Hon’s BBQ Christmas Platter

Hon’s BBQ, the east London smokehouse from pitmaster Man Hon Luk, is celebrating its first Christmas with a new festive sharing platter that pays homage to Hon’s Hong Kong heritage. Combining the restaurant’s low-and-slow cooking with Cantonese soy-braised meat, grilled vegetables and glutinous rice, the result sits somewhere between Hong Kong roast meat shop and traditional Christmas dinner.

Trimmings include Brussels sprouts, which are given the treatment of the restaurant’s best-selling typhoon shelter green beans, sticky rice studded with lap cheong sausage and roasted chestnut, and a festive preserved plum sauce.

And of course, it wouldn’t be Christmas dinner without the turkey, which is treated in the manner of Hong Kong’s see yao (soy sauce) roast meats. The bird spends two days in a wet brine of master stock with star anise, cassia bark, Sichuan peppercorn, light and dark soy and Chinese rose wine. It is then dry-rubbed with sand ginger, salt, pepper and sesame oil, and smoked for three hours.

Landing in the restaurant on Wednesday 25th November, the festive sharing platter is priced at £38 and will be running until Wednesday 23rd December. Bookings are open and can be made through honsbbq.com