A Review of Two Chinese Restaurants in Hong Kong

12 Sep 2010:  This week we had dinner at two Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong: Man Wah at the Mandarin Oriental and T'ang Court at the Langham Hotel.  On each of these occasions, we were joined by a couple with connoisseur taste buds for fine cuisine and wine. 

For the first evening (Friday), we went to Man Wah with Patrick and Debra.  Patrick, as usual, took care of ensuring the wine arrived and prepared in pristine conditions and ordering the food in advance so that we could focus on catching up.  Man Wah, as I commented on a previous blog, has so far not been awarded any Michelin stars by the infamous food guide.  So we wanted to try it again to understand why Michelin had bizarrely missed out on this established institution in HK given our recent rather indifferent experience at Tim's Kitchen, a 2 Michelin-starred restaurant.  Patrick had ordered some jelly fish and cucumbers in garlic, to work up his appetite as he waited for us to show up one after another, from 15 minutes later, to almost an hour later!  (Sorry, Patrick!) 

I unfortunately did not make an accurate record of the dishes we had that evening, nor did I take pictures.  However, they were all impressive and from memory: 1) the roast pork belly for which all of  the fat, crackling and succulent meat just melted in your mouth and merged into one really tasty bite,