From 5 October Chow will take up residency at the hotel restaurant with a menu centred on siu mei and Hong Kong comfort food.
Taking over Little Blue Noodle Bar’s 25-seat space, the concept is designed for drinking and eating at the same time. The siu mei selection will include Tamworth pork collar char siu marinated with red fermented bean curd, red yeast rice and Mei Kuei Lu rose wine; and a wagyu beef short rib char siu with black fermented bean, five spice, aged tangerine peel, peanut and honey.
Other dishes will include raw scallop with cucumber, coriander and green peppercorn; Salt Marsh lamb tartare with fermented bean curd, pickled mustard greens and fried bean curd; crispy cuttlefish with seaweed and black garlic; warm eggplant with chilli garlic and pine nuts; and a pan-fried dumpling with braised short rib and black vinegar.
The menu will also feature sharing plates and exclusive rice and noodle dishes created especially for the residency, such as king prawn and peanut braised noodles with ginger, garlic, shallot, spring onion and yellow chives and finished with roasted sesame-peanut dressing and house-made prawn-head chilli oil.
For dessert, duckshit oolong ice cream will be served alongside deep-fried apple mochi.
The drinks programme has been developed to complement the food and explore the relationship between Cantonese food and acidity, salinity, savouriness, fermentation and age, with an emphasis on wines and sake with texture and depth.
Cocktails will include a Hong Kong lemon tea with Bison vodka, black tea, lemon and sweet soy; a spritz with Cynar, honey, lemon and grapefruit soda; a chrysanthemum margarita with blanco tequila, chrysanthemum and Cointreau; and a five-spice gin & tonic with cinnamon, clove, star anise, orange and ginger.
An influential figure in modern Chinese cuisine, Chow has helped shape Hong Kong’s dining scene through her restaurants Little Bao and Happy Paradise. The youngest recipient of the Asia’s Best Female Chef Award, Chow has also featured on Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown and appeared as a finale judge on Top Chef Masters.
May Chow at Little Blue Noodle Bar will run at The Peninsula London from 5 October to 1 November 2026.