{"id":18504,"date":"2025-12-10T23:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18504"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:51:39","slug":"dim-sum-pigs-tripe-ningbo-cuisine-hong-kong-restaurant-picks-of-a-food-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18504","title":{"rendered":"Dim sum, pig\u2019s tripe, Ningbo cuisine: Hong Kong restaurant picks of a food entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Food entrepreneur Gerry Ma is executive director of Urban Dining F&amp;B and an adviser for the Gourmet Zone at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council\u2019s Food Expo. He spoke to Andrew Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">I love to eat, but I never learned to cook. I cannot even make noodles. I was the smallest in a big family, so all my sisters and elders took care of me. But from everyone, I learned a lot about food. My four big sisters and older brother all married people from different places \u2013 Shanghai, Suzhou, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Chiu Chow<\/span> and others \u2013 and I learned to differentiate different Chinese cuisines from an early age.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As for Cantonese food, my ultimate preference is Kowloon\u2019s <strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Fook Lam Moon<\/strong> (2\/F, Kingston International Centre, 19 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay. Tel: 2366 0286). The food remains close to the founder\u2019s style [who was known for high-end, labour-intensive Cantonese dishes], while its chef, Law On, is nearly 90 years old. I have known him since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Another favourite place is IFC\u2019s <strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Cuisine Cuisine<\/strong> (3101, Podium Level 3, IFC Mall, 8 Finance Street, Central. Tel: 2393 3933) with master chef Lee Yuk-lam, who is almost 80 now. I like his luxurious private-kitchen menu items, such as the crystal shrimp ball and stir-fried pig\u2019s tripe. His menu repertoire is not huge, but he does each item very well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cuisine Cuisine\u2019s fish maw and conch soup. Photo: Cuisine Cuisine\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/09\/e43bffcd-0664-4b44-8805-ccdb7dfc18cf_64f10534.jpg\" title=\"Cuisine Cuisine\u2019s fish maw and conch soup. Photo: Cuisine Cuisine\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Cuisine Cuisine\u2019s fish maw and conch soup. Photo: Cuisine Cuisine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A younger chef I enjoy is Hung Chi-kwong at <strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">R\u00f9n<\/strong> (2\/F, The St. Regis Hong Kong, 1 Harbour Drive, Wan Chai. Tel: 2138 6808). I have followed his career and seen him mature now to get two Michelin stars for the restaurant. He started with the Lei Garden group and Nanhai No 1. He has great technique and does not just rely on using expensive ingredients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3335683\/dim-sum-pigs-tripe-ningbo-cuisine-hong-kong-restaurant-picks-food-entrepreneur?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food entrepreneur Gerry Ma is executive director of Urban Dining F&amp;B and an adviser for the Gourmet Zone at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5449,2569,9115,108,3569,5231,12395,726,1023,476,2570,12394],"class_list":["post-18504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-cuisine","tag-dim","tag-entrepreneur","tag-food","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-ningbo","tag-picks","tag-pigs","tag-restaurant","tag-sum","tag-tripe","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}