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Tag: Hong Kong
Four Seasons Claypot Rice
Tasty lens flare When there is a queue of twenty people out the front, take the hint. It is either very good or super cheap. Most of the time, I have a plan to eat my way around but after knocking back a handful of dumpling meals, I was satisfied by Hong Kong. This opened… Continue reading Four Seasons Claypot Rice
Meandering through Sheung Wan
Just to avoid the impression that I did nothing but eat dumplings in Hong Kong, I also spent a few lazy hours wandering the streets of Sheung Wan in a dumpling and pork induced stupor, planning which dumpling place I’d hit next and remembering dumplings past. Sheung Wan is where the edible dried miscellany vendors… Continue reading Meandering through Sheung Wan
Sending an SMS, Kowloon
Standing in a quiet spot, sending an SMS. Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Lin Heung, Hong Kong
Lin Heung is proof that the advice from random strangers on the Internet is better than anything published elsewhere. A commenter whom I’ve never seen before mentioned this dim sum joint amongst a handful of the sort of hawker stalls that pique my interest, so I decided to hit it up. Just because I don’t… Continue reading Lin Heung, Hong Kong
City Hall Maxim’s Palace, Hong Kong
When people play the standards well, it is still exciting. To be sure, City Hall Maxim’s Palace isn’t the sophisticate jazz stylings of Lung King Heen but those culinary riffs wouldn’t exist without a benchmark. In Hong Kong dim sum, that ticking metronome is Maxim’s. They make the classics in plenteous quantity and they do… Continue reading City Hall Maxim’s Palace, Hong Kong
Lung King Heen: 3 star dumplings
Scallop and prawn dumpling, Lung King Heen It’s a strange thing to live in the bottom half of the planet that has no Michelin stars. In some ways, it has an internal logic for Michelin: the guide’s ostensible purpose was to get people out into the provinces by car and thereby burn through more Michelin… Continue reading Lung King Heen: 3 star dumplings
Suggestions: Hong Kong
I’m heading to Hong Kong in April (also, Sydney for the search nerdery of SMX, KL for a stopover and Cambodia to placate Phnomenon fans). I don’t even know where to start in HK apart from what I trawl from Diana Kuan’s Appetite for China. Any suggestions?