Sushi, amazing plant-based burgers and a pineapple bun that’s irresistible – places where a Hong Kong marketing chief loves to eat

Jessica Chong Pui-pui, head of strategic marketing at Henderson Land Group, heads to Treehouse for its plant-based menu, stand-out flatbread and friendly staff

She would take visitors to hotel restaurants like Amber, Tosca di Angelo and Man Wah, as well as spots like Luk Yu Tea House and Maxim’s Palace for dim sum

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The plant-based Forest burger at Treehouse restaurant in Central, marketing chief Jessica Chong’s go-to place for “light, healthy and tasty” food. Photo: SCMP/Tory Ho

Published: 5:15pm, 15 Dec 2021Updated: 5:53pm, 15 Dec 2021

Jessica Chong Pui-pui is head of strategic marketing at Henderson Land Group, which is joining social enterprise Cookie Smiles to support holiday giving with pop-up shops from December 20 to December 22 in three of its properties. She speaks to Andrew Sun.

I’m pretty simple. I like a variety of foods depending on who I hang out with. Generally, I prefer surf over turf.

My favourite spots include Cuisine Cuisine (3/F, The Mira, 118 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2315 5222). From delicate dim sum to sumptuous broiled soup, the restaurant doesn’t disappoint me.

Treehouse (The Steps, H Code, 45 Pottinger Street, Central, tel: 3791 2277) is my go-to place for something light, healthy and tasty. It serves an eco-friendly, plant-based menu that is made from local and organic ingredients. While the burgers taste amazing, it’s the flatbreads that are the star of the show – so fluffy and soft. And the staff are very friendly and cheerful, making me feel like I’m hanging out with friends.

Tofu with shrimp paste and morel mushrooms from Cuisine Cuisine. Photo: Cuisine Cuisine

Duck pie, peach pancakes and egg tarts at the Luk Yu Tea House.

Before Covid-19, when I had overseas visitors, I took them to both great hotel restaurants as well as local authentic eateries. The former would include Amber (7/F, The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Central, tel: 2132 0066), Tosca di Angelo (102/F, The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, ICC, 1 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 2263 2270) and Man Wah (25/F, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, 5 Connaught Road Central, Central, tel: 2825 4003). Typically, they all serve great surf as well as turf.