Feast or Famine | The best takeaway food for retaining quality when reheating and dishes to avoid

Soups and stewed or braised dishes are easy to reheat, but many fried dishes are not because you’ll never get the coating to be as crisp as it was

Thickly sauced Chinese vegetables, such as fish fragrant aubergine, reheat beautifully

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People holding takeaway meals in Admiralty in Hong Kong. When ordering, think about the time it will take getting from the restaurant kitchen to your table before you make your choice. Photo: Sam Tsang

Published: 1:15am, 3 Dec 2020Updated: 2:14am, 3 Dec 2020

Well. It looks like I spoke (or wrote) too soon.

Soon after my last Feast or Famine column was published two weeks ago – where I wrote about how Hong Kong restaurants were doing so well that at some places, diners were not able to book a table until next year – the fourth wave of coronavirus cases started.

Now, with the number of new cases ranging from around 80 to more than a hundred each day, people are so worried about going out that they are cancelling their bookings. I’m sure if you called some of the harder-to-book places now, it wouldn’t take long to get a table.

But do you want to go out?

As much as my life revolves around food, the three meals at restaurants that I had planned for this week have been cancelled. Not by me – my friends were the ones who suggested it.

For once, I didn’t object. I still want to support restaurants but, for this week at least, it will be from my own home.

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Feast or Famine | The best takeaway food for retaining quality when reheating and dishes to avoid