US$3 ‘This This Rice’: iconic bargain Hong Kong take-out 2-dish meal fit for city’s top US diplomat and maybe even banking titans too
- Popular This This Rice has helped hard-pressed Hongkongers through tough times
- US Consul General Gregory May pledges to post more SAR discoveries online
Financial titans have converged on Hong Kong for the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit at the Four Seasons Hotel in Central.
The two-day event will include talks among global bankers and fund managers. It will also involve much wining and dining.
For an authentic taste of the city, however, delegates could follow in the footsteps of Gregory May, the US Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau.
May sent social media into a spin when he announced that he had at last tried “two-dishes rice,” a popular lunch-box meal in Hong Kong comprising rice with two Cantonese sides. In English it is often called a rice box.
Selling from between US$3 and US$5, the boxes saw a resurgence during the pandemic, particularly during the dine-in ban - one of the government’s strict Covid-fighting measures - that was eased in October.