Category: food & drinks

  • Shiro @ Pacific Place, Hong Kong

    Our second last meal in Hong Kong was eaten at Shiro in Pacific Place.  It was raining so we did not want to wander the streets looking for a restaurant. Shiro exudes a modern Japanese ambiance – mirrors with a repeating Japanese-y motif and cured-ribbed walls.  Nice bar, too. Must be packed on a weekday lunch…

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  • Food paradise: home-cooked feast

    My young auntie C and her husband KK invited us over to her home for lunch before our return to Europe.  I vaguely remember visiting their home in the 80’s.  Surprising for Hong Kong, the surrounding areas have not changed much at all. All the dishes were cooked by C and her domestic help while…

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  • 翠華餐廳 Tsui Wah Restaurant

    Tsui Wah 翠華 is the second restaurant that is worth a mention for its quality, price, and inventiveness.  It is one of the best in a class of restaurants that is similar in spirit to a US diner.  These restaurants serve all kinds of food, local HK style, Chinese regional, “Western”, Northeast (Japan and Korea)…

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  • 黃枝記粥麵店 Wong Chi Kee Congee & Noodle Shop

    On this trip, two restaurants are worth a special mention – they are both inexpensive, reliable, open at all hours, and make an effort to produce a best-in-class dish.  They are well-known locally and I am now a fan too.  The first is 黃枝記粥麵店 Wong Chi Kee Congee & Noodle shop (WCK), the other is…

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  • Rossio 盛事 @ MGM Grand, Macau

    This restaurant Rossio (盛事) is located inside the MGM Grand just beyond the gambling floor.  I am not sure what cuisine it serves normally.  They were offering seafood buffet the night we went (Chinese New Year’s eve) – on offer were unlimited sushi, oysters, snow crab legs, shark’s fin soup, a wide selection of international dishes,…

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  • Restaurante Litoral 海灣餐廳, Macau

    On the same day we went to the A-Ma Temple, we went to lunch at – Restaurante Litoral 海灣餐廳 at 261A Rua do Almirante Sérgio, in the inner port area.  They serve traditional Macanese dishes – a fusion of Portugal, Chinese and African flavors.  Macau has more than 500 years of history (compared to HK’s…

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