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One of our friends from Hong Kong made a booking at Betty’s Kitschen, brainchild of Alan Yau who created Hakkisan and Busaba Eat Thai in London. Having been to both back home we knew Betty’s was going to be good and looking at the menu we got rather excited. Rabbithole Coffee and Roaster is a coffee shop with a twist. Not only does owner Mike Fung roast his own coffee beans, import beans and sell coffee to the public, they also hold classes in how to make coffee. Little did you know there were more ways to make coffee than what Starbucks taught you! To get the skinny on Hong Kong’s food scene we bought a Time Out Food Edition hoping that it would steer us in the direction of innovative food. We found Mana! a fast slow food concept by Hong Kong’s ‘ecopreneur’ Bobsy, the man behind Bookworm Café on Lamma Island and Life Café in Soho. Along with his business partner, Christian G. Mongendre, also a French-trained chef, they have created a healthy eating, eco-conscious joint featuring reclaimed wooden furniture, water saving loos, rough concrete walls, Buddha statues, raw cakes and various mantras set into the floor. The food they’re serving is a relatively new idea in HK; raw, vegetarian, healthy and eco-friendly. With every second shop selling MSG laden noodles, rice and meat dishes it’s a breath of fresh air to come across something like this. And healthy food can’t be bad, right? On our quest to gather as much information and experience as possible on operating a food business we were invited to spend some time with Auntie Edwina and her husband who run The Golden Leaf Restaurant & Pub in Sheung Tsuen, Hong Kong. Auntie Claudia and Uncle KK had arranged for us to meet at the ferry terminal. We checked out of Hong Kong, boarded the hydrofoil ferry and skipped across the Pearl River Delta to Macau 澳門. |
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