https://www.scmp.com/rss/323550/feed Sit back, relax and take a bite out of Hong Kong with Good Eating magazine – your authoritative guide to fine dining in Asia’s culinary capital en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com “I’ve always had a passion and curiosity for food,” says Barry Quek, head chef at Whey in Hong Kong, a contemporary European fine dining restaurant infused with proudly Singaporean influences. Born and raised in the Lion City, Quek cut his teeth at some of the world’s most notable fine dining restaurants, spending time at Singapore outposts of French banner names Joël Robuchon and Les Amis. In the years since, Quek earned a legion of loyal fans across Hong Kong with Beet, a deceptively simple... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3205067/inside-chef-barry-queks-culinary-vision-whey-hong-kong-contemporary-european-fine-dining-restaurant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3205067/inside-chef-barry-queks-culinary-vision-whey-hong-kong-contemporary-european-fine-dining-restaurant?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:16 +0000 “Being a chef is one of those careers that really draws you in, it’s never something particularly planned – at least, it wasn’t for me.” San Francisco-born chef Mario Tolentino’s passion for food began at an early age and despite carving out his reputation in Michelin-approved establishments across the United States, his move east isn’t an altogether surprising one. “Growing up, there was a lot of Cantonese food as well as Vietnamese and Thai. It’s something I’ve always been drawn to, and... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3178342/how-food-networks-chopped-winner-mario-tolentino-firing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3178342/how-food-networks-chopped-winner-mario-tolentino-firing?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 May 2022 08:17:40 +0000 Marcello Scognamiglio hails from the sunny Italian coast of Naples and grew up in a culture surrounded by Mediterranean flavours from southern Campania. This, naturally, played a formative role in his passion for the culinary arts. “I think most chefs agree that the inspiration for creation comes from our memories. In my case, it would be my childhood that I spent in Naples and the type of ingredients I think about will be things like tomatoes, seafood, fresh ingredients,” says Scognamiglio,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3159786/hong-kongs-hottest-chef-meet-marcello-scognamiglio-italian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3159786/hong-kongs-hottest-chef-meet-marcello-scognamiglio-italian?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Dec 2021 02:00:15 +0000 Born and raised in Italy, Andrea Tarini developed a passion for cooking from an early age. He was greatly influenced by his grandmother, who every Sunday would cook him and his family meals with ingredients freshly picked from the farm she worked at. 15 new restaurants to try in Hong Kong this month This memory from his youth taught Tarini the importance of the ingredients that go into making any dish. Today, the quality of the ingredients, as well as the preservation of the original flavours,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3150562/radical-chic-executive-chef-andrea-tarini-icc-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3150562/radical-chic-executive-chef-andrea-tarini-icc-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:50:26 +0000 Lisa Cam Lisa Cam It has been long lamented by many Chinese chefs that a good apprentice is hard to find. With many of the younger generation tertiary-educated and generally expecting higher salaries, the hard work and harsh environment of a large kitchen can be a turn-off for some. But a new generation of Chinese chefs has started making waves in Hong Kong. Thirty-four-year-old Jayson Tang is the executive Chinese chef of JW Marriott Hong Kong, whose Chinese restaurant, Man Ho, received its first Michelin star... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3131487/meet-hong-kongs-new-kings-cantonese-cuisine-how-young-blood?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/3131487/meet-hong-kongs-new-kings-cantonese-cuisine-how-young-blood?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:33:48 +0000 It has not been the best year for the food and beverage industry in Hong Kong – starting with the protests that erupted from June 2019 and discouraged diners from eating out for much of the year, followed by the coronavirus pandemic, which brought the city to a standstill in late January. There have been plenty of restaurant closures with footfall to some previously popular dining districts dwindling fast. “We closed a few restaurants on Elgin Street as they were commercially not viable,” says... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/3090109/which-hong-kong-restaurants-closed-coronavirus-and-how-will?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/3090109/which-hong-kong-restaurants-closed-coronavirus-and-how-will?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:00:08 +0000 We arrive half an hour early for our appointment with Gourmet Dining Group’s managing director, Michelle Ma Chan, so we wait in her French garden patio of Épure Café, which is outside the fine-dining restaurant Épure, by the harbour front on the fourth level of Ocean Terminal. The café is in the throes of afternoon tea, and we notice how attentive, efficient and polite its waiting staff are. Clearly pleased to hear this, Ma Chan says that one of her most important investments is in her... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/travel-food/article/2141095/fine-dining-restaurant-arbor-opens-h-queen-central-month?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/travel-food/article/2141095/fine-dining-restaurant-arbor-opens-h-queen-central-month?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:00:15 +0000 When we meet Bonnae Gokson in her flagship restaurant SEVVA, atop Landmark Prince’s Building, it is a midweek lunch time and the restaurant is packed. “We are busy all the time,” says Gokson, owner and creative force behind this stylish restaurant in Central. “I believe that our guests enjoy good quality food.” SEVVA, pronounced “savour” - meaning to experience the full taste or flavour of something - is inspired by the word “seva” in Sanskrit, meaning “to serve from the heart”, and that is... