Hong Kong

Last year I went on a little bit of gourmet eating binge in Hong Kong. I’ve decided to list a few of the places for future reference:

Orange Space (Chinese food, Wan Chai) $ ** - Well the place is orange I can’t fault them there. Off street café with great drinks like mango and chocolate milshakes but marginal food.

Zomba (Café, Wan Chai) $$ ** - Not the place to be in a typhoon. A little to much glass ;)

Modern Chinese (Shichaun, Times Square) $½ *** - Yeah! I wanted some hot food and I got it!!! Two thirds of the dish was chillies!

??(OK I forgot the name!! Next time I’m in HK I’ll get the name) (Dim Sum Place, Tsim Sha Tsui end Hau Fook Rd Level 3) ½$ *** - Feed four people for $15HK. The place is awesome even better than City Hall. The Custard Buns are excellent.

Quanjude (Bejing Food, Wan Chai) $$ *** - Excellent Peking duck restaurant.

Zahara (Lebanese, Wan Chai) $$ **½ - Excellent Messa, didn’t even get to the main dishes.

Southern Provincial Chinese (Guess the food type, Wan Chai) $ **** - WOW, this place is amazing! It looks like a five star restaurant and the food is bloody good and the price is the same as the dingy hawker market down the street. Maybe it’s the same food ;)

Kyouki (Japanese, Causeway Bay) $ **** - Again a table full of sashimi, drinks, noodles and soup for $200HK. Nice view too.

The Peninsular Hotel (High Tea, Tsim Sha Tsu) $$$ *** - OK the food is great! But as an engineer I did notice the sewage pipe running across the lobby ceiling that they have tried very hard to
disguise. Hmm not what you expect for one of the worlds top hotels!

Tokyo Hip House (Japanese, Sendo Square, Macau) $$$ **** - It’s a bit hard to review this one as it didn’t actually open till the day after we ate there. The owner let us eat there to assist with training his staff. Ordering food was also a bit difficult as the kitchen was only half stocked. Either way the
food we did get was really really good! Sort of a modern twist on traditional Japanese food.

Photo of the opening festival the next day!

Felix (Fusion, Tsim Sha Tsui) $$$$$ ***** - I’m not exaggerating here. It is one of the top restaurants in the world and you pay for that. The view is awesome, drinking fine wine and watching the laser show over a central is something that you can only do at Felix. With floor to ceiling glass throughout (including the toilets) you feel a little like a goldfish on the top of a very high building. BTW, leave your modesty at the door because the view from the toilets goes both ways!!

City Hall (Yum Cha, Central) $ *** - Another awesome yum cha restaurant. They are all great this one just costs more.