Eat like Bourdain: Hong Kong

Bourdain ate: beef-brisket noodles with wontons.

Lunch date: cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

Bourdain ate: drunken chicken, fish tripe, and egg-custard clay-pot dish with youtiao (fried breadsticks, “like a quiche”).

Dinner date: chef Gazza Cheng.

Bourdain ate: corn–and–fish ball soup; fried fish ball with dried scallop; dried shrimp and pork, with salted and cured egg yolks over rice; crispy pork belly with shrimp paste and yu choy.

Lunch date: Christopher Doyle and filmmaker Jenny Suen.

Bourdain ate: Fried pork cutlet over rice with tomato sauce, soup with macaroni, spam and egg, French toast with peanut butter and condensed milk, pineapple bun.

Lunch date: photojournalist Simon Go.

Bourdain ate: Northern Indian fare.

Lunch dates: John and Shamarke, two asylum seekers living in Hong Kong.

Bourdain ate: egg-custard buns, braised chicken feet, and other dim sum classics.

Lunch dates: Janice Lau and Jason Cheung, members of Hong Kong punk band David Boring.

Bourdain ate: sourdough chicken-fat egg waffle with Taiwanese bottarga; sauteed prawns with pan-roasted pumpkin, dried shrimp roe, and prawn oil; tea-smoked pigeon; Hakka-style chicken; and pig brain with burnt-pear vinaigrette.

Dinner dates: Jenny Suen, feng shui master Thierry Chow, and chef May Chow.

Bourdain ate: prawn-roe noodles.

Lunch date: Douglas Young, founder of Goods of Desire.