As the third wave of Covid-19 hit the city, the Hong Kong government required restaurants to limit their dine-in hours to between 5am and 6pm, meaning only takeaway meals can be purchased at dinnertime. Unless you are an intermittent faster who restricts your eating to just a small window of daylight hours, this news is hardly exciting.
Somehow, the meal between breakfast and lunch became fashionable, but eating the final meal of the day in that awkward late-afternoon, early-evening space became more associated with grandparents and schoolchildren who need to be in bed by 7pm.
Unlike the endlessly Instagrammed avocado on toast, açai bowls and pancake stacks of brunch-time, smartphone-toting influencers haven’t yet capitalised on the culinary hinterland between 3pm and 6pm. So what do we call it? The internet says ‘lunner’…
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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2020