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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Enjoy a classic Christmas turkey at Regent Hong Kong this festive season. Photo: Handout

Where to enjoy Christmas dinner in Hong Kong this festive season

Belon’s brioche beef tartare with caviar is a masterpiece of precision and presentation. Photo: Belon

Dish in Focus: Brioche beef tartare with caviar at Belon

Hot Wine at The Aubrey, Hong Kong, one of the many seasonal drinks on offer in the city this year. Photo: Handout

Your 2025 guide to the best Christmas cocktails in Hong Kong

The World’s 50 Best Bars awards ceremony was held at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong this year. Photo: Dickson Lee

Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s F&B gurus on the highs and lows of 2025

Hong Kong’s hospitality sector faces staffing shortages, but start-up Shift Happens is offering a recruitment solution. Photo: Jelly Tse

Need restaurant staff? Shift Happens is here to help

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A selection of dishes at Happy Garden, in Darwin, Australia. The Chinese restaurant is one of 10 featured in Chopsticks or Fork?, a cookbook of 32 food recipes from across the country that tell the stories of the Chinese-Australians behind them. Photo: Jennifer Wong
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Cookbook celebrates the Chinese restaurants Australia’s small towns rely on

Chopsticks or Fork? is a cookbook based on a TV series of the same name that presents 32 Australian-Chinese food recipes from across Australia and tells the stories of the people behind them.

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How Asian brunch fusion food ‘creates conversations’ in the US

What to do in Hong Kong

5 food and drink happenings in Hong Kong this weekend July 26-28

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If you like durian, you’ll love this afternoon tea made by the ‘Durian Prince’

Malaysian chef in Hong Kong Danny Ho, known as the Durian Prince, is out to change the image of a much maligned fruit through Hotel Icon’s creative afternoon tea menu and Malaysian Durian Festival.

A dish from the “All About Durian Afternoon Tea” at The Market, in Hotel Icon. Photo: Hotel Icon
Indonesia

Indonesian pageant embodies Chinese community’s hopes of future under Prabowo

The community faced decades of discrimination under Suharto and has only been integrated into Indonesian society in recent years.

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Beef noodle soup, popcorn chicken: Taiwanese street food at Hong Kong pop-up

Taiwanese chef Marc Liao of Kaohsiung’s Marc L³ will serve Taiwanese night market food at a four-night pop-up in Hong Kong. It will be a far cry from his usual fine-dining fare.

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10 of the best new Hong Kong restaurants to try in May 2024

Hong Kong diners are spoiled for choice for new restaurants to try in May. Here are 10 must-visit places that serve Japanese favourites, Korean chicken, banh mi, Singaporean pizza and more.

Wagyu and sea urchin clay pot rice from Sukiyaki Nakagawa, one of the 10 best new Hong Kong restaurants to try in May 2024. Photo: Sukiyaki Nakagawa
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12 of the best new restaurants and bars in Hong Kong in April 2024

From a newly opened themed complex that pays tribute to 1960s and 70s Rome to a favourite dim sum restaurant’s revival, 12 of the best new restaurants and bars to try in Hong Kong.

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Mouthing Off | I don’t need a search engine to ‘white-splain’ Chinese New Year foods to me

Despite three of his pub quiz team being Chinese, Andrew Sun was surprised to be told their answer to a question about what food is traditionally eaten on Chinese New Year’s Day (Chinese puddings) was wrong.

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Chinese culture

Opinion | Lunar New Year red packets offer a link to Chinese culture, at home or abroad

Lunar New Year is an ideal time for cultural exchange that celebrates Chinese traditions, and one way to do that is making and giving lucky red packets, which also offer a link to the Chinese diaspora.

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A woman selects red envelopes at the Lunar New Year Flower and Gift Fair in Richmond, British Columbia, on February 2. The tradition of handing out red packets remains strong both in China and among Chinese communities overseas. Photo: Xinhua
Asia travel

The perfect weekend getaway? What to do in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi

Just a two-hour flight from Hong Kong, Hanoi is the perfect place for a short getaway. Here are some ideas of what to do, from shopping and hotels to traditional restaurants.

People practise tai chi beside Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi. The Vietnamese capital is the perfect place for a short getaway from Hong Kong. We look at what there is to do. Photo: Ed Peters
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11 Hong Kong restaurants and bars from which to see National Day fireworks

The October 1 fireworks show is returning in 2023 after a five-year hiatus – and there are plenty of new restaurants and bars from which to enjoy them.

