New Hong Kong restaurant The Demon Celebrity sees Celebrity Cuisine’s Fu Gor team up with the Demon Chef Alvin Leung – here’s why they did it
- Celebrity Cuisine’s Cheng Kam-fu says he has known Alvin Leung for years and it was the Demon Chef who suggested they open a restaurant together
- The menu is marked with signatures by both chefs and other dishes they have collaborated on, such as stuffed shishito pepper with scallop and conpoy
Chef Cheng Kam-fu has been personal chef to some of Hong Kong’s biggest tycoons, including Ronald Li Fook-shiu, founder and former chairman of the Hong Kong stock exchange, and Lai Sun Group founder Lim Por-yen.
When he opened his flagship restaurant, Celebrity Cuisine, in 2007, it was an instant hit with Hong Kong diners. After all, who doesn’t want to eat like a celebrity – or tycoon?
Celebrity Cuisine quickly became known for its menu of exquisitely executed family recipes such as sweet and sour pork, his eponymous fried rice and pi-pa tofu, as well as luxurious items such as his signature bird’s-nest-stuffed chicken wing, and sea cucumber with goose web.
The restaurant on the first floor of the Lan Kwai Fong Hotel @ Kau U Fong in Central, on Hong Kong Island, got its first Michelin star in 2010 and its second in 2011. Six years later, it was dropped back to one.
