China Food and Travel Guide
China holds some of the deepest and most varied food traditions in the world, and no single trip, or single page, can do justice to all of it. What this page does instead is collect the destinations I have actually visited and written up, organized by city or region, with each one linking through to a full guide. It will keep growing as new trips get covered.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of China with its own distinct culinary identity, built on Cantonese tradition and shaped by decades of international influence. It compresses an unusual range of eating and drinking into a very small area, which makes it one of the easiest places in Asia to experience several completely different dining styles in a single day. The guide covers a precise omakase counter, a theatrical modern Chinese restaurant, a loud local seafood kitchen, refined Cantonese fine dining, a speakeasy built inside a former prison, and the views and harbor activities that define the city.
- Where to Eat: Sushi Taka for omakase, Mott 32 for modern Chinese cooking and Peking duck, Tung Po Kitchen for the loud, local dai pai dong experience, Yat Tung Heen at Eaton HK for refined Cantonese, and Busan Night for traditional Korean food.
- Where to Drink: Bar 001, a speakeasy set inside the former prison grounds of the Tai Kwun heritage compound.
- What to Do: The view from Victoria Peak, a ride on the double-decker tram along Hong Kong Island, the nightly Symphony of Lights over the harbor, plus the Star Ferry, Temple Street Night Market, the Dragon’s Back trail and Man Mo Temple.
More China Guides to Come
This page will be updated as new guides go live. If there is a city or region you would like to see covered next, from Cantonese heartland cities to the wider food regions of the country, let me know, and it may well be the next one on the list.