Ming Court

Situated in the compact and noisy commercial whirlwind that is Mongkok, this two-Michelin-star restaurant's food stands a cut above the sea of Chinese kitchens in the city. Whet your appetite with cold dishes like Sichuan chicken chops and the more innovative chilled silk bean curd with black truffle. Then move on to the ever-popular Cantonese classics of daily soup and barbecued meats plates. Try the restaurant's iconic stir-fried sliced giant garoupa stuffed with shrimp paste, dubbed "imperial dragon wearing golden armour" in Chinese, and one of the many specialty fried rices on the menu. Round up your formidable feast with the dramatic bird's nest crystal extravagance, a dessert in which four pieces of square yellow bird's nest jelly are served on a black tray surrounded by ice smoke.