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on 09 May 2026

The Chairman x Ru Yuan x 102 House x Chao Shang Chao | Hong Kong

on 19 Apr 2026

In a city with so many great fine dining restaurants, @thechairmanrestauranthk remains a defiant sanctuary for the soul of Cantonese cuisine. My recent lunch there wasn’t just about elite cooking; it was about a deep, quiet respect for ingredients that often get overlooked.

The meal kicked off with a Pig’s Ear and Trotter Terrine that managed to be both rustic and incredibly refined, balanced by the sharp zing of ginger and vinegar. Then came the Crispy Taro Cake with Smoked Duck,... More

on 01 Apr 2026

Asia’s best @thechairmanrestauranthk 🇭🇰🔥🔥🔥 Thank you Chef Danny and the team for the warm hospitality 🙏🙇🏻‍♂️

#thechairman #hongkong #asiasbestrestaurant #michelinstar #damngood

on 03 Mar 2026

If you want to understand why a reservation at The Chairman is so difficult to get, start with the crab.

The steamed fresh flowery crab with aged Shaoxing wine, fragrant chicken oil, and flat rice noodles is the restaurant’s most iconic dish, and it absolutely earns that status. The aged Shaoxing wine adds depth, the chicken oil brings fragrance, and the noodles soak up every bit of that savory sauce. It’s delicate yet deeply savory, with a silky texture that lingers long after the last bite.

There’s... More

on 16 Nov 2025

What a treat to have this incredibly rare angelfish #荷包魚 at @thechairmanrestauranthk! This coral reef fish is usually kept by the fishermen themselves due to the small quantity and is prized for its tender flesh and oily fragrance. Other highlights of the meal included the barbecued lamb belly & abalone roll, 15 year aged tangerine peel beef ball, aged pigeon roasted with 5 spices, and mud crab stir-fried with minced pork & aged pickled lemon. Thanks @chainyza... More

on 08 Sep 2025

Always nice to be back to the Chairman, got to try some new dishes this time. Some highlights: 滷水三味, 叉羊煎蛋飯, 酸湯羊雜煎米粉, 潤腸臘鴿煲仔飯. Thanks @feastingpiggg for the invite!•




#foodgasm #yum #eat #foodpic #foodpics #foodphotography #foodlover #tasty #hungry #foodblogger #dessert #foods #cooking... More

on 04 Jun 2025

Cantonese @thechairmanrestauranthk

- Pig trotted terrine, ginger, vinegar -
- Baby squid, Sichuan pepper, dried squid -
- Crispy taro cake with smoked duck -
- Bbq lamb belly and abalone roll -
- Cleansing soup -
- Geoduck poached in rice broth -
- Chairman style char siu -
- Doubled boiled vegetables, pork skin, shrimps -
- Flowery crab, shaoxing wine, flat rice noodles -

Experience by Danny Yip

on 03 May 2025

Dinner at @thechairmanrestauranthk 🔥🇭🇰
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An incredible dinner. Finally made it here and what a menu. So many of you said that I needed to eat here and very glad I did. Voted as one of the top 10 restaurants in the world, the focus here is on traditional Cantonese cuisine, but using carefully sourced, local ingredients of the highest quality. It’s a tasting menu but one where you are sent the options a few days before and then select what you feel like having. Love this kind... More

on 02 Jan 2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎍🧧🐍

2024 was full of surprises - challenges, to be sure, but many wonderful memories as well. I embarked on a lot of new projects, met amazing people, and traveled to cool places.

Some of my favorite culinary moments last year included the feast to end all feasts at @thechairmanrestauranthk and dinner under the stars at Shuri Castle in Okinawa by @sazenka. I fell in love with Panama at @cantinadeltigre and @latapadelcoco.... More

on 26 Dec 2024

Considered the best restaurant in Hong Kong, and a w50b mainstay, The Chairman opened in 2009 and has since come to define Cantonese cooking under a modern lense. A collaboration between Chefs Danny Yip and Kwok Keung Tung, the menu using produce from a farm in Sheung Shui, guests are asked to select their options a few days ahead of time and without pretense everything from Trotters to Abalone receives equal attention such that flavors are deep and nuanced but steeped in tradition.

@thechairmanrestauranthk... More

8 / 10
on 26 Oct 2024

Taking friends visiting from Paris to this famous establishment for the first time.

Of course we had the steamed flowery crab, plus the smoked goose, and the signature char siu. This time we also had a new dish that was created after Asia's 50 Best in Seoul earlier in the year, with pine nut 'gazpacho'.

