Where to eat & drink while on holiday – savour yourself

On the second floor of Dorsett Mongkok Hotel Hong Kong is Thai Pad restaurant with modern Thai cuisine ranging from traditional green papaya salad to seafood dishes. Thai Pad also offers exquisite beverage with ingredients handpicked by experienced chefs.

What is so special about this restaurant is that it offers uniquely steamed lobster and scallop dumplings. The demand for them is so high they are over quite soon. Lung King Heen is the first Chinest restaurant to receive accolades from peers. These Chinese food retains its excellence in taste.

Situated atop Lan Kwai Fong, Club Qing is a private kitches with its Mandarin-style dining hall. It is signatory with eloquent wooden furniture and tea ware. For Chef Andy, steaming and frying are but an art form. He finds incessant creative inspiration and innovation in them. The tea you will be served at the end of the meal is called Dan Chung tea, which is as unique as the meal itself. Intriguingly the kitchen has only four tables, which means early reservation is compulsory.

At Tim's kitchen you are about to savour healthy cuisine. Some dishes such as stir-fried prawn, crab claw poached with winter melon are required to be pre-ordered. It has earned two stars for excellent Chinese dishes.

Dong Lai Shun is noteworthy because of its mutton hotpot. There is a particular way of enjoying the mutton hotpot: soak the mutton slices in warm water and immerse it in sesame sauce. Although the environment may not be as relaxed as you expect, the service is very hearty. The restaurant offers Northern Chinese dishes in addition to Shanghainese, Sichuanese and Cantonese seafood.

Ad-agency owner turned chef Margaret Xu claims to be a self-taught cook. She has her organic vegetable farm with tools behind the time: stone-grinds and terracotta ovens. With their assistance Xu makes Chinese cuisine simply classic. And she claims it to be New Hong Kong cooking. Her kitchen, Yin Yang, is a three-storey building. You need to book the place five days beforehand. Although there is a mention about a deposit in her website, that would negotiable.

This place offers Asian vegetarian dishes under the supervision of an expert Yoga teacher. It is available for any vegetarian two or three nights a week, though that too has to be booked one week in advance. They usually have a long list of bookings, which means you got to be lucky to be in touch with them. The food is excellent in taste and portions are quite big and filling.

An awesome place to have a cheap meal or two. It is just a matter of ticking your selection out of the 45 items which are usually a soup, congee and rice steamed with chicken. One Dim Sum usually has a line at the door, but orders do not take much time to deliver.

Linguini Fini's sausages and meats are extracted from local organic farms. You have a wide variety to taste with rare mouthwatering dishes such as fried testa and tripe cooked with tomatoes. Overall speaking, it is a rare treat.

Sebastian Lepinoy is a chef with a dab hand for delectable French dishes. His menu includes pork belly in addition to a long list of wine labels.