Authentic dim sum, Thai salads, spicy dishes: an Italian foodie’s most-loved restaurants in Hong Kong
- Antonio Postacchini was slow to embrace Asian cooking when he arrived in Hong Kong in 1996. The Italian has made up for that since
- He tells us where he goes to eat tom yum goong, dim sum, and authentic Indonesian food at a place that’s ‘not even a real restaurant’
Antonio Postacchini was involved in the trading of Italian products – from furniture, footwear to clothing – until he decided to expand into food and started Italian Foodie Corner. His direct-to-consumer portal offers quality products from his hometown Italian region of Marche.
My food business is two years old. My aim is to let people try the real Italian food. I’m not working with big companies wanting to make big money. I want quality. I’m also not squeezing my suppliers, because most of them are farmers and they work hard. That’s why I think this business will probably never become big.
I moved to Hong Kong in 1996. At first, I wouldn’t eat anything other than Italian. I didn’t want to try anything, but now I feel sad because my mind was so narrow. Now, I think Hong Kong is the best city for food. I learned to eat everything – Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese.
I live in Discovery Bay, so usually I go to the Thai and Korean restaurants there. At Koh Tomyums (Shop 105B, 1/F, D’Deck, Discovery Bay, tel: 2987 0767), I’ll have the tom yum goong, then the grilled pork neck along with two or three spicy Thai salads with glass noodles, and maybe the Thai-style fish. I love it.
At First Korean (Shop 102B, D’Deck, Discovery Bay, tel: 2987 9123), I usually have the barbecue, the bibimbap and kimchi pancake. A lot of Italians don’t like spicy food but my wife is Indonesian so she pushed me to eat spicy, step by step. Now when I go to China, I can eat Sichuan that some Chinese people find too spicy.