What’s on at the Hong Kong Food Expo 2019 in August?

The Hong Kong Food Expo 2019 will be held August 15-19 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center.

The 30th Food Expo will comprise three sections — the Public Hall, Gourmet Zone and Trade Hall. The highly anticipated Gourmet Zone will be open to public ticket-holders for four days. Gathering more than 90 exhibitors, the zone will present five themes: Asian Cuisine, Western Delicacy, Sweet Delight, Green Palate and the all-new Coffee Avenue, serving up delicacies from renowned local and overseas brands. Highlighted products include a local craft coffee beer, a truffle ice-cream with truffle flakes and a Japanese plum wine sorbet that takes only a night in the freezer to make.

The Public Hall features close to 600 exhibitors, including five group pavilions — from Mainland China, Canada, Japan, Korea and Taiwan — to offer visitors a five-day international gastronomic extravaganza. Featured products include an all-new quinoa and fish maw sweet soup dessert created by a Hong Kong brand, frozen popcorn, a Japanese sake set featuring bottles adorned with 12 illustrations of Hong Kong’s attractions and an authentic German pork knuckle.

At the Premium Food Zone, more than 30 renowned brands will exhibit, including Appolo, Chewy International, Kee Wah Bakery, Maxim’s Group, Nissin Foods, On Kee Dry Seafood, Tai Pan and many others. Hang Heung Cake Shop, European Gourmet and Cheong Kwan Jang will all make their debuts at this zone. And, as Hong Kong consumers become increasingly health and diet conscious, the Vegetable Marketing Organization and Fish Marketing Organization will display some of the city’s premier agricultural and fishery products.

The Trade Hall, meanwhile, will open to trade buyers during the first two days of the fair (15 — 16 August) and to public ticket-holders on the final day (17 August). More than 900 exhibitors including 22 group pavilions will showcase their products at the hall, along with two themed product zones, Chinese Medicine and Halal Food. Featured products include black wagyu beef from Arita, Japan, a Normandy apple cider and Thai low-calorie salad dressings with various flavours.

In addition, during the first four nights of the expo, a Night Bazaar will open from 7pm to 10pm with more than 30 exhibitors offering further discounts. And a series of exciting activities will be staged throughout the fair, including cooking demonstrations by 17 celebrity chefs. They include popular TV cooking show hosts Steve Lee and Helen Tam, plus four leading chefs — Takashi Tamura, the 3rd generation Chef of Tsukiji Tamura, Ming Leung, Executive Chef of Ah Yat Harbour View Restaurant, Jacky Chung, Executive Chef of J & T Restaurant Ltd, and Lai Wai-hung, founder of Hung’s Delicacies and Master Hung — who will demonstrate various “less salt, less sugar” recipes.

Other highlighted activities at the Food Expo include the launch of the 2019 — 2020 Wan Chai à La Carte food map, the Coffee X Chocolate — Find the Perfect Match seminar, which helps coffee lovers find the ideal chocolates to go with their brew, and a seminar on table manners.

The text/image source: official exhibition website Event HTDCK Food Expo 2019