Hong Kong
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”Aqua unfurls three experiences in one amid a 9,000-square-foot penthouse with unobstructed views across Victoria Harbour. The lounge, Aqua Spirit...” MORE>> |
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”In a dimly lit dining room, chef Alvin Leung, Jr., the city’s most devoted disciple of Spanish chef Ferran Adrià...” MORE>> |
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”Excellent dim sum abounds: at luxe hotels, Titanic-sized dining halls, intimate teahouses, and utterly unlikely places such as Boris. Imagine...” MORE>> |
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”On top of Victoria Peak, one of the city’s biggest tourist attractions, this handsome, sprawling place has incredible vistas and...” MORE>> |
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”If variety is what you're after, head to Café TOO, where the buffet takes an evolutionary leap with endless brushed-steel...” MORE>> |
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”Caprice, at the new Four Seasons Hong Kong, is dazzling—with inlaid glass panels and flooring, East-meets-West detailing, panoramic views of...” MORE>> |
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”This is the place to go for wonton mee: The beautifully clear broth is loaded with tender shrimp dumplings and...” MORE>> |
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”With blown-up stills from Fellini films, artisanal grappas, and Euro-looking Cantonese model-actress types puffing on cigars under a red ceiling...” MORE>> |
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”Everyone’s favorite Hong Kong dim sum spot has an array of top-grade dumplings and buns and an appealingly raucous atmosphere...” MORE>> |
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”A beautifully designed restaurant with antique Chinese furniture from the Ch'ing Dynasty and a menu of dishes like grapefruit-and-hawthornberry salad...” MORE>> |
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”...even taste some great Italian at Da Domenico, a miniature trattoria where every dandelion green, white bean, and branzino is...” MORE>> |
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”Upstairs at Din Tai Fung, I had rustic pork dumplings, sweet stir-fried pea shoots, and a terrific salad of Taiwanese...” MORE>> |
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”When it comes to sipping, grazing, and posing, Hong Kong doesn't miss a beat. Witness the action at Dragon-I, a...” MORE>> |
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”The greatest gastronomic effect of the handover was a boom in restaurants that introduced Hong Kongers to the nuances of...” MORE>> |
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”Sweeping views of Hong Kong’s dramatic cityscape...” MORE>> |
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”Set in the bawdy pub-filled district of Lan Kwai Fong...ice-cool......” MORE>> |
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”...a breezy Mediterranean- style duplex of raked-stucco and bamboo ceilings, orange leather sofas (reserve one well in advance), and a...” MORE>> |
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”Hong Kong's elite favors Grissini for its carefully prepared Milanese dishes (porcini mushroom and pumpkin risotto, braised duck with aged...” MORE>> |
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”One of Hong Kong's newest 'upstairs restaurants,' or dining rooms in private homes. The owners expertly prepare modern Shanghainese and...” MORE>> |
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”The superb chile crab served at Hong Kong's Hee Kee Fried Crab Expert, one of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's favorites....” MORE>> |
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”This glamorous space on the 28th floor of an office tower has panoramic views, handsome carved antiques imported from mainland...” MORE>> |
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”A trendy new modern-Italian restaurant with an open kitchen serving dishes like chargrilled beef tagliata with anchovy sauce, and stone-baked...” MORE>> |
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”Although Kee advertises itself as a private dining club, the path to its discreet entrance is well-trodden by Sergio Rossi...” MORE>> |
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”The menu highlights unusual ingredients like 'human-faced olive,' a greenish fruit with a sour taste, and includes dishes like chicken...” MORE>> |
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”Next door, Kokage attracts swells with its Nobu-esque interiors, well-edited sake list, and braised tuna cheeks with yuzu vanilla sauce...” MORE>> |
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”Lotus specializes in modern Thai dishes like lime-cured tuna with rose apple and green mango, or slow-braised beef cheeks in...” MORE>> |
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”Hipsters and office workers come to this industrial-style spot for kon loh mee (an egg-noodle dish from Sarawak, the Malaysian...” MORE>> |
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”Across the harbor, don't miss dim sum with a view at Man Wah....” MORE>> |
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”For something more classic, consider Maxim's Chinese Restaurant, a sprawling place beloved by old-timers who congregate here after practicing tai...” MORE>> |
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”The sweeping Rockwell Group-designed space features a dramatic ceiling decorated with sea-urchin spines, and panoramic views of the city skyline...” MORE>> |
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”In this cool, clubby dining room—part of the new Jia boutique hotel designed by Philippe Starck—the menu features imaginative Australian...” MORE>> |
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”Simultaneously austere and sumptuous, the gray-and-black room sets the tone for Gagnaire’s brainy cuisine with its herbaceous accents, citric jolts...” MORE>> |
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”Pumpernickel Café, a smoky hideaway for the literary crowd, serves rocket-fuel espresso and house-baked breads and pulses with great jazz...” MORE>> |
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”The high-wattage social circuit makes haste each evening to Restaurant Isola in the soaring, Cesar Pelli-designed IFC building. The duplex...” MORE>> |
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”All of Hong Kong wakes up with a bowl of congee (juk), a reassuringly bland, long-simmered rice gruel. At Sang...” MORE>> |
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”The Vietnamese food is very fresh and the restaura...” MORE>> |
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”In addition to French celebrity chef Alain Ducasse’s modern French menu, Spoon has a jazzy Tony Chi design featuring eel...” MORE>> |
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”The Peninsula is famous for its Starck-designed, 28th-floor restaurant Felix; its tea tutorials; and the chef's table at Gaddi. But...” MORE>> |
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”Eating is serious business in Causeway Bay, where you can sample beef noodles in Swiss sauce at Tai Ping Koong...” MORE>> |
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”Travelers nostalgic for Hong Kong's colonial glamour of yore inevitably end up at Repulse Bay hotel, at the Verandah. Here...” MORE>> |
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Victoria City Seafood Restaurant
Sun Hung Kai Centre, Second Floor Hong Kong
30 Harbour Rd., Wanchai ”This might seem like another loud, overlit Hong Kong dining hall, but the classic Cantonese cooking here is the best...” MORE>> |
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”At WasabiSabi, sip passion-fruit 'saketinis' and snack on grilled spicy fish roe, gazing out on a catwalk flanked by a...” MORE>> |
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”Hidden on the 12th floor of a shopping tower in the frenetic Times Square district, Water Margin takes Hong Kong...” MORE>> |
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”Several regional styles flourish under one roof at Whampoa Gourmet Place, a new eating mall in a high-rise residential enclave...” MORE>> |
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”The iconic Sichuanese don don mian (sesame noodles) are so coveted here that servings are rationed: one per customer. ...” MORE>> |
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”Chef Jacky Yu designed the lipstick-red dining room and the pan-Asian menu, with dishes like Sichuan spicy pork noodles and...” MORE>> |
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”This café in the JIA hotel offers classics from all over Southeast Asia, like Hainanese chicken rice, a Singaporean dish...” MORE>> |
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”The hotel's seafood restaurant, Yu, shouldn't be overlooked: its seafood platter is phenomenal....” MORE>> |
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”Meanwhile, Yung Kee Restaurant lures diners with the Cantonese equivalent of the brawnyfare one associates with a weathered French bistro...” MORE>> |
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