Hong Kong’s best Chiu Chow fish balls and egg waffles – a long-time food blogger’s recommendations
- Hong Kong food blogger Gary Suen says Shau Kei Wan is home to both the city’s best Chiu Chow fish balls and egg waffles
- For a showcase of the finest dishes Hong Kong has to offer, his advice is to head to a restaurant on Wellington Street in Central
Information technology consultant Gary Suen was born in Hong Kong and studied in the United States. As a food blogger, he has his own site and is on various channels using the handle @g4gary.
My “culinary epiphany” came during university, where many friends were big foodies or cooks, and I just kept sharing my eating, drinking and cooking adventures with them.
I enjoy cooking as much as eating. I tend to focus on how dishes are prepared and hearing how chefs come up with ingredient combinations. I take them as inspiration for my dishes at home.
I go to Hopers’ Base (6-8 Fort Street, North Point, tel: 2570 8616), a small neighbourhood Chinese restaurant with a simple menu, once or twice a month for the famous roast goose and, in winter, the lamb stew Cantonese-style with fatty and gamy belly meat served in a clay casserole.
The owner and I have been mates since secondary school and he shares the same passion for food.