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Bernice Chan

With the Tuen Ng, or Dragon Boat Festival just around the corner, some people are gearing up for boat races around Hong Kong, while others are looking forward to indulging in rice dumplings.
This year, many hotels and restaurants have jumped aboard the healthy food bandwagon and are offering vegetarian and vegan rice dumplings.
Here is a selection, both savoury and sweet:

Tsui Hang Village
New this year at the Cantonese restaurant are two vegan rice dumpling options. One is the dried morel mushroom and multigrain rice dumpling (HK$96), full of fibre-rich ingredients such as quinoa, chickpeas, chestnuts, dried morel mushrooms, cordyceps flower, and seaweed.
Another sweet creation by Tsui Hang Village this year is golden kumquat rice dumpling (HK$53), featuring candied kumquat, house-made kumquat purée, and goes well with house-made kumquat honey sauce.
22/F Lee Theatre, 99 Percival Street, Causeway Bay, tel: 2409 4822
2/F New World Tower, 16-18 Queens Road Central, tel: 2524 2012
5/F Miramar Shopping Centre, 132 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2376 2882

Spring Moon
The Peninsula Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant Spring Moon has two vegetarian dumplings this year and they are sold in pairs. The first is a lotus seed paste glutinous rice dumpling, the other, created by Spring Moon dim sum chef Cheuk Ka-ching, is a red date paste and lychee glutinous rice dumpling (HK$288 for the pair).
Cheuk was inspired by the traditional Chinese dessert of lychee red date soup that, according to Chinese medicine, is good for circulation. The lychee was chosen as the fruit flavour remains strong even after intense boiling and can easily be infused in the glutinous rice.
1/F The Peninsula Hong Kong, Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2696 6760

Hoi King Heen  
Leung Fai-hung, the executive Chinese chef at the Cantonese restaurant at the InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong is offering a sweet vegetarian option this year, the red bean paste glutinous rice dumpling (HK$98).
B2/F InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, 70 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, tel: 2731 2883

Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees 
The Chinese restaurant in Kowloon City has a very healthy and decadent rice dumpling this year, with five grains, black truffle and wild mushrooms (HK$108). The vegan friendly rice dumpling has no additives or sugar, and contains grains such as Job’s tears, oats, Gordon Euryale seed, soya bean and buckwheat blended with wild mushrooms and black truffle. The rice dumpling is rich in fibre, protein, calcium, manganese, potassium, phosphorus and magnesium.
Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees, 199 Kowloon City Road, To Kwa Wan, tel: 2126 1960

Yan Toh Heen
At the InterContinental Hong Kong, the Cantonese restaurant Yan Toh Heen has a creative and healthy organic apple and black rice dumping (HK$218) this year. It features organic apples from New Zealand combined with black glutinous rice and contains no additives or sugar.
Lower Level, InterContinental Hong Kong, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2313 2323




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Dragon Boat Festival is a time of boat races and eating glutinous rice dumplings
Here are five Hong Kong restaurants offering healthy vegetarian and vegan dumplings



Dragon Boat Festival is a time of boat races and eating glutinous rice dumplings. Here are five Hong Kong restaurants offering healthy vegetarian and vegan dumplings.


Dragon Boat Festival

Five restaurants serving vegan and vegetarian rice dumplings for Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong

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Dragon Boat Festival is a time of boat races and eating glutinous rice dumplings

Here are five Hong Kong restaurants offering healthy vegetarian and vegan dumplings