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Hong Kong’s Top Rising Culinary Stars

  • Top Chef Creations showcases the city’s young restaurateurs, chefs and mixologists making waves in the industry.
  • This year’s Wine & Dine Festival puts the spotlight on 15 of the city’s future leaders in the food and beverage sector.

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From left to right: Cobo House’s executive chefs Devon Hou and Ray Choi; Financier-turned-chef Sandy Keung pioneered ingredient-based cuisine at her restaurant TABLE; Junno Li, executive chef at The Chinese Library.

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Top Chef Creations at Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival showcases 15 rising stars on the city’s culinary scene. Hong Kong is the perfect place for young talents to thrive – and there is a lot of great talent on the food and beverage scene here. Included in this category are restaurateurs, chefs, mixologists, pastry chefs and baristas. 

Sandy Keung 

Sandy Keung was in finance before moving into the food and beverage sector. After 10 years in the catering business, she opened her first full-service restaurant TABLE in 2014, followed by a barbecue restaurant chain a year later. TABLE specialises in seafood with a twist. Her team decides on how to prepare a dish according to one of the ingredients. Keung calls it ingredient-based cuisine. Dishes employ French, Spanish, Mediterranean, Japanese, Chinese and Korean flavours and preparation techniques. She also has an in-house marine biologist overseeing the ozone depuration tank where live seafood such as oysters, lobsters and crabs are purged of metabolic waste, toxins and pollutants. 

Junno Li 

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The skilled chef behind The Chinese Library is known for putting a contemporary spin on dim sum and other traditional Chinese dishes, to the delight of many diners. His reputation has grown greatly in just three years. Starting his culinary career in China, he gained experience in Cantonese, Sichuan and Shanghainese cuisines under the guidance of a master chef, who also taught Li the art of fruit and vegetable carving. 

Devon Hou and Ray Choi 

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