Restaurant review: when it comes to Canto classics, Fortune Kitchen in Causeway Bay is a wok star

Fortune Kitchen is a popular restaurant. Although we booked in advance, we were told we couldn’t eat at our requested time of 7.30pm, and instead could have the table only between 6pm and 8pm.

Its popularity seems justified. The small restaurant is attractively decorated, quiet (despite being busy), with polite servers and a small menu of reasonably priced, well-made classic Cantonese dishes.

Double-boiled pig’s lung soup with almonds and pork (HK$138 for four small bowls) was light and cooling, with small chunks of soft lung.

Salt and pepper squid with deep-fried tofu (HK$78) had a delicate coating on the squid rings and wobbly pieces of bean curd.