Sushi, casual Cantonese, pasta and Michelin-star fusion in Hong Kong: where a food Instagrammer likes to eat

Enrica Tong is a food lover who is ready to try anything, from street food in a simple setting to high -end fusion meals at Michelin-star restaurants

She reveals her go-to island seafood restaurant, a newly found omakase place, and where she goes to enjoy cuttlefish ball rice noodles

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Enrica Tong is a food and wine lover who documents her dining adventures on Instagram. She shares her favourite Hong Kong restaurants. Photo: Enrica Tong

Published: 12:45pm, 6 Mar 2024Updated: 5:40pm, 8 Mar 2024

Corrected [5:40pm, 8 Mar, 2024]

[5:40pm, 8 Mar, 2024]
The address of Murasaki is 181 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, not Sino Plaza, Causeway Bay. The restaurant does not have a phone number.

Avid food lover and globetrotter Enrica Tong started documenting her food journey on Instagram (instagram.com/enricatong) during the Covid-19 pandemic. She spoke to Andrew Sun.

My parents always taught me to be open-minded with food.

“You should always try something to know whether you like it or not,” they said. I have always kept that attitude. Now, I appreciate good ingredients, just as my mom, who’s a great cook, does.

Apart from Chinese, I love that Hong Kong has a range of very high quality restaurants serving different cuisines. An example is Mono (5/F, 18 On Lan Street, Central). Chef Ricardo Chaneton serves Latin American, French influenced food with interesting flavours and execution.

Mono’s red mullet with XO sauce and Peruvian oca. Photo: Instagram/@monorestaurant

Warm salad with kale, ice vegetables, figs and mizuna from Dining at Murasaki, in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Photo: James Wendlinger

A recently found treasure is Murasaki (181 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan), a kappo omakase experience to enjoy sushi with seasonal otsumami [side dishes]. I really enjoyed their mapo tofu rice with Impossible meat. You don’t feel as heavy even after 15 courses.