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Where a wine expert from France eats French food in Hong Kong, plus dim sum and hotpot

Originally from Montpellier, France, Romain Loriot is the founder of Hong Kong bar and online wine retailer ThinkWine. He spoke to Andrew Sun. Advertisement I grew up in Montpellier, in the south of France, next to the sea. I am from a family of classical musicians. My mother taught me to cook not for the love of food, but to get me to be independent. In the beginning, I wanted to be a pastry chef, but I decided to go into wine. My culinary adventure started with French chef-restaurateur Alain Ducasse. I worked for him for eight years, and had the amazing opportunity to come to Hong Kong to open Rech by Alain Ducasse . After two years, I decided to open my own business. My wife is Shanghainese, so we regularly go to Dynasty, Hong Kong (3/F, Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai. Tel: 2802 8888). I like the Peking duck and dim sum. It is very good. A variety of dishes from Dynasty, Hong Kong. Photo: Dynasty, Hong Kong Megan's Kitchen hotpot with bouillabaisse soup. Photo: SCMP We also love hotpot. We try different places but Megan's Kitchen (5/F, Lucky Centre, 165-171 Wan Chai Road, Wan Chai. Tel: 2866 8305) I am very impressed by. It does a soup with tomato and crab, and a soufflé. The thing is, we always have to have one non-spicy and one spicy soup base. I cannot handle too spicy.