joint among the locals and celebs in Hong Kong, like Wong Cho Lam and Chow Yun Fat. Located near the famous Temple Street Night Market in Jordan, it has a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand nod and is open till 3.30am daily. Regulars swear by the shop’s velvety black sesame paste,Bing Kee Cha Dong is one of the charmingly unassuming stalls with a gritty metal facade and ad-hoc tables set up along a narrow alleyway.
Bamboo Village at Temple Street, Jordan, is an almost 40-year-old restaurant which claimed to have moved onshore from being a typhoon shelter ‘dining boat’ in the ’80s. It made headlines recently when K-pop girl group Blackpink dropped by for a meal while they were in town for their concert. Excited diners eagerly snapped photos of the stars, though they were later asked to delete the photos by the group’s bodyguards, causing a few ruffled feathers.
Yung Kee’s owner partnered Singapore-born veteran TVB producer Robert Chua to open an outpost here calledin 2017. It now has two outlets, including a hawker stall at Ion Orchard. But due to Singapore’s import regulations, it doesn’t serve its famous goose here, though you can still order a selection of house-roasted pork and duck.
More recently, it also opened an upscale restaurant called Yung’s Bistro at the swish K11 Musea mall in Hong Kong, serving mod iterations of its roast meat dishes with a panoramic view of Victoria Harbour.Yakiniku Great This yakiniku restaurant has two outlets at Sheung Wan and Central in Hong Kong, plus a Kuala Lumpur outpost. It specialises in different cuts of Japanese wagyu beef, which customers can also order as an omakase menu. Celeb diners there include Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi, Julian Cheung and Anita Yuen.