2021’s best new restaurants in Hong Kong – for plant-based dishes, roast duck, curry laksa, pasta and more

Vicky Cheng’s new Chinese restaurant Wing shows how versatile the chef is; Estro’s pasta dishes are memorable and Sushi Mamoru never disappoints

The stars of Moxie’s menu are the delicious plant-based dishes, while you’ll find a comforting, leisurely meal or late-night snack at Kyoto Oden Masa

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Water bamboo salad from Moxie at Alexandra House in Central, one of Post senior food and drinks editor Susan Jung’s favourite restaurants opened in 2021. Moxie serves mainly plant-based dishes. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Published: 5:45pm, 28 Dec 2021Updated: 7:01pm, 28 Dec 2021

Don’t you just hate “best of” lists when they consist solely of one person’s view, as if their proclamation is the word of God? How can one person declare that something is “best”? The word is definitive, and leaves no room for argument.

Favourite, however, is more personal. You can’t really say a person is incorrect (although people do …) when they mention that Restaurant X is their favourite – it’s their opinion, not a proven fact.

On that note, here are some of my favourite new restaurants that I tried over the past year.

Wing

Wing is Vicky Cheng’s new Chinese restaurant, and it shows how versatile the chef is: it’s so different from the Chinese x French food he serves at VEA. The service at Wing, though, is as attentive as it is at VEA, which won the Art of Hospitality Award for Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021.

Who knew that Cheng could make such delicious versions of slightly updated classic Chinese cuisine – an extensive, changing array of cold starters, along with prawn toast (served on stinky tofu instead of the usual bread), stuffed crab shells, fried pigeons, and crispy-skinned chicken.

Crispy-skinned chicken from Wing in Sheung Wan. Photo: Wing

29/F The Wellington, 198 Wellington Street, Sheung Wan, tel: 2711 0063

Estro

I first tasted Antimo Merone’s food at 8 ½ Otto e Mezzo in Macau. His food at his Andre Fu-designed restaurant, Estro, is more personal, focusing on the chef’s Neapolitan roots.