Industry leaders say city’s dining scene needs to transform itself, with business in free fall following decades of bumper demand
Hong Kong’s restaurant sector is in crisis, with a wave of closures, shrinking margins and residents lured by cheaper options locally and across the border. In the first of a two-part series, the Post looks at the industry’s troubles and whether it can reinvent itself.
Hong Kong’s Metropol Restaurant has been bustling like the good old days in recent weeks as diners seek a last taste of favourites such as “har gow” and “siu mai” before its dim sum trolleys trundle away and it closes for good in September.
Among them on a recent weekday at the 35-year-old Chinese restaurant was white-collar worker Christina Wong, 50, a regular when she was a teenager.
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