Diner’s Diary | World Pasta Day: eat so others can at these Hong Kong Italian restaurants in the next week
To raise money for Foodlink Foundation, which distributes unwanted food to Hong Kong’s poor, 22 restaurants will donate to the charity up to 20 per cent of what you pay for a special dish
Mark your calendars – World Pasta Day is October 25, and not only is it a good opportunity to dig into some delicious food but a chance also to help Hong Kong’s neediest.
From October 25-31, 22 Hong Kong restaurants will each serve one special pasta dish, part of the price of which will go to Foodlink Foundation, a charity that helps the city’s poor.
Among the restaurants taking part are Grissini, Ciak In The Kitchen, Eat.it, Greyhound Elements, Giando Italian Restaurant & Bar, Isola Bar & Grill, Mr & Mrs Fox, Sabatini Ristorante and Theo Mistral by Theo Randall. Participating restaurants will donate 10 per cent to 20 per cent of the price of the nominated dish to Foodlink Foundation. The prices of the special dishes range from HK$135 at Eat.it and Plat du Jour to HK$688 for a dish to share at Fishsteria.
Aurea Yung, head of operations at Foodlink Foundation, hopes the week-long event will raise awareness of the issue of food waste in the city, and also help those in need.
She says Foodlink, founded in 2001, has several initiatives. The core one is collecting hot food from hotels, corporate canteens, hospitals and international schools and redistributing it to the underprivileged.
Another is collecting unsold bread from bakeries, and vegetable trimmings – mostly from hotels – to give to low-income families for use in soups or fried rice. Foodlink Foundation also collects used room amenities from hotels and gives them to people living in hostels, and to homeless people.