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Favourite Hong Kong healthy food QSRs and sustainable dining options of an environmentally friendly dining advocate
- Heidi Yu Spurrell, who helps Hong Kong bars and restaurants become more green, loves the healthy fast food at Treehouse and Mana! and Uma Nota’s lunch sets
- For a fancy buffet she likes Alibi for its sustainable seafood, and she loves the ingredient-led eating at Amber and Mono
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Heidi Yu Spurrell is founder and CEO of the Hong Kong chapter of Food Made Good, a sustainability consultancy focusing on helping the food and beverage and retail sectors become more green.
I like to try everything once, so I’d say I’m quite adventurous. In general, though, I prefer lighter food and try to balance my plate with plenty of greens. If I can find a tasty plant-based option, I’ll choose that.
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I love seafood, but every choice needs to be thoughtfully made with sustainability always in mind. The current data shows that we should be eating more smaller fish and shellfish and less of the big five – salmon, cod, haddock, tuna and prawns.
Hong Kong is full of amazing restaurants so it’s really hard to choose, but I keep returning to Spicebox Organics (two branches, including Golden Valley Mansion, 137 Caine Road, Mid-Levels, tel: 2559 9887), Arcane (3/F, 18 On Lan Street, Central, tel: 2728 0178) and Bedu (40 Gough Street, Central, tel: 2320 4450). It’s also important to support small female-led businesses.
Additionally I like healthy QSRs [quick service restaurants] like Treehouse (H Code, 45 Pottinger Street, Central, tel: 3791 2277) and Mana! (8 Staunton Street, Central, tel: 5501 7583) that are great for grab-and-go or delivery. There’s also Cafe 8 (Rooftop, Pier 8, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Central, tel: 3791 2158) for the social enterprise concept with a beautiful location.
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