Noodles, steak, ‘mind-blowing’ pasta: where a food influencer eats in Hong Kong

Social media influencer Yuki Maryrose Leung likes to share her food picks through her popular Instagram account

Born and bred in Hong Kong, she enjoys Cantonese food, from cart noodles to char siu, and knows all the best places to take tourists when they visit

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Yuki Maryrose Leung is a food influencer. She reveals where she eats “unbelievable” noodles, steak, and “mind-blowing” pasta, and other dishes, in Hong Kong. Photo: Yuki Maryrose Leung

Published: 6:15pm, 19 Oct 2023

Yuki Maryrose Leung is a media production coordinator and food influencer (@yukimaryrosel). She spoke to Andrew Sun.

I’m Hong Kong born and bred and grew up eating delicious, simple local foods. I was also very lucky, as my mum works as a pui yuet (confinement nurse) and is able to cook a very wide range of nourishing and delicious traditional dishes.

For lunch, I love Sun Kee Cart Noodles (Shop B, V Point, 49 Tang Lung Street, Causeway Bay. Tel: 2573 5438) and their well-marinated ingredients and special home-made chilli paste. Also, I can choose as many items as I want.

I also enjoy Samsen (68 Stone Nullah Lane, Wan Chai. Tel: 2234 0001) and their unbelievable Wagyu boat noodles, and Zagin Soba (7 Gough Street, Central. Tel: 2447 1398) for an incredible tori paitan (thick chicken broth) ramen.

Wagyu boat noodles at Thai restaurant Samsen. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

For dinner, Uncle Fong’s (various locations including 14/F, The L Place, 139 Queen’s Road Central. Tel: 2338 1788) Chongqing spicy hotpot has a rich, buttery broth packed with chillies, spices and Sichuan numbing peppers. It’s like how they make it in Chongqing.