Lai Ching Heen’s Pear with Scallops

One of the most innovative restaurants offering the new Chinese cuisine of Hong Kong is Lai Ching Heen, in The Regent Hotel in Kowloon. Of the many dishes I have enjoyed there, this one epitomizes for me the virtues of carefully considered innovations that revise and enhance traditional and classical foods but retain their excellence.

Here the thoughtful chef has cleverly combined the crisp, slightly sweet, Chinese pear apple with scallops. The split scallops are stuffed with freshl