{"id":52039,"date":"2026-05-13T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52039"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:50:45","slug":"your-hong-kong-weekend-food-guide-for-may-15-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52039","title":{"rendered":"Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 15-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">From Hong Kong\u2019s biggest bamboo charcoal banh mi and a masterful Shanghai-Huaiyang brunch, to Vincenzo Capuano\u2019s theatrical Neapolitan debut and Jean-Pierre restaurant\u2019s Sydney collaboration, this weekend\u2019s guide serves up a diverse line-up of must-book feasts from Friday through Monday.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Friday, May 15<\/strong><\/h3>\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-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bistro Hoi An\u2019s 20-inch bamboo charcoal banh mi is limited to 20 a day. Photo: Handout\" 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\/2026\/05\/13\/47dcdcf5-80b9-4f17-a2e2-e8e7bba7b09e_812028c5.jpg\" title=\"Bistro Hoi An\u2019s 20-inch bamboo charcoal banh mi is limited to 20 a day. Photo: Handout\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">Bistro Hoi An\u2019s 20-inch bamboo charcoal banh mi is limited to 20 a day. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bistro Hoi An celebrates Vietnam\u2019s Banh Mi Festival with Hong Kong\u2019s largest bamboo charcoal banh mi, a record-breaking 20-inch show-stopper limited to just 20 per day \u2013 meaning they should be ordered in advance. The Vietnamese baguette is filled with chicken and pork liver p\u00e2t\u00e9, five-spice pork belly, pork floss, pickled vegetables, spring onion, coriander, chilli and Vietnamese mayonnaise, and splashed with fish sauce.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pair it with Vietnamese drinks like <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">ca phe muoi<\/em> (salted coffee) or <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">ca phe dua<\/em> (coconut coffee), sourced from Hoi An Roastery\u2019s sustainable farms. Make it a feast with the Vietnamese Flavour Platter, complete with steamed savoury rice cakes, prawn and avocado rice-paper rolls, crispy pork and taro spring rolls, chicken skewers and honey pomelo prawn salad, plus beef tartare or grilled beef in betel leaf.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Where:<\/strong> Civic Square, Elements, 1 Austin Road West, West Kowloon<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">When:<\/strong> Until June 30<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/100-top-tables\/article\/3353355\/your-hong-kong-weekend-food-guide-may-15-18?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hong Kong\u2019s biggest bamboo charcoal banh mi and a masterful Shanghai-Huaiyang brunch, to Vincenzo Capuano\u2019s theatrical Neapolitan debut and Jean-Pierre restaurant\u2019s Sydney collaboration, this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[108,1032,3569,5231,1666],"class_list":["post-52039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-food","tag-guide","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-weekend","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52039","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=52039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}