With only weeks to go before the lease on her Lan Kwai Fong restaurant expires, Thai restaurant queen Supatra has found a new location. The next version of her restaurant, scheduled to open in July, will be near the Foreign Correspondents' Club on Ice House Street. The new Supatra's will, of course, remains true to its Thai traditions (tel: 2522-5073).
In the space on the corner of Lan Kwai Fong where Supatra's has reigned for 10 years, the Va Bene crowd are opening a new Italian restaurant, Benessimo, on September 1.
Cheesy fix without fat Low-fat cheeses have finally become a fixture on Hong Kong's cheese counters. While they may not have the distinctive character of brie or Camembert, cheeses like St Claire Swiss and St Otho Healthy work well for what they are - a healthy alternative to one of the highest-fat food categories.
The St Claire Swiss ($13 per 100g) is on the stronger side. A panel assembled to taste a few of these low-fat cheeses detected a stinging aftertaste. The French St Otho Healthy ($22 per 100g) is 95 per cent fat-free, slightly sour and does not taste like cheese as we know it. But it sits well on a water cracker.
The most boring, dubbed simply 'Plain Cheese', was judged pleasant but hardly earth shattering. Plain Cheese ($17 per 100g) is British and contains only 14 per cent fat.
Other low-fat cheeses available are Diet Gouda ($17 per 100g) and Low Fat Havarti ($18 per 100g) and are available from Seibu.