The two-Michelin-starred restaurant debuts its "Food Tiger" takeaway offerings—and it’s been well worth the wait
From Simon Rogan’s fine dining-at-home series to Sushi Saito’s baller bentos, Hong Kong’s best restaurants have been finding ways to cater to their monied clientele—and the latest to join in is Ta Vie’s Hideaki Sato, one of the city’s most intriguing chefs. Sato's high-end restaurant in The Pottinger Hotel has long been a Tatler Dining favourite—it’s been on our Top 20 Best Restaurants list multiple times—and Sato is widely known for his meticulous experiments in the kitchen.
While Ta Vie is Japanese-French in nature, the chef really, really loves Chinese food, and has long been documenting his adventures in recreating classics from Peking duck (the carcasses and extra meat often get turned into a rich duck broth for ramen, which is now served at lunch) to ma lai go (steamed brown sugar cake) and char siu (barbecued pork). Those latter experiments have previously found their way onto diners’ plates before as off menu items, and now they are officially available on the just launched “Food Tiger” takeaway menu.
Check out some menu highlights below.
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The charcoal-grilled char siu bao features Iberico pork glazed with sherry and smoked over grape vines, combined with thinly shaved black truffle, red wine pickled shallot, julienned red cabbage, onion and ginger, and Japanese mustard mayonnaise. The Chinese-style steamed bao is also made in-house.
Sato’s take on the dim sum staple of ma lai go is a hojicha (Japanese roasted tea) and wasanbon (brown sugar) steamed sponge cake, which took over 50 different trial runs to get right.
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In the fancy rice bowl stakes, Sato’s charcoal-grilled wagyu-don is up there with its mix of black truffle, onsen egg, barbecued sweet corn, Koshihikari rice and a black truffle sweet soy sauce.
French veal cream stew with butter rice is also available in limited quantities, with each pack serving up to four people.
To order from Ta Vie’s Food Tiger—options are posted to the restaurant's Facebook daily—WhatsApp (+852 6627 9956) or email info@tavie.com.hk. Delivery isn’t available so guests will need to pick-up their food from Ta Vie from 6:00pm onwards.
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