9 Best Restaurants In Hong Kong (And The Price Tag)
Feature - Food Guide, Food - Hong Kong, Overseas - Hong Kong
September 16, 2015
Hong Kong is THE go-to city for food, anything from dai pai dong, Hong Kong Cafes, dim sum restaurants to fine dining can rock your world. Similar to the 10 Best Restaurants In Singapore guide, the following top restaurants in Hong Kong is based on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2015. This guide took longer to compile than the Singapore’s version for obvious reason, but I still went to each and every one of these restaurants at least once, over a 3 year period. Reservations at some of these restaurants needed to be much earlier than expected. I know......
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