The city of Hong Kong was recently visited by a television crew for the purpose of filming a documentary series about the culture of the area. Led by the Japanese boy band Johnny’s West, the crew was quickly won over by the delectable cuisine they experienced while exploring the city, with social media being flooded with praise.
Hong Kong’s cheap and tasty cuisine – including its iconic two-dish-rice offering – has been lavished with praise by a visiting Japanese television crew making a documentary about the city’s culture and food.Social media has been abuzz with positive chatter about Hong Kong’s culinary credentials since news of the documentary – which is fronted by one of Japan’s top boy bands, Johnny’s West – emerged.The seven-member band are making a series of four episodes about the city’s food and culture, visiting areas such as Mong Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon peninsula and Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island.
In the second episode, host Ryusei Fujii first visits Yau Ma Tei and sees dozens of people queuing outside a famous restaurant to buy two-dish-rice, a cheap and cheerful Hong Kong-style meal consisting of two main dishes and a generous portion of rice.
The two dishes the crew plump for are fried prawns with broccoli and sweet and sour pork. The assistant director of the programme describes it as “the best meal I’ve had” during his 10-day stay in Hong Kong.