Hong Kong has some of the best restaurants in China – and they’re not all Cantonese. From Sichuan to Manchuria, Susan Jung picks 10 great regional Chinese cuisines and the best places to try them in
Hong Kong is the best culinary destination in the world, according to the influential US food magazine Saveur. The region has been named Best Culinary Destination (large international) in the magazine’s 2014 Culinary Travel Awards. “The hallmark cuisine of the city is emphatically Cantonese,” writes the magazine, and of course any visitor should try the excellent Cantonese restaurants (my current favourites are The Boss and The Chairman, both in Central). But Hong Kong also offers a good number of cuisines from the mainland. Because of the large number of Chiu Chow, Shanghainese and Hakka people living here, it’s always been fairly easy to find restaurants serving those cuisines. But as the Special Administrative Region receives more Chinese tourists from across the border, restaurants have opened serving authentic versions of the heartier and spicier dishes from places such as Beijing, Sichuan and Hunan that are not toned down (as they previously were) for local tastes. Here are 10 regional cuisines you’ll find in Hong Kong, and the restaurants to try them in.
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