Dungeon Dining at its finest - Mott 32, Hong Kong

Finding Mott 32 in the base of the Standard Chartered building is a challenge.  The foyer is so brightly lit that it doesn't seem possible that it's the right place. Keep walking, up the stairs and veer to the left and there's a door.  It's not the door to the restaurant.  It's the door to a room that leads nowhere. But it will, eventually, lead to one of the best meals in Hong Kong. 

There's a lot of service.  Apparently, it takes three to move you from the mystery reception desk to the secret stairs. Down the elevator. Into a mirrored spiral staircase, down, down, down and then down some more. So down that you start to worry about making it back up again.

And then you emerge into a vault, perhaps the original vault of the bank.  It's spacious. It's full of nooks with pools of light over tables, and walls of bottles and art.

The char sui here is a must.  It's jamon iberico basted with the sticky marinade that is char sui but the fattiness of the meat delivers a just cooked pork, an evolution from the traditional warmed drier version. It falls off the fork. And the smell! Sweet. Smokey. Porkey. 

Shu Mai with lobster. 

Extraordinary tofu with pork floss.

A delicately balanced bowl of fish in chilli broth.

Drama, great food, and an impressive wine list.

Mott 32 - you delighted.