‘Hong Kong is another world’: Italian chef Antonia Klugmann on her first trip to the city

This is your first trip not only to Hong Kong but to Asia as well. What are your impressions? “I rarely trip, and then it’s only for work. Hong Kong is another world. I was shocked to see dried fish. It’s so different from Italian dried food. We don’t have as many varieties, like scallops, fish stomach, octopus, whole dried duck.”You grew up in Trieste, in north­eastern Italy. What was it like? “We have people from everywhere – Turkish, Serbians, Croatians, Slovenians, British, Italian,…