Wednesday, April 18, 2001, updated at 08:51(GMT+8)
Life
Gourmet Delights Await Early May Visitors to HK
The Hong Kong Tourism Board will stage in May this year the annual Hong Kong Gourmet Delights celebration to attract more visitors to Hong Kong, which enjoys the reputation as one of world's greatest gourmet cities.
The tourism board said on Tuesday that the gourmet celebration, to run from May 1 to 14, will be a feature event in the new City of Life: Hong Kong is it Program, designed to showcase the huge variety of different attractions on offer in every district of Hong Kong.
The event is a veritable banquet of different activities, featuring special theme feasts, district food festivals, gourmet tours and culinary workshops hosted by some of Hong Kong's best known chefs, the tourism board said.
On the top of the menu this year will be a series of seven " Dining Classics", special banquets on different themes, each offered by a specific restaurant throughout the two-week promotion.
The Hong Kong Tourism Board will stage in May this year the annual Hong Kong Gourmet Delights celebration to attract more visitors to Hong Kong, which enjoys the reputation as one of world's greatest gourmet cities.