Best White Truffle Promotions in Hong Kong

‘Tis the season for the fragrant white truffle, and our city is positively drowning in promotions for this rare and pricy Italian delicacy. Get your fix at a traditional Italian eatery, or go bold and have them with some rice and teppanyaki. The choice is yours, and you can start as early as breakfast.

Bourgeois Brekkie

Start your day on the right track with an eggs Benny, white truffle style.

Amber
Chef Richard Ekkebus has added an extra something to the French fine dine’s breakfast menu. Amber’s new white truffle breakfast dishes include shaved white truffles from Alba—the most highly prized region for the delicacy—served on eggs Benedict or a frittata. The Taiyouran-brand Japanese free-range eggs come from chickens fed on a deluxe diet of leaves and natural herbs. All white truffle breakfast dishes contain four grams of the good stuff shaved right at your table. The white truffle breakfast will be served throughout November and December.
7/F, The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, 15 Queen’s Rd. Central, 2132-0066.

Asian Infusion

Who says white truffles only go with western-style dishes? Turns out you can have them with rice, too.

Inakaya
Teppanyaki chef Lawrence Mok pairs these Italian treats with fresh Japanese seafood in order to create some totally unique truffle dishes. Chef Mok’s delicacies include foie gras with white truffle, Japanese scallops in pumpkin sauce with white truffle and lobster in butter sauce with white truffle, as well as teppanyaki dishes with a good dose of the fragrant fungus. At $158 per gram of truffle, the dishes are served throughout November.
Shop A, 101/F, International Commerce Centre, 1 Austin Rd. West, West Kowloon, 2972-2666.

Kazuo Okada
From now until December 2, Kazuo Okada will launch a six-course black and white truffle menu with dishes such as slow-cooked scallop, steamed monkfish, chawanmushi or grilled beef paired with either white truffle shavings or black truffle sauce. Executive chef Hirofumi Imamura will be charging an extravagant $2,580 per head for the meal.
5/F, The Harbourfront Landmark, 11 Wan Hoi St., Hung Hom, 3746-2722.

Man Wah
From now until December 14, Michelin-starred restaurant Man Wah will be celebrating the season by adding this precious ingredient to its well-loved Cantonese cuisine and creating the restaurant’s first-ever white truffle menu. Chef Lee Man-sing will present three truffle dishes for you to munch your way through: braised e-fu noodles, white truffle, lobster and cream sauce ($1,148), pan-fried scallop with white truffle, scrambled duck egg and crab coral sauce ($1,168), and braised rice casserole, white truffle, wild fungus and dried seafood ($1,168). These a la carte items are available for both lunch and dinner, so you can head over and get your fix any time of day.
25/F, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, 5 Connaught Rd. Central, 2825-4003.