Discovery Channel has premiered Kung Food! Hong Kong's Grandmasters of Cuisine, a show unpacking the complex and unique relationship of Hong Kong’s food landscape through the eyes of Michelin-starred chefs.
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| Source: Discovery Channel. Chef Chaneton of Mono at a market in Hong Kong. |
Hong Kong leads Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2021 list with 11 entries. David Lai, Guillaume Galliot, Hideaki Sato, Ricardo Chaneton, Richard Ekkebus and Vicky Cheng, all chefs from Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, have been tapped to share their love for Hong Kong and how they create their plated masterpieces.
Chef Chaneton of Mono, Asia's window to Latin American gastronomy, said, "Mole is a sauce typical of Mexican cuisine, where you have 21 ingredients. For me, Hong Kong is a mole, and I see so much of Latin America in Hong Kong."
The show makes reference to the pandemic era. Chef Vicky Cheng of VEA, a one-Michelin-starred restaurant known for Chinese luxury ingredients cooked with French technique, opened a second restaurant in 2021. He said: "I had one goal in my mind - I didn't want to let go of any of my staff - either you do it 100% or nothing at all - honestly, it's probably one of the hardest things I've done, opening Wing, but it was a risk that I was willing to take."
Chef Richard Ekkebus, from two-Michelin-starred French restaurant Amber, adds: "For me, the fighting spirit of Hong Kong is its resilience. It's the resilience of the Hong Kong people of wanting to reinvent themselves constantly and rebouncing within any moment of challenge."
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The show airs at 8:05 pm on Discovery Channel and 9:50 pm on Discovery Asia in Singapore and Malaysia on Wednesdays.
