offerings, from high-end to street stall.
(The restaurants are listed in alphabetical order)
Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey
8½ Otto e Mezzo BOMBANA (Central) Design based on Fellini’s film, this classy restaurant represents
the chic and modern of a cosmopolitan. Most of the pastas are
handmade which promises a unique texture, must-try dishes
include the prawn pasta and fettuccini.
Address:
Shop 202, 2/F, Alexandra House, 5-17 Des Voeux Road Central,
Central, Hong Kong Island
Phone: +852 2537 8859
Bo Innovation (Wan Chai) BO Innovation offers modern dishes and has unique chef- Mr.
Alvin. He decided to take Chinese food in a different direction
and started experimenting with ideas. He created modernized
Chinese cuisine by combining centuries old recipes with
modern ingredients and cooking techniques.
Address:
Shop 13, 2/F, J Residence, 60 Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Hong
Kong Island
Quality Tourism Services
(QTS) Scheme accredited
Phone: +852 2850 8371
restaurant
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon (Central) A grand restaurant with fresh French dishes in an extensive
menu, L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon serves authentic and
flavoured food in a stunning decor.
Address:
Shop 401, 4/F, The Landmark, 16 Des Voeux Road Central,
Central, Hong Kong Island
Phone: +852 2166 9000
Lung King Heen (Central) Lung King Heen commands spectacular harbour views from its
fourth-floor location, and offers contemporary Cantonese
cuisine at its best – created from the freshest local ingredients
by a team of regionally renowned chefs. Enhancing the dining
experience, silver and glass accents – including an undulating
silver-leaf ceiling – reflect Hong Kong’s glittering skyline and
harbour lights. Lung King Heen is the only Chinese restaurant
in Hong Kong to receive three Michelin stars. The only Chinese
chef ever to receive this prestigious accolade, Executive
Chinese Chef Chan Yan Tak is the master behind the intricately
designed menu.
Address:
Podium 4, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, 8 Finance Street,
Central, Hong Kong Island
Phone: +852 3196 8880
Sushi Shikon (Sheung Wan) Inherit the soul of Michelin 3-star sushi house in Japan, Shikon
has a strong persist to import ingredients from the Tsukiji fish
market everyday, to ensure they can create the best quality
and freshest sushi and sashimi. Moreover their sushi rice also
bought from Niigata and flavored with 4-year-old vinegar.
Address:
The Mercer, 29 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island
Phone: +852 2643 6800
T'ang Court (Tsim Sha Tsui) T'ang Court serves a wide selection of authentic Cantonese
culinary masterpieces and delicacies. Winner of several
gourmet awards, T'ang Court has been named as one of the
"World's Best Hotel Dining Rooms" by the US Gourmet
Magazine; one of the "Ten Great Hotel Restaurants" by Hotels
Magazine and one of the "100 Hot Places and Things" by
Travel & Leisure Magazine.
Address:
1/F, The Langham Hong Kong, 8 Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui,
Kowloon
Phone: +852 2132 7898
More information can be found at http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/dine-drink/dining-events-
awards/michelin-guide-awards/index.jsp.
Restaurants near Congress venue
Chopsticks Fork n Knife Western Cuisine
Address: Shop 110, 1/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip Road,
Wong Chuk Hang
Phone: +852 2110 3699
MUM Veggie + Coffee + Sweet Japanese/Western Cuisine
Address: G07, G/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip Road,
Wong Chuk Hang
Phone: +852 2115 3348
Pizza Express Western Cuisine
Address: Shop G03, G/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip
Road, Wong Chuk Hang
Phone:+852 35858598
GCX Italian Cuisine
Address: Shop G09, G/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip
Road, Wong Chuk Hang
Phone: +852 25280772
Starbucks Coffee American Cuisine
Address: Shop G05, G/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip
Road, Wong Chuk Hang
Phone: +852 2518 0536
Golden Monkey
Vietnamese Cuisine
Address: Shop G08, G/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip
Road, Wong Chuk Hang
Phone: +852 3100 0184
Africa Coffee & Tea
African Cuisine
Address: Suite 1501-1504, 15/F, 41 Heung Yip Road, Wong
Chuk Hang
Phone: +852 2180 7536
Local Delicacies
Snacking in Hong Kong is a diverse business, with everything from slush drinks and egg tarts to octopus balls
available on the streets. Graze your way around Hong Kong for a really local experience. Just look out for the
long lines of customers and you’ll be onto a good thing! In Hong Kong, snacks are usually sold in restaurants
or from take-away windows on the street. The entire repertoire is vast, but here are some classics:
Pineapple buns
Traditionally, pineapple bun contained no pineapple and earned its name
because its chequered top resembles the skin of a pineapple. The top half
of the bun is made from cookie-type dough, while the bottom is made from
Chinese-style bread dough, which tends to be softer and sweeter than
Western bread. Many vendors insert a cold pat of butter into a warm
pineapple bun.
Egg tarts
A pastry-crust filled with egg custard and baked. This popular Hong Kong
snack probably originates from English custard cakes. Some are made with
cookie dough while others have a flaky pastry. The latter are often referred
to as Portuguese egg tarts.
Saqima
A type of caramel fritter that is extremely time consuming and deceptively
difficult to make. This is a Manchurian sweet and its name means ‘delicious
small eat’ in Manchu.
