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An insider’s guide to dining in Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions: curry, chicken kebab, an African rice dish to fight over – a food tour with refugee turned banker Innocent Mutanga
- Some Hongkongers have never ventured into Chungking Mansions, which opened in 1961. For others, it is home to their favourite restaurants and shops
- Innocent Mutanga, founder of the Africa Centre, takes us to three of his favourite places to eat – Ghana Locals, Sher-E-Punjab and Bismillah Kebab House
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Where to eat in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong’s iconic building of diversity
“Do you want curry?” asks a South Asian man handing out fliers to anyone approaching the famed Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong.
Many like him linger at its entrance, promoting restaurants and shops within the complex – famed for its cheap accommodation, goods and food – on Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Some Hongkongers have never ventured into the large complex that opened in 1961 and includes five blocks of 17 storeys. For others, Chungking Mansions is home.
People from across South Asia and various African countries live and work in the complex.
For Innocent Mutanga, Chungking Mansions was a refuge. After he fled Zimbabwe in southern Africa in 2013 during Robert Mugabe’s rule as president, he came to Hong Kong, which he was able to enter without a visa.
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