TravelLeisureSoutheastAsia-April2018

26 APRIL 2018 / TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM

/ in the neighborhood/

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Steep

streets in Sai Ying Pun; coffee

and brekkie at Brew Bros;

BlackSalt’s homey interior.

Founded in 1922,

Yu Kwen Yick’s chili

sauce is beloved by

locals. FAR RIGHT:

Mrs. So’s XO sauce.

EAT The

second branch of

popular Sheung

Wan café Brew

Bros ( b.com/

brewbroshillroad),

the Hill Road outpost

is a quiet corner to start your day.

Known as a slice of Australian

café culture in Hong Kong, here,

you can order smashed avo on

toast (choose between the classic

or their signature version, which

is topped with crab) from their

excellent breakfast menu. Their

specialty beans come all the

way from Melbourne’s boutique

coffee roaster Market Lane.

For lunch, stop into Qing Zuo

(Shop 2–3, Wah Fai Court, 1–6 Ying

SHOP Surprise your food-loving

friends at home with some of the

city’s best locally made sauces:

subtly spiked with garlic and

vinegar, Yu Kwen Yick (66A Third St.;

852/2568-8007) has made a favorite

chili sauce for almost a century.

At Mrs. So’s XO Sauce (xo-sauce.

com.hk) the eponymous condiment,

is deliciously chunky, packed with

dried scallops, Yunnan ham and

more. They have a range of Chinese

sauces and you can taste them all at

this flagship store.

Thanks in part to Hong Kong’s

MTR, Sai Ying Pun is now hip, with

all-day cafés, boutique

restaurants and small bars

melding into a streetscape of

local markets and artisans,

writes Janice Leung Hayes.

Go West

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: MENDOWONG PHOTOGRAPHY/GETTY IMAGES; COURTESY OF BREW BROS (3); COURTE

SY OF BLACKSALT; ©MK2010/WIKIMEDI

A;

COURTESY OF ABOVE SECOND; COURTESY OF ALV Y'S (2); JONATHAN M

ALONE Y; COURTESY OF MRS. SO'S XO SAUCE; COURTESY OF YU K WEN YI

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