Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 15-18
Craving a culinary adventure this weekend? Indulge in a 20-inch banh mi, a Shanghai-Huaiyang brunch, an award-winning pizza and a rare French feast
From Hong Kong’s biggest bamboo charcoal banh mi and a masterful Shanghai-Huaiyang brunch, to Vincenzo Capuano’s theatrical Neapolitan debut and Jean-Pierre restaurant’s Sydney collaboration, this weekend’s guide serves up a diverse line-up of must-book feasts from Friday through Monday.
Friday, May 15
Bistro Hoi An celebrates Vietnam’s Banh Mi Festival with Hong Kong’s largest bamboo charcoal banh mi, a record-breaking 20-inch show-stopper limited to just 20 per day – meaning they should be ordered in advance. The Vietnamese baguette is filled with chicken and pork liver pâté, five-spice pork belly, pork floss, pickled vegetables, spring onion, coriander, chilli and Vietnamese mayonnaise, and splashed with fish sauce.
Pair it with Vietnamese drinks like ca phe muoi (salted coffee) or ca phe dua (coconut coffee), sourced from Hoi An Roastery’s sustainable farms. Make it a feast with the Vietnamese Flavour Platter, complete with steamed savoury rice cakes, prawn and avocado rice-paper rolls, crispy pork and taro spring rolls, chicken skewers and honey pomelo prawn salad, plus beef tartare or grilled beef in betel leaf.
Where: Civic Square, Elements, 1 Austin Road West, West Kowloon
When: Until June 30