Three Hong Kong restaurants you must try in March, if you haven’t already
- The Sri Lankan food at newly opened Soho restaurant is fantastic, and a long-time Hong Kong chef’s Asian fusion hideaway is well worth discovering
- As for our third choice, it’s one for a special occasion
Although February was a short month, it was a great one for eating. My two favourite restaurants were at extremes in the price range – Wagyumafia is one that you’ll need to save for very special occasions, while Hotal Colombo is a place you’ll want to revisit often because it’s cheerful and well-priced. As for the third, Nhau, it’s great to have chef Que Dang back on the Hong Kong food scene. If you haven’t tried these places yet, head on down in March.
Hotal Colombo
I love this restaurant so much that I went back within a week of reviewing it. I like it so much that I’m willing to eat at 6pm – to avoid the queues, because they don’t take bookings, and it gets busy later in the evening. Chicken kothu was tongue-tingling, black pork kari was intense, and the chutneys and sambol side dishes complemented them well.
Wagyumafia
Now that I’ve eaten the famous Wagyumafia chateaubriand sando would I order it again? It’s a HK$1,000 supplement on top of an already expensive meal (the basic is HK$1,800), although it’s big enough to share between at least two. Probably not – although it is delicious; I’d rather not eat it twice, and, with the money I saved (HK$2,000!), revisit the restaurant (my version of microeconomics is probably the reason I’m not rich). The beef-focused menu serves meat from cattle raised by a small producer in Japan.