Cooking seafood simply is the key to maintaining its freshness and natural subtle sweetness, and the Chinese are really pros when it comes to cooking seafood. From now onward, Toh Lee at Nikko Hong Kong is adding an array of tasty seafood dishes featuring fresh imports such as Canada crab, Alaska crab leg, tiger prawn and mantis shrimp, to satisfy even the most demanding of prawn and crab aficionados. The new dishes at Toh Lee include:
- steamed crab with egg white and Chinese yellow wine - deep-fried soft shell crabs with seaweed - pan-fried lobster with vermicelli in supreme sauce
Hyde, the popular bar and club on Lyndhurst Terrace, is known for its delicious bar snacks such as the mini sliders so we’re glad to hear that the snacks menu has now expanded into a full tapas menu, served daily from 12noon to 10pm. It’s also a bargain as you can choose three tapas for HK$99 or six dishes for HK$188. Particularly enticing options include:
- slow-cooked crispy pork belly
- baked portabello with gorgonzola
- Provencal mussels with tomato cream spicy sauce or lemongrass wine butter
The annual Le French May is set to roll out a host of exciting programs this month, with French arts and cuisine as key highlights. This year we have another interesting collaboration between gastronomy and arts. French Window at IFC Mall and renowned French crystal house Lalique are joining hands to present the best of their creations in a six-course art-sensational dinner. From now until the end of May, Lalique's latest crystal collections will be displayed in the restaurant while you enjoy chef Stéphance Haissant's refreshing six-course set dinner. Highlight of the meal is the dessert coffee biscuit with star anise meringue, which chef Haissant has taken inspiration from crystal designer Yves Klein's masterpiece "Winged Victory of Samothrace". The set dinner is priced at HK$1,188 per person or there is a four-course set lunch available at HK$558 per person. This promotion will be available throughout the whole month of Le French May.
Sometimes after a hearty starter and a heavy main course, you're have quite enough room for dessert and yet you're craving something sweet. Normally when that happens, we'd order a slightly sweeter cocktail such as a chocolate martini, hoping that will do the trick. At Felix however, you no longer have to choose between a cocktail and a dessert as the stylish bar atop The Peninsula is offering a "cooktails". Concocted by Nicolas Boussin (honoured as the best pastry chef in France in 2000) and bartender and Grand Marnier ambassador Serge Sevaux, these cooktails are light desserts in a glass, with a lower alcohol content than regular cocktails. Some examples include:
- Crazy Suzette: a crepe suzette with Grand Marnier cocktail, filled with caramel flavour
- Nougat Passion: nougat in a glass with raspberry cocktail and light honey cream
- Ruby Cubes: Grand Cosmopolitan jello cubes with vanilla ice cream
Grissini at the Grand Hyatt, one of the best Italian restaurants in Wan Chai, is introducing a special May menu this spring. Chef Marco Torre is bringing in ingredients such as red prawns from the Cantabrian coast in Spain, tomatoes and oranges from Campania in Italy, while proteins include John Dory and Iberian pork. The “Flavours of May” promotion consist of four-and five-course menus, priced at HK$720 and HK$850 respectively. Wine pairing menus are also available. The menu includes dishes such as:
- Cantabrian sea red prawn carpaccio
- bow tie pasta with smoked eel, green peas and Campanian tomatoes and oranges
- slow-roasted Iberian pork rack marinated with myrtle and fennel seeds
- strawberry parfait with wild strawberries, light yoghurt sauce and gelato
On May 7 to 8, Ovologue will be offering a special dinner menu featuring a dish named the 'special winter melon surprise'. This dish is a peeled winter melon stuffed with eight different kinds of ingredients including lily, lotus seeds, crab meat. The melon is steamed until soft and tender and the flavours of the ingredients are well-absorbed into the melon. Apart from this special dish, the set menu also includes a soup, dim sum platter, seafood main and dessert. The notable dishes are:
- baked oysters in port wine
- crispy roasted chicken in fermented rice wine
- jade dumpling with shrimp and crab roe
The winter melon surprises menu is priced at HK$398 per person and it is available to a minimum of four persons.
Mother's Day is a time to celebrate our mothers, and the restaurant manager Danny Chan of T'ang Court at Langham Hong Kong has worked together with executive chef Hin Siu to prepare a delicious Mother's Day dinner set menu for this special day. It offers an array of special dishes that are inspired by Chan's culinary memories from his childhood and this menu is dedicated to his mother. The set menu will be served on May 8 and is priced at HK$1,350 per person. Highlights from T'ang Court's Mother's Day menu include:
-smoked sliced duck breast, chilled sliced abalone with jelly fish
-stewed bamboo fungus rolls filled with bird's nest with crab meat and roe
-fried rice with duck, chicken and conpoy wrapped in lotus leaf
Guo Fu Lou is one of the best banqueting Cantonese restaurants in Tsim Sha Tsui, as well as one of the most exclusive with nine highly-coveted VIP suites. Recently, however, Guo Fu Lou has started serving three business set lunches, ranging from HK$1,300 for four people to HK$2,800 for eight. Diners are encouraged to pick their choice of mains, including favourites such as the barbecued combo or the crispy chicken or more exotic options such as spare ribs in Champagne sauce or sautéed frog legs with dried flounder; rice and noodles; and dessert.
Looking for the right restaurant to treat your mother, as well as your carnivorous father and brothers? Classic American steakhouse Morton's at Sheraton will be the best choice for your family gathering thanks to its spacious, comfortable setting and generous portion of food. This Sunday Morton's will be serving a three-course Mother's Day dinner set (HK$688 per person) from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. The set menu will offer a selection of Morton's most popular dishes including:
- Oscar steak filet with jumbo lump crab and Béarnaise sauce
- colossal shrimp alexander
- broiled salmon fillet with beurre blanc sauce
After dinner there will be two delicious desserts to choose from to complete your loving Mother's Day meal.
Summer is the season for travelling but if for whatever reason (work, kids, etc.), you can't afford to take off three months to jet-set around the world, chef Jordi Villegas is going to be taking his guests on a culinary world tour, right here at JW's California in the Marriott Hotel. Starting this week, chef Villegas will pick a country to focus on, presenting the best seasonal produce from each country. He will stay there for two weeks, before moving onto his next stop. His first destination for the next two weeks is France, where he will be serving dishes such as:
- organic egg cocotte with fresh morels and Landes asparagus
- farmed St. Marcellin cheese salad
- roasted Bresse pigeon
- classic bouillabaisse with leeks and Belle blue potatoes
After France, his next stop will be Italy, before moving onto the Middle East, South America, Greece, Spain, Germany and North America.
