Tapas, sushi, pizza: Hong Kong restaurant picks of a busy executive and charity worker

Jacqueline Chow tells us where she takes visitors for dim sum, and where she goes for guilty pleasures – Hong Kong milk tea and cocktail buns

She admits some of her recommendations are in fact her daughters’ favourite places

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Jacqueline Chow works with the Icicle Group and for a number of charities in Hong Kong.

Published: 6:18pm, 5 Nov 2018Updated: 5:25pm, 6 Nov 2018

Businesswoman Jacqueline Chow is an executive with marketing consultancy the Icicle Group and an active supporter of schools and charities including the Social Alpha Foundation, SAHK (formerly Spastics Association of Hong Kong), Ebenezer School for the Visually Impaired and Ebenezer New Hope School, and the YWCA preschool education department.

I am happy to try new dishes and cuisines, even though I am relatively health conscious and prefer vegetables and seafood instead of meats.

Ammo (Lower level, Asia Society, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, tel: 2537 9888) is one of my favourite restaurants. I love the high ceilings, setting and interior design. The current chef, Douglas Forrest, has created a menu that offers a great selection of tapas dishes including desserts.

It’s in the Hong Kong Asia Society, where I usually take a walk around and look at their art exhibitions before or after the meal.

The interior of Ammo restaurant in Admiralty.

Warm sliced scallop on a bed of baby artichoke and black truffle at Gaddi’s in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: Peninsula Hong Kong

For visitors new to Hong Kong, dim sum lunch is a must. My family and I love Seventh Son (3/F, The Wharney Guang Dong Hotel, 57-73 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, tel: 2892 2888). It’s always top quality and standard.