Hong Kong Food

Luk Kai Thong in the EmQuartier is a good but pricey Hong Kong experience

May 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Pork belly can be just excellent in the hands of the right cook, or it can be ordinary or plain boring as in most cases. Luk Kai Thong serves a melt in your mouth pork belly that passes on most criteria. Pork Belly with buns Kai Thong” means “golden chicken” in Thai, while “Luk” [Read more]

Xia Hu Chalam in Chinatown is great fish maw and Hong Kong Noodles

April 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

Xia Hu Chalam (or Xie Shark Fin) along Yaowarat road, just outside Haki Lim Hieng and close to the old market, is my first stop this evening after returning to Bangkok’s Chinatown. A centrally located street stall reputed for it’s fish maw, and they deliver. For a good number of seconds [Read more]

Tim Ho Wan is a far cry from the Michelin star

August 2, 2016 // 2 Comments

“The Long Awaited Michelin Starred Dim Sum Restaurant” is what greets you at the Tim Ho Wan branch in Terminal 21 in Bangkok. But it all started out with a hole-in-the-wall under a bridge in Hong Kong back in 2010. Against all odds they were awarded a Michelin star. Tim Ho Wan seen from [Read more]

Hong Kong in Bangkok – beef with oyster sauce and raw egg

March 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

With a mission of eating my way through Bangkok, I sometimes stumble on to surprises. My visit at Tai Heng Pochana was one of those times. I looked at the raw egg and I looked around the room, a rather big one to be honest, cantina like. Empty. I thought Hong Kong was crowded. I was the only [Read more]