Chocoholics should book the weekend lunch and dessert buffet at Amber in the Landmark Mandarin Hotel, where a chocolate sommelier will advise on combinations of hot chocolate drinks. The dessert buffet, which includes white, milk and dark Valrhona chocolate fountains, also has unlimited hot chocolate drinks that will be made to order by the sommelier, using flavours such as Manjari from Madagascar (64 per cent cocoa), San Domingue from the Dominican Republic (70 per cent), Tanzanie from Africa (75 per cent) and Valrhona Ivoire (35 per cent). The drinks can be flavoured with ingredients such as raspberries, pink peppercorns and chilli. The weekend lunch and dessert buffet is HK$348 plus 10 per cent for adults (HK$138 for children). Bookings: 2132 0066
Three hotels are serving wild mushrooms from Yunnan province.
At Yee Tung Heen in the Excelsior in Causeway Bay, the selection includes stir-fried minced fish with ganbajun mushrooms (below), baked chicken wings stuffed with forest mushrooms, sauteed scallops with termite mushrooms and sliced ham, and pan-fried prawns stuffed with yellow porcini, goose liver and eggplant. The dishes are available until the end of next month. Bookings: 2837 6790
Shang Palace at the Kowloon Shangri-La is also serving wild mushroom dishes until the end of next month. Dishes include stewed fresh frog legs with red porcini, sauteed fillet of lobster with chanterelles and water chestnuts, double-boiled chicken soup with morel mushrooms, sauteed porcini in olive oil, and steamed rice with termite mushrooms. To complement dishes, wine writer Lau Chi-sun (editor of Wine Now magazine and author of Heavenly Match) has chosen a selection of wines. Bookings: 2733 8754
Celestial Court at the Sheraton hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui is dishing up mushroom dishes until August 27. These include fortune chicken with matsutake and assorted fresh mushrooms, Yunnan ham with ganbajun mushrooms on bread, and braised pork belly with porcini mushrooms. The restaurant
will also have an eight-course wild mushroom wine dinner tomorrow
