Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 6-8
Sip on single-origin matcha, sink into a black sesame flan afternoon tea at Rosewood, then feast on an Italian-led Sunday roast at Island Shangri-La
As February’s first weekend rolls in, the city’s afternoons are made for lingering – whether over stone-milled matcha cruffins and velvety lattes in Sai Ying Pun, or a flan-tastic afternoon tea in Tsim Sha Tsui – before closing the weekend with a unique Italian twist on the classic British roast dinner, high above Admiralty.
This guide has all you need for a long and leisurely weekend, filled with delicious bites ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations.
Friday, February 6
Get your Friday afternoon matcha fix at Aokomi, Hong Kong’s first in-store stone mill matcha specialist. Opened in Sai Ying Pun, the matcha experts grind fresh Uji tencha leaves (ungrounded tea leaves) into fine powder for an authentic “tencha-to-matcha” experience of depth and aroma.
The menu spotlights single-cultivar velvet and straight matcha – which is hand-harvested from natural, untrimmed bushes per the shizen-shitate method – alongside signatures like the proprietary Komi matcha latte, innovative Ao-cano (a spin on the Americano in the form of tea-infused water with a matcha base), strawberry matcha cappuccino, and hojicha oat brew, paired with light bites such as tencha pistachio nut butter on sourdough, Cantabrian anchovies on soft-boiled egg, and silky matcha pudding.
Where: Shop 3, G/F, Island Crest, 8 First Street, Sai Ying Pun
When: 8.30am-4.30pm