As a belated birthday gift, my friend treated me to lunch at Caprice at the Four Seasons. I knew the meal would be exceptional and I had starved myself in preparation. Towards the end of our meal, I was asked if I wanted to try the most expensive cup of coffee on the market. At $220 per shot, its...
Something violent happens to me when I’m dining with a vegetarian. Unless your religion says you can’t eat cow, sheep, monkey, crab, snake, rooster, dragon or pig, I just don’t believe you.
Lately, I’ve dined with a few vegetarians who have dictated and limited my restaurant...
We Chinese seem to have no ethics when it comes to ripping off someone else’s ideas. So why should there be any exceptions in the kitchen? Like designers, chefs like to be “inspired” by others.
“Inspired” is another term for copying. If every fashion house is pushing...
I’m still not sure if it really happened. I was sitting in a farmhouse with four of the best-known foodies in Hong Kong eating, drinking and speaking about the darker side of food while the cameras rolled. I should add that we ate really well. Chef/Owner Margaret Tsui of Cuisine X made an...
Whenever I’m in a stressful situation, I want to drop everything and bake. Going through robotic motions occupies one part of my mind, allowing the other to think clearly. My younger sister is the same way. It’s a trait of the Wong family, a crippling condition that has us coping with...
On average, I spend roughly $20 on bottled water each day. Call it a symptom of modern city paranoia, but if I could bathe in the stuff, I would. Its not that Hong Kong water is contaminated, but many of our pipes are old and rotting. If you’ve ever emptied out a water filter after a week...
I used to intentionally arrive seven minutes late to meet anyone at a restaurant. I know 15 minutes is the internationally accepted time for tardiness, but I always think that a quarter of an hour is too long to sit alone contemplating whether or not you’ve been stood up.
So there I was at...
I tell myself I will just have one drink whenever I go out, but inevitably I end up ignoring my boundaries. When Dick invited me to his company’s Wives and Significant Others outing, I told myself I’m sticking to water, as I know how I get when intoxicated. The venue was Adrenaline at...
My friend Michael is not at all interested in being in a relationship. But every girl he brings home wants to stay forever. I often wonder about guys like him. He is not the best looking guy, average in every way, the kind of person you would describe as “a nice guy.” And maybe that is...
I woke up this morning craving chicken fat. Hainan chicken rice, to be more precise. Despite what it does to your waistline, there is nothing better.
Hainan chicken rice has been claimed by many countries as their national dish. The Singaporeans say the dish is “Uniquely Singapore,”...
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