At a loss for somewhere to have lunch after visiting the Hong Kong Science Museum, I started up my trusty TripAdvisor app to see what restaurants with a decent rating were close by. Up popped Tai Hing in the New Mandarin Centre a couple of hundred metres away from where I was so off into the hot, humid, smoggy day I went.
Tai Hing, East Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
For the past 4 or 5 years I’ve been lucky enough to travel to my favourite destination in Asia, Hong Kong, once or twice a year either as a trip in itself, or as a staging point to nearby countries (China, Macau & Vietnam).
I always try to stay in East Tsim Sha Tsui at the InterContinental Grand Stanford. I like the area as its far enough away from the main Kowloon touristy area of Nathan and Canton Roads so that you’re not constantly being harassed by tailors or dodgy Rolex watch hawkers, but you’re also just a 15 minute walk, either by the harborfront promenade or underground through the MTR stations and shopping centres, to the Star Ferry terminal for the ferry hide to Hong Kong Island.
During one of my trips a couple of years ago I happened to stop at Roccos Pizzeria on Mody Road just up the street from my hotel, and with the offer of happy “hour” for most of the day I settled in for a couple of cold beers to quench my thirst. Service was always good, and the food as always a welcome break from always eating Asian food.
Roccos Pizzeria, East Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
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On Tuesday there were six hungry people looking for a feed of meat and one of my colleagues had found a place that would not disappoint us.
The Grill is a restaurant in the SKYCITY Grand Hotel in central Auckland.
The Grill, Auckland, New Zealand
A number of us were in Auckland for the week to run some training courses so we had the opportunity to eat at some new places.
On Monday we went to Elliott Stables on Elliott Street just behind the Crowne Plaza hotel.
Elliott Stables, Auckland, New Zealand
Had lunch with some colleagues and a business partner at a restaurant in Southbank that I’d walked past a hundred times but that I’d never eaten at.
Pure South ay Southbank is smallish and overlooks the Yarra.
Pure South, Southbank, Melbourne, Australia
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