bo innovation x anthony bourdain

While chatting with a friend today, we started talking about Bo Innovation and he alerted me to the Hong Kong episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservation where the chef, Alvin Leung, appears in one of the segment (4.00 onwards) serving Bourdain at his restaurant. Recently awarded 2 Michelin stars, Leung is one of the first people to radically reinterpret Chinese cuisine, deconstructing classic Chinese dishes and applying unconventional cooking methods (to avoid the term molecular gastronomy). Having only seen pictures of Wong (with blue hair, tattoos), he is every bit the character that I imagined him to be, perhaps a little more eloquent and acidic. Shock, confusion and delight are the keywords to describing the experience of dining at Bo Innovation. Having been there a couple of times last year, the taste of lap mei fan ice cream and oxtail caviar xiao long bao still lingers in my mind, I'm yearning to go back.