Someone wrote:
: Leah S. wrote:
: > Food -- I'm after the best that Hong Kong can offer, especially : > things that can't be gotten elsewhere, both in street food and in : > fine dining. All cuisines, though Asian ones in particular.
: Don't bother with non-Chinese restaurants as long as you're with at : least one other person.
: The Maxim chain has a bunch of restaurants with names like Peking : Garden, Shanghai Garden, Hunan Garden (you get the idea). The food : is consistently very good (better Peking duck than Beijing, for : instance), but not necessarily inexpensive. The tourist paper at : the airport usually has an ad with all these restaurants listed.
: If you're adventuresome, you can take a ferry to Cheng Chau island : (1 hr), but seafood from the vendors near the wharf, and walk 25 : meters and hand it to one of the sidewalk restaurants. Bring : wet-dry packets.
: (In my opinion, most places will be around after 1997.)
I am sure these places will still be around. However, will
they be able to maintain the standard? For example, the
China World Hotel, Traders Hotel, and the Shangri-La in Beijing
all belong to the Shangri-La "group", yet the service is nowhere
close to the kind of service you get at the Shangri-Las in Hong
Kong. Last time I was there (August 1995), the rates for China
World is comparable to the Island Shangri-La at Pacific Place,
but the food was so much better at Island Shangri-La.
If your budget allows, be sure to have tea at the lobby at the
Penisula. This hotel is the epitome of "colonial Hong Kong" -
the atmosphere will not be the same after 1997.
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: Richard Hintz mailto:[email removed] : University of California http://www.ucop.edu/~hintz
From [email removed] Mon Nov 18 16:15:51 EST 1996
Article: 28838 of rec.food.restaurantsHong Kong