Why Yong Fu probably has the best crab dishes you’ve ever tasted
- No meal at Yong Fu is complete without the 18-cut raw crabs, while other stand-out items include giant cuttlefish and squid ink rice
Yong Fu is so new that the restaurant sign is still covered with red paper – the result of its owner not being able to be present for an opening ceremony because of Covid-19. But it’s been quietly attracting a lot of food lovers who are not averse to paying premium prices for a premium meal.
The premise offers a main dining room with four or five tables, and a whole floor dedicated to six private rooms of varying sizes. While we know Zhejiang cuisine for its sometimes overpowering flavours, Yong Fu’s biggest difference is in how balanced flavours are injected into quite basic dishes.
The boneless chicken feet in spicy sauce (HK$198) was a perfect example of that: crunchy yet tender feet infused with a very balanced marinade. Even a simple dish like roasted pine nuts with seaweed (HK$258) tasted unique.
No meal at Yong Fu is complete without the 18-cut raw crabs (HK$888), which is quite possibly the best raw crab dish I have ever tasted. Each crab was cut into precise matching sizes and paired with a marinade that was an impressive balance of sour, sweet and salty.