Voted Asia’s best female chef in 2017, May Chow is still awaiting Michelin recognition. Perhaps her restaurants are a little casual and her food a little too popular for the refined tastes of the guide’s inspectors? Whatever it is, Little Bao remains one of our favourite restaurants in the city. What’s impressive about the restaurant is how Chow has taken familiar products and flavours — such as miso, pickled daikon, mushrooms and pork belly — that have been favourites in Hong Kong for decades, and given them a new, glorious life.