Chesa

Chesa

Type: Fine Dining of Authentic Swiss Food in a Cozy Chalet Setting

Location: 1/F, The Peninsula Hong Kong,

Salisbury Road, Kowloon

Chesa is one of the best dining restaurants to have romantic dinners or celebrate anniversaries.  Located at the first floor in The Peninsula Hotel, severing Swiss-like foods and global wines, whenever you walk in to this Swiss chalet, you will sniff the smell of wood mingled with strong flavor of cheese and wine, you will definitely intoxicated by this aroma and its cozy atmosphere.  The waiters there are friendly who can give you all dishes recommendation base on your preference, you can spend a relaxing night served with good Swiss food and service there at a relatively reasonable price towards other fine dinning restaurants in Hong Kong.

Bread Basket

Appetizer: Crab meat pancake with lobster-Armagnac cappuccino. (Original named as Crêpe au crabe, cappuccino à l’homardine et Armagnac) It’s a very delicious hot appetizer which the pancake roll is flooded with crab meat with the lobster sauce is just a perfect match.  

Crêpe au crabe, cappuccino à l’homardine et Armagnac

Must Try item: Hot melted cheese with new potatoes, pickled onions and gherkins (Raclette du Valais)

It is one of Switzerland's best loved national dishes.  The most famous and best Raclette cheese is made in the alpine villages in the Swiss Alps, it is warm melted cheese served with new potatoes and pickles.  People in Swiss are so lucky that they can enjoy the best melted cheese at their homeland everyday.  However, it is rare to find it in Hong Kong especially authentic Raclette cheese come from Swiss by air.  Chesa's Raclette cheese has strong cheese and milky flavor, when this melted cheese is chewing in mouth, its warm, tasty and smooth texture will impress every cheese lover.

Raclette du Valais

Main Dish: Beef cheek-au-feu with root vegetables and hint of horseradish. (Pot-au-feu au joue de boeuf, légumes racines et raifort) The beef cheek is very tender, rich and beefy, yet quite fatty.

Pot-au-feu au joue de boeuf, légumes racines et raifort

Cheese Specialities: Traditional Swiss fondue with Gruyère and Emmental, served with baguette. (Fondue Vaudoise) A rich and nourishing dish prepared with top-grade cheese that stays thick and creamy texture.  If you are not familiar with the traditional Swiss chesse fondue, perhaps may find the white wine mixed into this fondue is quite strong.  However, if you are a Swiss Cheese fondue lover, you will appreciate how traditional and tasty it is.

Fondue Vaudoise

Cheese Fondue in candlelight dinner

Very Swiss Chalet Surroundings

Kam Wah Cafe & Bakery

Kam Wah Cafe & Bakery
location: 47 Bute St, Mongkok, Kowloon. (Prnce Edward MTR B2 Exit)

Generally speaking,"pineapple bun" and "milk tea" is a typical Hong Kong style high tea combination.  Tasteful pineapple buns and good mike tea indicate how successful a cafe is obtained in Hong Kong.

Kam Wah is a popular local cafe in Hong Kong.   There is always very crowded, especially during weekend at 3:15p.m. high tea time. However, this cafe is not for you to have a drink and chat with friends in relaxaton.   Instead, you may find the food arrive at summer lightning's speed and so many people in and out at seconds. Here, what you enjoy is their famous pineapple bun and egg tart.  So to avoid the crowded people, it is recommended to go on a weekday, or buy their signature bun for take away is another option.

Inside the cafe, full of people

Pineapple bun is Kam Wah's signature dishes (or Pineapple bun "with butter"),  the crust of its Pineapple bun is extraordinary crunchy, when it is just baked, the delicious smell of baking bread is overflowing, it is the perfect time to put the lemon favour butter into the warm baked bun and bit into it, just let the butter melts lightly in the warm crusty bun inside your mouth.



Crusty Pineapple Bun

Moreover, many people will also like its egg tart, chicken pie, spiced fried chicken wings or other fresh hand-made baking bread like Mexico bun and cross bun.  There is a must-try tea set: 2 chicken wings and 1 egg tart with (hot) drink, which cost HK$24.(cold drink add extra HK$2)  And you can add to order the Pineapple bun for HK$4, or with butter for HK$6.  Within HK$35, you can try their signature foods as well as a perfect Hong Kong style high tea combo!



A tea set with two Pineapple buns



Awards on wall



People outside the cafe, waiting for fresh baked bun