Full account of dinner on my blog: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2024/10/the-chairman-in-transit.html

on 15 Sep 2024

📍The Chairman x DEN Four Hands Collaboration┆🇭🇰Central, Hong Kong┆🥢Details Below 詳細は⤵︎

✼••┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈••✼
👩🏻‍🍳┆Cantonese x Japanese · 広東料理 x 和食
🏷┆@thechairmanrestauranthk x #DEN
🚉┆Sheung Wan (Exit A2)🚶🏽‍♀️4min
👣┆Smart Casual · スマートカジュアル
📅┆Pop-Up Event · 1日限定コラボ
✍️┆Food... More

on 20 May 2024

📍The Chairman┆🇭🇰Central, Hong Kong┆🥢Details Below 詳細は⤵︎

✼••┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈••✼
👩🏻‍🍳┆Cantonese · 広東料理
🏷┆@thechairmanrestauranthk #TheChairman
💰┆HKD 1,000~HKD 1,500🌞
🚉┆Sheung Wan Station (Exit A2)🚶🏽‍♀️4min
👣┆Smart Casual · スマートカジュアル
📅┆Hard to Book · 予約困難
✍️┆Food 8/10... More

on 13 Mar 2024

A meal at @thechairmanrestauranthk never disappoints. We tried a few new dishes and the surprise hit this time was the chargrilled sun cured pigeon in bbq sauce. Congratulations Danny on winning the Icon Award from Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024!

Our menu:

甜醋子葺豬手豬耳凍
Ginger and Vinegar Pig Trotter Terrine

豆豉油浸小黃花
Fried Yellow Croakers in Black Beans Oil

凍鹵水花椒小吊桶釀土魷
Cold Soy Marinated Baby Squid Flavored with Sichuan Pepper Oil... More

on 08 Nov 2023

Foodtastic Cantonese @thechairmanrestauranthk

- Pickled mis summer ginger root -
- Crispy taro with smoked duck -
- Pig tails with plum sauce -
- Slipper lobster, sweet peas, river crab roe -
- Flowery crab, shaoxing wine, flat rice noodles -
- Geoduck poached in rice broth -
- Chairman style char siu -
- Gourd juliennes, white ear fungus, fish broth -
- Threadfin, baby sardines, steamed rice -

Great flavours by Danny Hip 🙏🥰

8 / 10
on 13 Aug 2023

another dinner here with way too much food, as two crab dishes were ordered, on top of a giant grouper head.

Full account of the dinner is here:
https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2023/08/how-to-feed-village.html

on 15 Mar 2023

Finally got to try The Chairman 2.0, the food was definitely more refined and elevated in terms of flavor and presentation. Although I do miss the casual & neighborhood atmosphere at the old place. Favorite dish: sweet & sour & spicy garlic beef 🔥 thanks @shirleyyegu for the reservation and @winesniffer for ordering the dishes! And nice to finally meet @sousboiz




#foodgasm #yum #eat #foodpic #foodpics... More

on 11 Sep 2021

(SWIPE FOR MORE PICS) 1 斤13両野生金邊方脷 1 catty 13 teal (about 1.1 kilo) Wild Macao Sole @[instagram] Chairman (July 2021) 😍😍😍😍😍

Now you can have a reference point on how big the fish with the iPhone in comparison. This size for wild fish was really hard to find. This is a great size because the fleshy had a meaty texture and the skin is not just smooth but full of collagen (pic 3-6) . The best part was the engawa plus the head and tail (pic 7-8). Those parts 😍😍😍😍... More

on 28 Aug 2021

(SWIPE FOR MORE PICS) 豉椒鹹菜炒雞雜
Fried Chicken Giblets with black beans, chilli, preserved vegetables @[instagram] @thechairmanrestauranthk

There are some dishes at Chairman that are so darn tasty but never got on to their menu because to Danny, dishes need to be inspiring and have more intellectual thinking process to get on to the signature menu.

That said, this dish was sooooo darn delicious. They made this as my friend wanted chicken innards but did not eat stinky... More

on 28 Mar 2021

Thanks to my very talented friend and local artist and illustrator @artchak_marshy @marshyfood who created this incredible painting of @thechairmanrestauranthk ‘s signature dish: steamed flower crab with aged Shaoxing wine and chicken fat and flat rice noodles!

She painted it using my photo of the dish on IG as the basis, so amazed by her skills!

This was originally planned to be a present for Danny for this year’s Michelin one star but then we realized our... More

on 05 Feb 2021

(SWIPE FOR MORE PICS) 梅乾菜扣肉煲仔飯
Traditional Pork Belly Stew in Preserved
Vegetable Claypot Rice
豚バラと梅干菜の釜飯 @[instagram] 大班樓 The Chairman (Jan 2021)

The rice from start to finish, in pictures. Because this rice has the preserved vegetables that was quite saucy and the pork bellies were fully of fat, there was no need to add any soy sauce at the end. The pork belly and rice was super delicious as usual, the rice crust this time was also perfectly executed,... More

on 27 Jan 2021

I am currently eating at the newly added Michelin one star 🌟 restaurant, Chairman! Michelin was very late but I am still super super happy for Danny and the team! Congratulations 👏👏👏
#chairman #littlemeg_chairman #michelin #onestar #congratulations #ミシュラン1つ星 #ミシュラン#おめでとう

on 24 Nov 2020

In Europe they have fungus season besides truffle where chanterelle, morels, porcini, trumpet, hen-of-the-wood etc becomes an integral part of any menu. Same for Chinese cuisine. Although in every month there are certain mushrooms in season, the months with the most abundant varieties of mushroom in Yunnan is from July - September where there are over 20-25 types of mushroom at peak.

