How good is Jamie Oliver’s new Hong Kong kids’ menu? We asked five children to rate it

Is it true children will only eat greasy junk food and despise fruit and vegetables? That’s what most Hong Kong restaurants serving children’s menus seem to think, to judge by the lack of variety on offer.

“I’m not usually very fussy. I like bananas. My mum used to teach me how to do banana guns,” says Jeremiah Buffalo Wong, six, demonstrating how to shoot a banana. “Vegetables are the hard part for me ... I don’t think I can do vegetables.”

“I like to eat choi, because it’s crunchy,” says Maximo Serrano-Chan, seven. “And salad, because it’s yummy and you can put salt and vinegar on it.”

Do we even need kids’ menus? Shouldn’t children just learn to eat what their parents are having? Hannah Lee, nine, thinks they’re a good idea, as some adult food may not be appropriate for small children. “Usually it’s only Western restaurants that have kids’ menus,” she says. “I’m not sure why – maybe because Chinese food is a wide range and children are OK with it.”

“We don’t really need them, all we need is adult menus but in smaller portions,” says Hugo Serrano-Chan, nine. “Kids’ food doesn’t always have to be the same thing.”