Pitted preserved prunes This dried fruit snack is sweet and sour. Many believe it has medicinal qualities. Faux Shark’s Fin Soup A version of the expensive banquet soup using other types of fish for a similar effect. This is a popular traditional quick eat. Wife Cake A bun filled with sweet winter melon paste. Legend has it that when the winter-melon puffs made by a woman in Guangdong Province were highly praised in public, her husband proudly declared that there were his wife’s cakes. The name ‘wife cake’ stuck. In Hong Kong, back when the New Territories was a day trip away from the urban areas, it was de rigeur for visitors to Yuen Long to buy wife cakes to take home. Today, they can be easily purchased at Chinese bakery shops citywide. Mini Egg Puffs Sweetened egg batter grilled in a mould to make puffs. Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. These days it comes in a range of flavours, including chocolate, strawberry and coconut. White Sugar Cake Originating in Shunde, Guangdong province, this traditional pastry is made by steaming a dough mixture of rice flour, white sugar, water and yeast. It is sweet with some sour notes and has a soft and spongy texture.
Put Chai Ko Often translated as ‘sticky rice pudding’, put chai ko is typically made of rice flour and red beans. These ingredients are put in a small china bowl. When the pudding sets, it can be removed from the bowl on a small stick and eaten like a popsicle. Modern innovations of this traditional snack have introduced new flavours such as pumpkin and green tea. Fishballs Fishballs are always served in curry and sold on skewer. Siu mai Different from the dim sum served in Chinese restaurants. It does not include any ingredient other than fish meat and pork. Stinky tofu Deep-fried, smells stinky after natural fermentation. Stinky tofu can be eaten cold, steamed, stewed, or, most commonly, deep-fried, and it is often accompanied by chili sauce. The color varies from the golden, fried Zhejiang-style to the black, typical of Hunan-style stinky tofu. From a distance, the odor of stinky tofu is said to resemble that of rotten garbage, manure or smelly feet. Some people have compared it to the taste of blue cheese, while others have compared it to rotten meat. It is said that the more it smells, the better its flavor.
Beef offal
Good quality beef is chosen to stew with its entrails for a couple of hours.
There are several ways to serve this food, for instance, as beef entrails hot
pot, beef entrails on a skewer and beef entrails served with pieces etc. The
seasonings called '13 herbs' are the main composition of the master stock
sauce, and none of the herbs can be omitted, or else, it causes a huge
change on the flavour. The herbs are fennel, Sichuan peppercorn, star
anise, dried citrus peel, cinnamon, sand ginger, nutmeg, etc. The tripe (four
tripes of the cow are eatable but the honeycomb tripe has the higher
rating), pancreas, intestine, spleen and lungs are the major characters of
the beef entrails. The dish is usually served with chili oil and pepper
powder. It is not only tasty, but also contains high nutrition value.
Dai Pai Dong
Dai pai dong are open-air street-stalls that serve cooked
food. The name literally means ‘restaurant with a big
license plate’, referring to the large size of the licenses they
are issued. Today, the term is applied to all open-air food
stalls, and not just the ones with this specific license. Dai
pai dong food usually consists of stir-fries although you
can find just about any type of dish or snack in one. Eating
at a dai pai dong is truly Hong Kong experience as you will
probably end up sharing a table with strangers during busy
hours, can cross order from different vendors and are free
to watch the local street life. Dai pai dong can be found
almost anywhere in the city. Side streets and lanes are the most likely place to spot them. You can find ones
that are decades old near the the Central－Mid-Levels Escalator in Central on Hong Kong Island and in the
neighbourhood of Sham Shui Po in Kowloon.
For more suggestions, please visit the following websites:
1. Hong Kong Summer Fun - local delicacies recommendations:
http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/see-do/events-festivals/highlight-events/summer-fun.jsp
Bars
There are two areas which you can find the best and the most bars in Hong Kong:
1. Lan Kwai Fong is a small square of streets in Central, Hong
Kong. It is a popular expatriate haunt in Hong Kong for
drinking, clubbing and dining. The street Lan Kwai Fong is L-
shaped with two ends joining with D'Aguilar Street.
The Lan Kwai Fong Association is a non-profit making
business chamber which groups together over 100
restaurants, bars, clubs, retailers and service providers in Lan
Kwai Fong to promote the unique Lan Kwai Fong culture and
charms to locals and the world.
2. Knutsford Terrace is a terrace street in Tsim Sha Tsui,
Kowloon in Hong Kong. It is famous for its bars, pubs and
restaurants.
On the south slope of Observatory Hill, it is hidden behind
the buildings of Kimberley Road. The street is strictly for
pedestrians. Instead of vehicles, it is full of tables and chairs
for the restaurants.
There is road access to the terrace near Miramar Shopping
Centre and further road access from Observatory Road.
For more specific and special bars, please refer to http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/dine-
drink/whats-hot/bar-guide/index.jsp.
Sources from:
http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/dine-drink/dining-events-awards/michelin-guide-awards/index.jsp
http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/dine-drink/what-to-eat/local-flavours/local-snacks.jsp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_street_food
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan_Kwai_Fong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knutsford_Terrace
http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/dine-drink/whats-hot/bar-guide/index.jsp
* The information is correct at the time of 21 September 2018 and subject to change at any time without
prior notice.
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