At the entrance you are welcomed by hundreds of lucky cats, swaying their hands to you, as ‘Ho Lee Fook’ literally means ‘good fortune for your mouth’ in Chinese. You can also look at the food cooking with the nice open kitchen before going down the stairs. The huge peacock portrait gives you this look saying ‘you can go but be aware that you’re entering a nice place, so I’m watching you’. So we entered with Marie, Aurelie, Marina and some other friends.

One of our friends knew the menu and ordered for us seven/eight dishes to share, directly making us dive into the heart of the matter. We had fried tofu and fish, eggplants and tory and thousand spices to bring out flavours. I must admit that sharing dishes with 8 people was hard and the portions at the end where quite small, we should have taken more!

The highlight of the dinner at least for me was the beef with 5 spices- salt we tried as the last dish. We couldn’t determine the flavour we tasted which was very complex, a little bit aniseed with a touch of curry-flavour. Everybody had its guess bud nobody found the 5 spices and it was a big surprise when the waiter finally explained us.

Only downside: the loud music. They may have wanted to be too ‘#cool’ by playing trendy music to feel like in a nightclub. But the latest feeling we had is to not be able to hear the waiter’s words and even less our own conversations.