Congee, curry, croissants and coffee: where a Hong Kong food guide founder eats out
- WOM food guide co-founder Fergus Fung likes breakfasts, late-night fry-ups and quite a lot in between
- He’ll eat a healthy lunch but his guilty treat is Japanese skewers and deep fried food at a place where lots of chefs like to eat
Fergus Fung Se-goun is the executive director of Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong Group and a district councillor for the city’s Southern district. He was a co-founder of the WOM (Word of Mouth) food guide.
My parents have always been quite conservative in what they ate. I started discovering food when I was in the UK at boarding school, mainly because the food at school was so bad.
Later I worked in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York and got a feel for different cuisines. In those cities, I used to use the Zagat guide and I realised there wasn’t anything like it in Hong Kong. We actually wrote to Zagat to ask if they were coming here and they said no, so we started our own WOM guide.
I go a lot to Neighborhood(61-63 Hollywood Road, Central, tel: 2617 0891). It’s like comfort food there. In addition to the regular dishes, you can always ask chef David Lai to come up with something fresh or special and he’ll source it.
