
Din Tai Fung
From an Indagare insider based in Hong Kong: “Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese chain located inside the Delay No Mall in Causeway Bay, serves seriously good soup dumplings, and the ambience feels very local.”
Weary shoppers and the occasional Hong Kong movie star seek refuge at this charming, colonial-style café, located on the Pedder Building’s first floor. The lunch menu is a Western and Asian medley with dishes like spinach and feta wontons and tempura soft shell crab while those doing afternoon tea can choose between a British set or a more traditional one where dim sum replaces scones and jam.
TIP: You can book online.
An old favorite pub, going strong after twenty years, making it a bewhiskered veteran in Hong Kong hospitality terms, is the Dickens Bar, in the basement of the Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay. Its menu has fish-and-chips, bangers-and-mash, shepherd’s pie and the other quintessentially English culinary staple, curry. The lunchtime curry buffet is the best in town.

From an Indagare insider based in Hong Kong: “Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese chain located inside the Delay No Mall in Causeway Bay, serves seriously good soup dumplings, and the ambience feels very local.”

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