Soho hides its best new tables down its least obvious doors, and Lazy Suzy Hong Kong is about as Soho as it gets: a basement room you reach off a back lane, serving a menu that reads like a Cantonese kitchen and an American diner had a very good argument. This is fusion with a sense of humour — and, more importantly, a sense of place.
The work of chef-owner Natalie Ngan, Lazy Suzy bills itself as a "Canto-American restaurant, drinking hole and more". In practice that means squid toast and fried chicken slicked in Hong Kong's own Yu Kwen Yick chilli sauce on one page, and mapo mac and cheese on the next. Here's what it serves, where to find it, what it costs, and whether it's worth the climb up to Staunton Street.
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Why Lazy Suzy Is Worth the Detour
Soho is not short of restaurants, but it is short of ones with a genuinely original point of view. Lazy Suzy has one. Rather than another straight Italian or natural-wine bar, it leans hard into Canto-American cooking — the flavours of a Hong Kong childhood run through an American comfort-food filter, plated with a wink.
Part of the charm is the room itself. The restaurant occupies a basement at 21 Staunton Street (士丹頓街), with its entrance down Tsun Wing Lane rather than on the main drag — the kind of half-hidden Soho address that rewards people who know to look. It sits in the thick of the city's busiest nightlife grid, the same Central and Soho strip we map in our pick of the best cocktail bars in Hong Kong.
It also lands at a lively moment for the city's kitchens — one we round up in our guide to the new restaurants opening in Hong Kong this June, and explore in why Hong Kong's food scene is having a moment. Lazy Suzy is exactly the kind of small, chef-led opening driving that energy.
Lazy Suzy
A Canto-American restaurant and basement drinking hole from chef-owner Natalie Ngan, serving playful Hong-Kong-meets-USA fusion plates and a full bar in the heart of Soho.
What Is Canto-American Food, and What Should You Order?
Canto-American is exactly what it sounds like: Cantonese flavours and Hong Kong store-cupboard staples crossed with American comfort food. It is a natural fit for a city raised on cha chaan teng macaroni soup and baked pork-chop rice — Hong Kong has been quietly doing East-meets-West on a plate for decades, a heritage we trace in our guide to Hong Kong's best cha chaan tengs. Lazy Suzy just turns the dial up and sends it to dinner.
The fusion is in the details. The fried chicken arrives laced with Yu Kwen Yick — the fierce, garlicky chilli sauce in the squat glass jar that has lived in Hong Kong fridges for generations — and a ranch made with fermented bean curd (fu yu) instead of buttermilk. The mac and cheese gets a mapo makeover, all numbing Sichuan heat and savoury depth. Even the barramundi comes Sichuan-spiced. None of it is fusion for fusion's sake; the local references are real.
| Dish | What it is | Price (HKD) |
|---|---|---|
| Squid toast | Crisp, savoury prawn-toast cousin, per piece | $78 |
| Fried chicken | Yu Kwen Yick chilli glaze, fermented-bean-curd ranch | $118 |
| Mapo mac & cheese | Mac and cheese with numbing Sichuan mapo sauce | $138 |
| Sichuan-spiced barramundi | Whole-fillet main with Sichuan heat | $198 |
What to Order at Lazy Suzy
This is sharing food with a drink in your other hand, so build a table that swings from crunchy to saucy to spicy. Here's a sensible first run for two or three.
A first-timer's order
- Squid toast (HK$78/pc) — the obvious opener; crisp, savoury and made for a cold drink.
- Fried chicken (HK$118) — the house signature; the Yu Kwen Yick chilli and fu-yu ranch are the whole pitch in one bite.
- Mapo mac & cheese (HK$138) — the dish everyone photographs; rich, numbing and very shareable.
- Sichuan-spiced barramundi (HK$198) — the heftier main if you want a centrepiece.
- A cocktail or two — this is a "drinking hole" as much as a kitchen, so lean in.
It is a strong addition to any night that starts with dinner and drifts into drinks, and it earns a place on a running list of the city's best restaurants in Hong Kong for sheer originality.
Where Is It, and How Much Does It Cost?
Lazy Suzy sits in the basement of 21 Staunton Street, in the heart of Soho (蘇豪) on Hong Kong Island, with its entrance tucked down Tsun Wing Lane. The easiest approach is Exit D2 of Central MTR followed by a five-to-eight-minute, mostly uphill walk, or a hop onto the Central–Mid-Levels Escalator, which runs right up to Staunton Street. Either way, you are deep in bar-and-restaurant country once you arrive.
On price, this is a Soho sit-down rather than a cheap eat. Individual plates run from about HK$78 for squid toast to HK$118 for the fried chicken, HK$138 for the mapo mac and cheese and HK$198 for the barramundi. Share a few with cocktails and a rough budget lands around HK$300–450 a head — treat that as an estimate and check the current menu, which you can view on the restaurant's website.
Before you go
A couple of things to plan around. First, the hours: Lazy Suzy runs Tuesday to Saturday from 5pm to midnight, with shorter Sunday hours and closed on Mondays — and as a new venue, timings can shift, so confirm the Sunday slot before you head over. Second, it is a small basement room in a busy nightlife zone, so book ahead through SevenRooms for a weekend table rather than chancing a walk-in.
Is Lazy Suzy Worth It?
If you like your dinner with a bit of personality, yes. The appeal here is not a tasting-menu hush; it is a chef having fun with the flavours she grew up with, in a room built for a long evening. The Yu Kwen Yick fried chicken and the mapo mac and cheese are the kind of dishes that only make sense in Hong Kong, and that is precisely the point.
It won't be for everyone — fusion this playful never is, and a basement drinking hole is a vibe before it is a destination. But for a fun, original, drink-friendly dinner in the middle of Soho, with a menu that actually says something about the city, Lazy Suzy is a genuinely welcome arrival. Bring friends, order the chicken, and stay for one more.
For the full menu, hours and bookings, see Lazy Suzy's official website and its Instagram (@lazysuzy), and see where it sits among the season's arrivals in Foodie's June 2026 openings round-up.
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