Hong Kong dining: an eager home cook’s favourite restaurants, from dumplings and dim sum to Duddell’s and Dot Cod
No matter if it’s high-end dining or local street food, Katie Forster – founder of communications consultancy Katherine Amara – doesn’t discriminate when it comes to eating well. She tells us her favourite places to dine around the city
I’m an “everything” foodie. I get a kick out of the grittiest street food as well as fine dining. I’m also an eager home cook and a bit of a geek [when it comes to] making lunchboxes to take to work.
Wang Fu’s (65 Wellington Street, Central, tel: 2121 8006) Beijing dumplings are my ultimate comfort food. For dim sum, I like Maxim’s Palace (2/F, City Hall, 5-7 Edinburgh Place, Central, tel: 2511 1303) because there are plenty of options for pescatarians. It’s also the first dim sum experience I had in Hong Kong back in 1993, so there’s a lot of nostalgia eating there. I always save room for sponge cake and mango pudding.
I have been going to Dot Cod (Basement, The Landmark Prince, 10 Chater Road, Central, tel: 2810 6988) for a long time. We make a point of having family dinners there with my godfather and father. The fisherman’s pie is the best, and I’m a sucker for a plate of oysters.
I consider Posto Pubblico (28 Elgin Street, Central , tel: 2577 7160) my ‘local’. Chef Wahid and the team take such good care of me. I always order pasta. The puttanesca and farfalle are fantastic. Plastic pollution is an issue close to my heart, so their ‘no plastic straws’ policy gets a big thumbs up from me. I also love a quick meal at Pici (16 St. Francis Yard, Wan Chai, tel: 2755 5523). Their menu is 100 per cent comfort food, best washed down with an Aperol spritz.
