Europe Meets Asia

Hongkong’s Floating Restaurant

JUMBO KINGDOM
Cuisine: Cantonese and Seafood
Price range: 130-500HKD

Traveling to a foreign country for the first time, we are all expected to be googling the top restaurants and bars existing in the country or probably had asked a friend or two on whereabouts to eat based on their own travel experience. Better yet if you are lucky enough, a friend living in town for years would even be a better source. But most of the time we find ourselves in the same restaurants as other tourists are, which ends up with long queues during holidays. But anyway, it would be quite an interesting story for the next dinner with your friends. And you know that yeah-I’ve-been-there-It’s-cool when you talk to the first timers? Yeah..makes you feel like a pro.

Jumbo Kingdom is no different; it has been in Hongkong for 36 years. But with regards to restaurants, you know it’s good when it stayed in the mainstream for years. It is a fine-dining Cantonese and Seafood restaurant that took four years and millions of dollars to be designed and built. The style is of a gorgeous, exquisite ancient Chinese imperial palace you would think you are entering a Chinese palace and even inside, it really does look like one.

Mainly, our dining table was set with a heavy black stone carved with ancient Chinese writing as a placemat with a nicely folded embroidered cloth as our table napkin. There was a mini statue of Buddha as a centerpiece, which they put away when the dishes are to be served.

The food was impeccably Chinese but Cantonese, which is totally different from many other Chinese food I should say.

But it was quite an experience. I found myself having a Cantonese dinner with 7 Kazakhs in Hongkong. Talking about global fusion in this blog is certainly well applied in my personal life as well.

Here are a few of what we have tried. My personal favorite was the Peking Duck.