Last year at Chairman we got to have rarer types of Chinese mushroom several times between July - September:

Pic... More

on 11 Nov 2020

(SWIPE FOR MORE PICS) 成都良薑肥牛煲仔飯
Beef short ribs with preserved ginger from Chengdu claypot rice
牛肉と成都生姜漬けのご飯

@[instagram] 大班樓 @thechairmanrestauranthk , Hong Kong
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The art of claypot rice 煲仔飯 in Hong Kong is that rice crust at the bottom much like socarrat of paella in Spain. And we got that with this claypot rice. Please swipe through the pics and videos to see these beautiful crusts 😋

#littlemeg_best2019 #littlemeg_best2020
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#littlemeg_hk... More

on 30 Oct 2020

(SWIPE FOR MORE PICS)南乳吊燒雞
Roasted Chicken with Nam Yu “Fermented Red Beancurd”
「南乳」風味の揚げ鶏

@[instagram] 大班樓 The Chairman, Hong Kong
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This chicken, similar to the last one, was also crispy chicken cooked with oil rather than roasting. The procedures are the same, chicken marinated overnight, then sugar, soy and vinegar were applied (上皮), followed by air drying for around 6 hours then cooked two times in oil with the final round being oil pouring for... More

6 / 10
on 03 Dec 2019

Back at the chairman for a wonderful meal with friends. This time not a collaboration dinner but the real deal.

9 / 10
on 25 May 2019

Amazing dinner here when Mr. Plotnicki gets treated as the VIP that he is. The kitchen brought out the 26-year old preserved lemon for the razor clams, which they don't use for just anybody.

Full account of the dinner is here:
https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2019/05/the-opinionated-chairman.html

on 22 May 2019

禮雲子柚皮 Braised Pomelo Skin With River Crab Roes @[instagram] 大班樓 Chairman, Hong Kong.
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The most humble pomelo skin, a delicacy in Chinese cuisine to utilize unwanted part and for its distinct mild bitter flavor, came from Guang Xi 廣西 sourced by no others but legendary 大師姐 Dai C Jie, so you know the quality must be top torch. Danny gave it a treatment unseen in other restaurants - sun dried pomelo skin rehydrated twice to remove unwanted bitterness, braised in dace fish broth... More

8 / 10
on 22 Jan 2019

Another good meal at the Chairman, 2 weeks after the last visit. That fish head is damn good.

Full account of dinner is here: http://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2019/01/more-cherry-popping.html

on 10 Jan 2019

A custom “greatest hits” menu at The Chairman, arranged and accompanied by @littleadventureshk. Having them guide what to order, why it was made a certain way, and the history and symbolism of each dish really added a whole new dimension that I wouldn’t have ever been able to achieve on my own. Oh, and ‘09 Doyard BdB was 🔥(BYO).

8 / 10
on 08 Jan 2019

Delicious lunch here as always, with a couple of new dishes in addition to the famous classics.

Full account of lunch is here: http://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2019/01/unexpected-cherry-popping.html

9 / 10
on 02 Sep 2018

another delicious meal at one of the best Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong. This time we were showing Virgilio Martinez of Central Restaurante around.

Full account of lunch is here: https://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2018/09/eating-with-chefs-peruvian-chairman.html

9 / 10
on 28 Aug 2018

a wonderful dinner tasting new dishes with a number of chef friends in attendance.

Full account on dinner is here: http://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2018/08/eating-with-chefs-druken-chairman.html

8 / 10
on 31 Jan 2018

A wonderful event at The Chairman. The Master Gourmet Guide of Hong Kong and the fabulous Susan Jung from the South China Morning Post allowed me to tag along to this one evening collaboration dinner.

8 / 10
on 31 Jan 2018

A very special pop-up collaboration by the Chefs from House 102 in Foshan, China. The young chef and manager spend time scouring Guangdong Province to look for ingredients mentioned in old cookbooks.

Full account of the dinner is here:
http://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2018/01/chairman-in-da-house.html

8 / 10
on 03 Oct 2017

Dinner with the menu arranged by the owner. Delicious deep-fried croakers, signature steamed flower crab, and lots of other delicious dishes.

Full account of dinner is here:
http://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2017/10/the-flowery-chairman.html

Recommended in Hong Kong

Address

3rd Floor, The Wellington, 198 Wellington St, Central

Hours

Open hours

Phone

+85225552202

Website

https://www.thechairmangroup.com/