Wonders from the wok

Famous for authentic Hong Kong-style cuisine, Hong Min restaurant is drawing food fans living in Bangkok’s western suburbs with an impressive menu featuring more than 300 dishes bursting with flavour. 

The newest branch of this longstanding restaurant is located in community mall The Circle Ratchapruk and furnished in modern Chinese-style.

With a name that derives from “hone mei”, Chinese for “delicious food”, the chefs here use only the best and freshest ingredients in their woks.

Most customers whet their appetites with a generous plate of appetisers (Bt250-Bt350) featuring stir-fried fish maw mixed with spring onion and egg, steamed crab dumpling is filled with crabmeat, shrimp rolls, stir-fried ham with asparagus and mushroom and pickles on the side. 

Another favourite is a healthy hot pot of braised fish maw with crabmeat and shitake mushrooms in red gravy (Bt200 and Bt350) that is flavoured with Chinese liquor and made to a secret recipe. The Peking Duck (Bt599) is also excellent, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside and served with Mandarin pancakes, cucumber and onion topped with special sauce and pickled chilli.

The goose meat is flown in fresh from Poland to ensure meatier and tender flesh for signature dish of stewed goose legs with egg noodles (Bt360 and Bt600). The legs are slowly cooked in the soup with aromatic spices until brown and served with Hong Kong egg noodles that are first stir-fried then baked. The meat is so tender that it falls off the bone.

Other must-tries are the stir-fried sea crab with salted egg sauce and dainty dim sum filled with steamed shrimp and crab.

To finish the meal, there’s little more refreshing than iced assorted beans in longan syrup or ginkgo nuts in milk and syrup. Wash them down with a watermelon smoothie or chrysanthemum tea.

 

 

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>>Hong Min Restaurant is located at The Circle Ratchapruk shopping lifestyle mall. It’s open daily from 10am to10pm. Call (02) 863 8798-99.