OKRA KITCHEN

HK$400 per person

G/F, 110 Queen’s Road West, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong

TEL: +852 2806 1038

www.okra.kitchen In many ways Okra Kitchen is a restaurant that captures the current zeitgeist. It has a global perspective, is inclusive of multiculturalism and not afraid of being straight-up weird. The lowkey space serves izakaya-inspired fare, but nothing would be found on a traditional izakaya menu. Following the concept of small plates suited for alcohol pairing, dishes incorporate Japanese ingredients or flavours but are filtered through a lens of locality and personality. Quirky dishes such as Nigari Sai farmhouse tofu looks like cubes of goat cheese or fermented soy bean paste, but a surprisingly creamy texture is a nice contrast to the Okra “black pigeon sauce”. An indicator of Okra’s shrug to conventional contemporary restaurant culture is the strangely named hentai pigeon tatsuta. Available in “original style” or “spicy flavour”, the latter resembled American buffalo wings. The hot sauce is spicy, acidic and sharp, marrying well to the slightly salty, gamey meat. Thankfully, the resulting dish wasn’t anything nearly as bizarre or perverse as the name suggests. Contrasting the smirk-inducing menu, the sake list at Okra should be taken seriously. Identified by season, the sake menu features a unique selection of natural, unpasteurised sake.

In many ways, Okra Kitchen is a restaurant that captures the current zeitgeist

Okra Kitchen is a hotbed of creative culinary energy