Hong Kong restaurant review: Hunan Bistro, Causeway Bay - delicious specialities from the spicy southern province
This sleek modern restaurant serves up classic and less familiar Hunan dishes full of bold flavours and plenty of heat. The only reason we didn’t finish all the food was that we ordered way too much
We ordered too much at Hunan Bistro. We knew we were ordering too much; our affable and helpful server (who turned out to be the owner) knew we were ordering too much. We only realised just how much too much was when the dishes (which came too quickly) covered the table.
Alarmed, we cancelled one of the dishes that hadn’t been served yet (and which we really wanted to try) and asked that they hold back on the others until we’d made a dent in the food on our table.
Hunan Bistro is a modern, sleek space on the cusp of Causeway Bay and Wan Chai. The pictorial menu is extensive and lists some of our favourite Hunan dishes, including lots of innards, as well as a few things we weren’t familiar with.
Pork knuckle with preserved vegetable (HK$138) was a nice variation on the dish that is usually made with pork belly (although that is available too). The knuckles had been simmered long and slow so the meat easily pulled away from the bone and the skin and fat were soft.
Steamed diao fish with soybeans and pepper (HK$88) was the only dish we didn’t like: we didn’t expect such intense, funky flavours.
Hunan Bistro, 409 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, tel: 2788 0897. About HK$250 without drinks or the service charge.
While you’re in the area