Paul L.
Yelp
Hoi King Heen, the Chinese restaurant inside the ritzy Inter-Continental Grand Stanford Hotel located in East TST, is now solidly THE place where I must dine at least once when I'm in HKG. We've dined here a half dozen times over the past few years (all dinners), and every time it's been superb.
We ordered a variety of dishes, including a very authentic Peking Duck carved in front of us (90 USD) - 'authentic' because it was mostly just the crispy skin that was served. The rest of the duck was used to make a soup with udon (16). Just to highlight a few of the dishes we also sampled...The prawns with broccoli (51 per order, or 76 for the order and a half that we had) was pricey as well, but man, those prawns were ginormous in size as well as taste. The beef in pear (30 for 6 pears) was downright cute, with a flavor to match. For dessert, a friend contributed an absolutely out-of-this-world cake from the pastry shop in neighboring Shangri-La hotel - just a perfect ending to a delicious dinner. Service throughout was impeccable.
My only regret was splurging on a bottle of Nuits St. George (2014) - I just have no luck whatsoever with red burgundies, as time after time I've given these famed wines a chance, and I've repeatedly regretted it. That Pommard we brought to a friend's place for dinner, only to be remarkably unimpressed, is still fresh on my mind.
Being a restaurant inside a fancy hotel can be daunting, and HKH is not bargain fare, as you can see from the prices referenced above (tea is $3.50 per person - but it's GREAT tea - and rice is the same price, per bowl). However, we've found that, when we go with folks who are members of some sort of dining club, the discounts and the coupons can take you past "reasonable" to "affordable". This most recent dinner saw 8 hungry adults and 2 toddlers eat and drink to our hearts' content (including 3 bottles of wine) for 3250 HKD, which works out to just a few nickels over 50 USD per adult, tip included. "How can that be?", you ask? Well, for a start, everything was 25% off with membership. Plus there was a food discount for about $60, and a similar one for the "expensive wine" (over 128 a bottle), For what we got - to borrow words from the Kids who are alright - I call it a bargain.