When I was in art school, I used to
proudly proclaim myself a maximalist. More is more. As such, when we
decided that our 3-Star Michelin experience would be a degustation
dinner at Caprice I couldn't help myself – we had to have lunch at
another 3-Star restaurant too, and on the same day. In making the
decision, we didn't want to do another French restaurant so L'Atelier
de Joel Robuchon was ruled out. Additionally, as much as I would like
to try Lung Kee Heen we already were going to be experiencing Tim Ho
Wan and the cheapness of Tim Ho Wan was enough to convince us to go
with the 1 Star dim sum experience instead (plus we had to have those
buns). That left us with Otto e Mezzo Bombana, the only 3-Star
Italian restaurant outside of Italy, and home to Umberto Bombana –
a man so famous for his advocacy and use of the white truffle that
he's even called 'The King of the White Truffle'. As luck would have
it, we timed our honeymoon and trip to Hong Kong during what is white
truffle season, meaning Chef Bombana's seasonal white truffle menu
was available for our selection.
