HK Food Expo serves up top selection of tasty treats and a chance to win HK$7,000 of abalone
The food fair, happening from August 11 to 15, boasts escargot caviar and a HK$120,000 Puer tea cake, among other choice goodies
Escargot caviar, a HK$120,000 Puer tea cake and a HK$1 game to win HK$7,000 worth of abalone are among key highlights of the annual Hong Kong food expo, starting August 11.
Those with deep pockets can taste the delicate flavour of snail caviar from Malaga, Spain, which makes its debut in the city, and the precious Puer tea cake, made in 1988.
“The almost 30-year-old tea cake has a mixed flavour of plum and grapefruit, with a fragrance of aged tea wood,” said Helen Feng Caixia, director of the tea house offering the Puer tea cake. “Only a tea cake kept for more than 20 years has such flavours.”
The food fair is also split into a Gourmet Zone for those with more expensive tastes, and a Public Hall for the general public to sample new products.
The expo will also feature a 3.5m “wishing tree”, the stage for a competition to take home an impressive load of abalone. The contest accepts the first 10 people to pay a nominal fee of HK$1 each, and involves throwing fake abalone and gift bags onto the tree branches.
