Hong Kong’s most impressive Lunar New Year desserts: from the return of Kowloon Shangri-La’s 999.9 Prestige gold bar to Ying Jee Club’s coconut milk and Ceylon black tea delight
Lunar New Year provides the perfect excuse to indulge, and Kowloon Shangri-La, Ying Jee Club, The Cakery, Cuisine Cuisine and other top notch Hong Kong outlets have just the sweet treats to usher in the Year of the Ox
Lunar New Year is the most important holiday on the lunar calendar. It signifies new beginnings, is heralded by many festivities and is a period mired in tradition. It’s a time when people read up on their Chinese zodiac and busy themselves with auspicious totems and animals to boost their luck for the coming year. One of the traditions that has never changed is bearing gifts when visiting someone’s house.
An all-time favourite present is puddings, which phonetically sounds the same as the words “above” or “higher” in Chinese, signifying achieving new heights in one’s career, studies or business.
Kowloon Shangri-La’s 24-karat gold dusted pudding is back – and is truly the ultimate in luxurious puddings. Meanwhile, Michelin-starred Ying Jee Club and JW Marriott’s Chinese restaurant Man Ho excel in traditional recipes.
Vegans also have many choices this year as Cuisine Cuisine and The Cakery have prepared scrumptious plant-based options as well. Here’s our shortlist of the year’s most notable puddings.
Shang Palace
Want to give the ultimate gift this Lunar New Year? For those who are out to impress big time with a pudding, then the Shangri-La Master Chef Series has brought back the 999.9 Prestige Golden Bar Pudding this year – priced HK$3,888 (US$501). Fashioned into the shape of a gold bar, the pudding is coated entirely in edible gold. Of course, the full range of turnip, taro, water chestnut as well as other festive puddings are available as well.
Lower Level, Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel, 64 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Kiki Noodle
