{"id":21067,"date":"2018-07-14T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=21067"},"modified":"2018-07-14T21:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T21:51:43","slug":"eating-and-drinking-in-hong-kong-mott32-ho-lee-fook-divino-luk-yu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/restaurants\/eating-and-drinking-in-hong-kong-mott32-ho-lee-fook-divino-luk-yu","title":{"rendered":"Eating and drinking in Hong Kong: Mott32, Ho Lee Fook, Divino, Luk Yu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Luk Yu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continuing my reviews of the Hong Kong dining and boozing scene (I started with fab wine bars Le Cabane and Le Quinze Vins), here are a few mentions.<\/p>\n

First of all, a proper old school tea house: Luk Yu<\/a>. This is a large art deco-style building, and since the 1930s it has served tea and dim sum with no frills. You don’t stay long here (and you can’t: we got a table for an hour – this is a popular place), but the dim sum is just lovely.<\/p>\n

We went to a couple of other tea house chains in Kowloon, and ate very well for virtually nothing.<\/p>\n

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Ho Lee Fook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next, two restaurants quite similar in their approach. Ho Lee Fuk<\/a> is a bustling basement Chinese-fusion restaurant that is packed with tourists and ex-pat westerners. This is not authentic Chinese, but the cooking is excellent, with lovely flavours, beautifully presented. I liked the wine list too: conventional and not long, but with some nice bottles from good producers. We chose the Benanti Etna Rosso<\/strong>, which was fresh, nicely defined and quite elegant. Cocktails were excellent.<\/p>\n

The downside? They turn the tables ruthlessly here and operate a no booking policy for parties of fewer than 5. This makes good business sense, but it feels like you are being used a bit. You are paying special night out prices for a table you only have for 90 minutes. Bill was HKD1817 (\u00a3175), and we didn’t go crazy. Overall: this is worth a splurge because the food is so good, but it’s testing the margins of value.<\/p>\n

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Mott 32: dining room and cocktails<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mott32<\/a> is similar, in that it’s Chinese fusion cooking, but it’s done even better. This is a fancy joint at the bottom of the Standard Charter building near Central MTR, and the dining room just looks beautiful. We managed to snag a booking at 2130 on a Sunday evening, phoning up mid afternoon, and it was thoroughly worth it. I really enjoyed our meal. We began with cocktails, which were creative and delicious. Then a succession of dishes, each perfectly executed and compelling. And tasty as.<\/p>\n

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Deserts were pretty spectacular, too. This is a glitzy, high-end place aiming at the luxury dining market, and it’s brilliantly done.<\/p>\n

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Our wine choice from a good but not great list was the fab Petalos from Alvaro Palacios: fresh, floral and fruit driven.<\/p>\n

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Finally, DiVino. We stumbled across this Italian wine bar\/bistro, and had an enjoyable afternoon. We ate a little bit, but mostly drank. The wine list here is pretty good, with Italy a strength, as you’d expect. The staff were very good, and handled the wines well on a very hot, humid afternoon, using ice judiciously.<\/p>\n

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We started with Massolino’s Langhe Nebbiolo 2013. I really love Massolino. It’s a beautiful expression of Nebbiolo.<\/p>\n

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Then it was off to Tuscany for the Ca Marcanda Promis 2015 from Gaja. This is ripe but focused: a really nice balanced wine that tastes like a slightly amped up high-end Bordeaux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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