1. Little Bao

(66 Staunton Street, SoHo)

This is the place to get bao burgers, from the classic pork belly burger with hoisin sauce to a Szechuan Fried Chicken option topped with a Chinese black vinegar glaze and Szechuan mayo. Wong digs the Sloppy Chan — a vegetarian option made with Taiwanese braised shiitake tempeh, truffle mayo and sweet pickled daikon. There are also sharing plates and classic cocktails to pair with.

2. Ta Vie

(21 Stanley Street, 2/F, The Pottinger, Central)

Opened by the same F&B group behind Tenku Ryugin, the kitchen at this French-Japanese restaurant is helmed by the former’s executive chef. The menu focuses on Asian ingredients and Wong also likes that they pair their dishes with tea from Taiwan and other Asian regions.

3. Tai Fung Lau Peking Restaurant

(29-31, Chatham Road, Windsor Mansion, Tsim Sha Tsui)

The lamb in a homemade sauce and the Shandong roast chicken are some of the popular dishes here, as is the retro-looking hotpot to cook your beef, mushroom meatballs and crab roe stuffed fish ball, among others. But this is where Wong likes to head to for its Peking duck.

4. Yardbird

(33-35 Bridges Street, Sheung Wan)

Any self-respecting foodie knows to try to get a seat at Yardbird. Not surprisingly, it is also where many visiting chefs like to supper. Of course, Yardbird doesn’t take reservations, and all items are limited in quantity. The speciality here is yakitori, and there is quite the unbiased selection to choose from. They serve everything from the chicken thigh welsh onion and tare, to the breast with wasabi and soy sauce, to the neck with yuzu kosho, and the fillet with yuzu and miso, to the heart with spring onion, and the gizzard with olive oil and garlic.

5. Fu Sing Seafood Restaurant

(1/F, Grand Millennium Plaza, 181 Queen’s Road, Central)

There are many places for dim sum and barbecue roast pork in the city, but this is apparently one of the better, and, perhaps less-commercialised, ones. There are three outlets; this outlet in Sheung Wan, next to the MTR, is where Wong gets her char siew fix.