On the Menu | A food editor’s 8 best Hong Kong dishes of 2024, including hotpot, and one of the worst
From a beefy hotpot meal to a take on Cup Noodles to a tiramisu with a savoury twist, here are Charmaine Mok’s best and worst dishes of 2024
As the year wraps up, for this food writer the Christmas and New Year season is more about recovering from eating all the incredible meals that have been thrown my way – not that I am complaining!
I am grateful for them all. As writer Helen Rosner of the New Yorker magazine recently said: “Those of us in the admittedly absurd position of eating for a living come to learn, after some time on the job, that, on balance, most food tends to be pretty good.”
As I reflect on another year of great dishes, drinks and conversations, looking forward to the next batch of new restaurants makes me a little nervous for my digestive system.
At the same time, all year there has been the underlying thrum of trepidation at not knowing when the next place in the city might go under.
In that spirit, despite travelling aplenty I have not included any dishes eaten outside Hong Kong. Listed in no particular order, these are the ones I will be making plans to eat more of in 2025.
