Favourite Hong Kong restaurants of LantauMama’s Jacqueline Renee Cohen
Founder of Hong Kong healthy living organisation tells us her top spots for a health-conscious lunch, her family’s go-to brunch place, and some regular haunts around their South Lantau home
We eat very healthily at home, I have home-made fermented items every day, so I am more relaxed when we go out.
For a quick lunch, I love stopping in at Home Eat To Live (Shop G01&101, Nexxus Building, 77 Des Voeux Road Central, tel: 2777 4777). Their wraps and other offerings are healthy, delicious, and good value for the quality of their ingredients. Plus, their “Wall of Ferments” makes me happy.
The superb use of organic vegetables to create deliciously light dim sum at Pure Veggie House (3/F, Coda Plaza, 51 Garden Road, Mid-Levels, tel: 2525 0552) makes it a favourite place for lunch with both vegetarian and non-vegetarian friends.
As a long-term resident of Hong Kong, I have a passion for street food and traditional noodle stalls. They are always a good bet for a fun night out with a visitor. For something more remote, we like to take visitors out to the restaurants in Po Toi O for seafood.
Weekend brunch is family time. We have a few favourites, but when I ask my kids they both exclaimed Gonpachi (4/F, Lee Garden One, 33 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay, tel: 2787 3688). They grind their own buckwheat to make soba noodles that my kids absolutely love. They can eat three plates each. I usually get the kasu salmon set.