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/2119959/how-sevva-started-hong-kongs-queen-cakes-bonnae-gokson?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/leisure/article/2119959/how-sevva-started-hong-kongs-queen-cakes-bonnae-gokson?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:00:00 +0000 When you ask any Malaysian or Singaporean living in Hong Kong where their go-to restaurant in Hong Kong is when they crave nasi lamek, laksa, rendang and other dishes from their homeland, more often than not they say Café Malacca. Café Malacca’s menu is filled with Singaporean and Malaysian favourites, such as Penang char koay teow, a stir-fried flat rice noodle dish with prawns, Chinese sausage, chives and bean sprouts, and mee goreng, spicy Indian-style fried yellow noodles with prawns,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2109639/cafe-malaccas-mrs-poon-keeps-tastes-malaysia-and-singapore?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2109639/cafe-malaccas-mrs-poon-keeps-tastes-malaysia-and-singapore?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Sep 2017 23:48:59 +0000 Restaurateur Kim Minards came to Hong Kong 20 years ago as a backpacker. “I worked as a waitress, and then went off backpacking again before returning to Hong Kong,” she says. In 2005 - along with her husband, Robert Cooper - Minards founded restaurant group Enoteca Group. “Rob was also a backpacker. We worked for different establishments up until 14 years ago. He was working at The Bayou and I was working in neighbouring Staunton’s in SoHo. We were managers of those two bars and that’s how we... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2099299/restaurateur-kim-minards-talks-about-enoteca-groups-longevity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2099299/restaurateur-kim-minards-talks-about-enoteca-groups-longevity?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:02:57 +0000 Dragon Noodles Academy (DNA)’s opening in November 2016 raised the number of brands in Dining Workshop’s stable of restaurants to three. The year had earlier seen the advent of Urban Park and Yum Cha both opening outlets in Tsim Sha Tsui and Central. The restaurant group’s founder and director is Shanghai-born Wang Zhongying, who moved to Hong Kong 25 years ago, when she organised cultural education exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong. “I used to arrange educational tours to Hong Kong... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2086311/dragon-noodles-academys-adds-celebration-chinese-culture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2086311/dragon-noodles-academys-adds-celebration-chinese-culture?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Apr 2017 03:55:04 +0000 The opening of Italian-American eatery, Carbone, in Hong Kong two years ago heralded New York restaurateur Mario Carbone’s first eatery outside the United States. The 36-year-old already has 11 restaurants within his six brands across New York City, with one in Las Vegas. He’s also opening more restaurant brands at the famed Four Season’s site in Manhattan later this year and early next with his partners Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick. With so much expansion and such a concentration of his... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2046030/carbone-founder-mario-carbone-gives-hong-kong-taste-new-york?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2046030/carbone-founder-mario-carbone-gives-hong-kong-taste-new-york?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:30:00 +0000 Fiona Kotur is a ball of energy. With her sunny disposition and elegant New York style, she has a way of lighting up the room - or, in our case, a two-storey restaurant. We are at DJAPA, Hong Kong’s first Brazilian-Japanese fusion restaurant, the latest venture to open under the Le Comptoir umbrella, which has a string of popular eateries including Bibo, The Ocean and TRi. The restaurant could also double as a boutique art gallery, with its sizable collection of artworks by renowned artists.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2046050/designer-fiona-kotur-shares-lunch-hong-kongs-first-brazilian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2046050/designer-fiona-kotur-shares-lunch-hong-kongs-first-brazilian?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:15:00 +0000 When it comes to restaurants, Yenn Wong cannot put a foot wrong. From the opening of her first restaurant in the city, 208 Duecento Otto, in 2010 - still going strong - to the most recent, Potato Head/Kaum, closely followed by Rhoda in Sai Ying Pun, the magic formula goes from strength to strength. Wong puts it down to creative collaborations and enjoying what they do. "What drives us is our creative collaborations and we really enjoy what we do and we can stay creative and relevant to the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2010680/join-me-yenn-wongs-strategy-collaborating-others-restaurant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2010680/join-me-yenn-wongs-strategy-collaborating-others-restaurant?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:00:45 +0000 Quick with a smile and a laugh, Sue Chang epitomises the quintessential girl next door. As a Korean-Chinese power blogger, adept at capturing the attention of her 412,000 subscribers and followers across her Instagram, YouTube and Facebook page, Chang's biggest appeal is her friendly online persona. She's the girl you want to hang out with over the weekend - or in this case, over lunch. So it's fitting to learn that her favourite cuisine is whatever her mum's cooking that day. "I love eating... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2010698/counting-calories-korean-chinese-power-blogger-sue-chang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/good-eating/article/2010698/counting-calories-korean-chinese-power-blogger-sue-chang?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:00:30 +0000