Kitchen Confidential

Pop-up specialist Test Kitchen is organizing its second-ever event on August 1, this time flying in chef Sarawut Phawakkarakun from Bangkok to prep an interactive dinner for TK’s participants. Chef Sarawut worked under Nahm’s David Thompson and is about to open his own restaurant in Bangkok, so you can think of his Hong Kong show as a sort of testing ground for his ideas. How does it work? Diners get to rate each dish chef Sarawut cooks, marking down opinions on comment cards. At the end of the meal, all the feedback goes straight to the chef. But everyone gets a presumably delicious meal out of the whole affair—so hopefully you won’t be giving out too many low marks. The dinner will be held at a secret location to be announced closer to the date. Tickets cost $980 per person, and can be bought at testkitchen.com.hk.

Consider the Oyster

Get ready to get your slurp on at The Walrus (64 Staunton St., Central) oyster bar, so named for the fantastically cruel oyster-baiting poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass.” Owned by the Chow sisters of The Woods fame, TW is a colorful, under-the-sea-inspired venue that serves the briny creatures raw, as part of shots, and many other creative ways besides. There will also be other fresh seafood on the menu
to go with the briny bivalves.