Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 17-19

Fill your weekend, and your stomach, with The Chilli Lab pasta, cheese fondue – and an Italian-Japanese four-hands dinner

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Black Sheep’s Chalet des Alpes is back, offering cured meats, raclette and fondue. Photo: Handout

Published: 5:00pm, 15 Jan 2025

We’re halfway through January already and Lunar New Year is just around the corner, so Hong Kong restaurants are busy ramping up for one of their most crucial times of year. This weekend, we’re highlighting three new exclusive menus.

Those on the hunt for more fine dining can browse our list of 100 Top Tables, ahead of the new list being announced next month.

Pici has teamed up with local brand The Chilli Lab to celebrate Lunar New Year with “Fortune Flavours”. Photo: Handout

Friday, January 17

Tickle your tongue with a taste of the LNY spirit with an exclusive Pici x The Chilli Lab collab this month. Blending Italian flavours into dishes that honour Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year traditions, Pici’s Fortune Flavours dishes include The Chilli Lab salsiccia and Shaoxing Haa1 Jung4 ravioli, both made using The Chilli Lab’s signature garlic chilli paste.

Where: All nine Pici locations across Hong Kong

When: Through February 28

Whisk x Origo chefs Sheldon Fonseca (left) and Matteo Alberti are serving up eight original courses this weekend. Photo: Handout

Saturday, January 18

Catch Italian guest chef Matteo Alberti exclusively at Whisk on January 17 and 18. The Whisk x Origo Four Hands Dinner will see chef Alberti bring seasonal flavours of Ishikawa prefecture mixed with contemporary Italian traditions to chef Sheldon Fonseca’s modern European kitchen.