Favourite Hong Kong restaurants of Jason Cohen, hotel consultant: from Little Bao to Ho Lee Fook

Hongkonger Cohen loves Cantonese food: dim sum, roast goose, typhoon shelter crab and funky bao. He also enjoys Japanese roast meat and sushi, and has a soft spot for a decent Indian curry

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Jason Cohen, hotel consultant for the Fleming Hong Kong and executive director of Ce La Vi Group.

Published: 6:18pm, 14 Nov 2017Updated: 10:35am, 15 Nov 2017

I definitely like food and am willing to eat and try anything at anytime. Being a Hong Kong boy, I love Chinese food. Given the choice, I’ll generally choose Asian food over Western. I don’t like anything too fancy or too complicated, and much prefer honest simple dishes.

Ho Lee Fook (1-5 Elgin Street, SoHo, tel: 2810 0860) always amazes me as the food is outstanding, with a great atmosphere, and you can eat until you are extremely full and not spend too much money.

Kam’s Roast Goose (Po Wah Commercial Centre, 226 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, tel: 5408 7740) is definitely a favourite. It was opened by one of the Yung Kee family’s brothers so they have many, many years of tradition and experience at cooking roast goose.

Little Bao (66 Staunton Street, SoHo, tel: 2194 0202) is great. Even though it is experimental, it’s reasonably priced and very tasty and I think it’s a unique experience for Hong Kong.

May Chow, chef owner at Little Bao. Photo: Paul Yeung

Che’s Cantonese (4/F The Broadway, 54-62 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, tel: 2528 1123) is amazing for dim sum and I think one of Hong Kong’s best.

The New Punjab Club (34 Wyndham Street, Central, tel: 2368 1223) has some of the best Indian food I have eaten. It is really nice that they use top quality meats for their dishes as this is generally not the norm for Indian restaurants.