Where a restaurant owner goes in Hong Kong and Singapore for wontons, ramen, chilli crab
Camille Glass, the French-American co-owner of Brut and Crushed Wines, loves noodles, Hainanese chicken, Myanmese food and har gow, of course
French-American restaurateur Camille Glass is the co-owner of Brut and Crushed Wines in Sai Ying Pun on Hong Kong Island. She spoke to Andrew Sun.
I once had a boyfriend who nicknamed me har gow, on account of the mountains of prawn dumplings I would blissfully inhale every chance I got.
I have never not been a food person. My mother tells me that as a baby I would eat fistfuls of roasted salmon slathered in blue cheese and spinach cream. Food has always been my love language and my greatest connector to the world.
I grew up between two homes in America. My mother’s meals were direct lines to her French roots. My father’s southern heritage gave me comfort foods like shrimp and grits. Two very different tables, both formative. My relationship with food took on a whole new shape when I moved to Hong Kong in 2012.