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Hong Kong

Shanghainese restaurants in Hong Kong

  1. A

    Wat Yat

    The only place left in Tsim Sha Tsui where you can have a traditional Shanghainese breakfast of savoury soy milk and stuffed glutinous rice rolls. There’s also a selection of northern-style pastries. Ask for an English menu (rice and noodles $20 to $33 per serving). Hau Fook St is a few blocks east of Nathan Rd in Tsim Sha Tsui. Walking north from the intersection of Carnarvon and Cameron Rds, it’s the first lane on your right.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Wing Lai Yuen

    A household name for daam daam min (spicy Sichuanese noodles), Wing Lai Yuen was opened in 1947 in the squatter shacks of Diamond Hill where Nationalist soldiers from Chongqing used to live. According to rumour, it was martial-arts director Chang Che who gave Wing Lai Yuen its name. Now it has an English menu and a branch in Macau, but the excellent noodles ($18 per bowl) are still handmade.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Tin Heung Lau

    Filmmaker Stephen Chow and former chief executive Tung Chee Hwa are regulars at this tired-looking establishment considered by some to be the best Hangzhou restaurant in China. It’s famous for its crab dishes during hairy crab season (October to February), and the fragrance of its smoked yellow croaker (over $700) is the stuff of urban legend.

    reviewed

  4. Crystal Jade

    People were queuing for a table at this place long before it received a mention in the Michelin guide, and rightly so: the dishes here are mouth-watering, especially the noodles ($32 to $45). There are branches all over town, including in Central, Causeway Bay and Wan Chai.

    reviewed

  5. D

    Delicious Kitchen

    The Shanghainese rice cooked with shredded Chinese cabbage is so good at this cha chaan teng that fashionistas are tripping over themselves to land a table here. It’s best with the honey-glazed pork chop (from $43 including rice).

    reviewed

  6. Crystal Jade

    People were queuing for a table at this place long before it received a mention in the Michelin guide, and rightly so: the dishes here are mouth-watering, especially the noodles ($32 to $45). There are branches all over town.

    reviewed

  7. Crystal Jade

    People were queuing for a table at this place long before it received a mention in the Michelin guide, and rightly so: the dishes here are mouth-watering, especially the noodles ($32 to $45). There are branches all over town.

    reviewed

  8. Crystal Jade

    People were queuing for a table at this place long before it received a mention in the Michelin guide, and rightly so: the dishes here are mouth-watering, especially the noodles ($32 to $45). There are branches all over town.

    reviewed