2 Neighborhood
If we are talking about special rice dishes, how can you forget Neighborhood, the royalty of speciality dishes? This modern European establishment, sandwiched in-between art galleries and antique shops, offers a slew of rice dishes that make the most of seasonal ingredients in their prime, such as the Hairy Crab Paella, where a bed of rice is cooked in rich umami flavours and served with hairy crabs on top, as well as the Hokkaido Kinki Paella, where a whole fish is spilt in half and presented delicately on top of the rice.
A year-round staple on Neighborhood’s menu is the signature Salt-baked Chicken Rice with Yellow Wine and Morels ($980), which is one of our favourites. A whole chicken is baked in salt and cracked open in front of astounded diners, then laid it out on a massive casserole dish filled with rice, generous medallions of foie gras, and plenty of earthy morels. If you plan ahead and visit during truffle season, you can even get truffle shavings on top to really elevate the flavours of the whole rice dish!
Neighborhood, G/F, 61–63 Hollywood Road, Soho, Central | (+852) 2617 0891