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Does Berlin have a Chinatown? No – it has something better: Kantstrasse

West Berlin’s affluent Kantstrasse, home to a community of Chinese students since the late 19th century, has evolved into the German capital’s hotspot for all things East Asian, above all food.

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17 best new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in September 2023

Sushi restaurants continue to open despite the ban on seafood imports from around Fukushima, Japan, there’s a Moroccan coffee shop and Roman pizza in town, and several new openings in Kowloon.

Assorted pasta from Pentola in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Photo: Pentola
Chinese culture

‘Soft lum lum’? ‘Crispy bok bok’? Her dim sum Cantonese song went viral

UK-based Cantonese teacher Dorothy Lee talks about her educational dim sum song that went viral on Instagram three years after she uploaded it, and why the Chinese dialect is worth preserving.

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UK-based Cantonese teacher Dorothy Lee talks about her educational dim sum song that went viral on Instagram three years after she uploaded it. Photo: Locy Lee Learning
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Home from Home | ‘You’ll miss the food,’ they said when I left Hong Kong for the UK. And I do

Settling into life in the English countryside after 28 years in Hong Kong, Cliff Buddle is missing authentic Chinese food like that served at his go-to seafood restaurant in Mui Wo.

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Wellness

‘I shifted my mindset’: Hong Kong vegan chefs, entrepreneur after pandemic

Hong Kong chefs Tina Barrat and Peggy Chan, and entrepreneur David Yeung are at the forefront of the city’s plant-based food scene. They talk about surviving the past few difficult years and their plans for the future.

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Filipino-American chefs on being nominated for Oscars of the culinary world

Traditionally underappreciated, Filipino cuisine is having a moment in the US with four chefs nominated for prestigious James Beard Awards in 2023. Two of them open up about telling their story through food.

Chef Aaron Verzosa, who is nominated for a 2023 James Beard Award, poses for a portrait at his Filipino American restaurant Archipelago in Seattle. Photo: AP
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Opinion | US TikTok users’ attack on British-Chinese takeaway food insults immigrants

US TikTok users’ comments on viral videos of British-Chinese food have struck a nerve with ‘takeaway kids’ like me and are an insult to the immigrants who birthed this cuisine to suit UK palates.

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The story of India’s iconic Chinese-inspired chicken Manchurian dish

Chicken Manchurian was created in the 1970s in Mumbai, by chef Nelson Wang, and today is the most popular ‘Chinese’ dish in India, found on every Indian Chinese restaurant menu.

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‘Tofu king’: Hong Kong vegan’s pioneering Asian restaurant in Australia

Colin Fung’s Green Gourmet restaurant in Sydney has been serving vegan Asian food for 25 years, giving Asians in Australia – especially Hongkongers – a plant-based taste of home.

Colin Fung, founder of the vegan Asian restaurant Green Gourmet, in Sydney, Australia, with his sister Gloria Ryan at the restaurant. Photo: Green Gourmet
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Sushi, Filipino, fancy ramen: new Hong Kong restaurants to try in March 2023

22 of the best new restaurants to try in Hong Kong in March 2023, from sushi restaurants to places serving fancy Vietnamese pho, Filipino cuisine and American diner-style chicken and waffles.

Marinated mackerel sushi at Gonpachi. From sushi places to a Filipino restaurant and a comfort food diner serving chicken and waffles, there are more than 20 new restaurants to try in Hong Kong this March. Photo: Gonpachi
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Anthony Bourdain called Filipino food the next best thing. Hong Kong agrees

Hong Kong, with its big Filipino population, has lacked high-profile Filipino restaurants, but that is changing. Meet the young chefs and entrepreneurs redefining the cuisine for Hong Kong diners’ palates.

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Last of his era: Hong Kong migrant who’s the soul of London’s Chinatown

A pillar of London’s Chinatown, Hong Kong-born restaurateur Lee Shun-bun, 71, represents what the area stands for, says fellow Chinese restaurant owner Andrew Wong, of A. Wong.

My Take

My Take | Tell-all conference by tycoon one for the ages let alone new year

Disclosures by Joseph Lau of loves, hates and pet peeves of his life are funnier than most comedies and more salacious than worst tabloids.

Tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung holds a press conference to clarify his relationship with Yvonne Lui Lai-kwan at Windsor House. Photo: Jelly Tse
India

Indian cuisine’s world No 5 ranking leaves a bad taste in Indians’ mouths

Many in India find it unpalatable that their country’s cuisine is sandwiched between Mexican and Japanese in a rundown of the world’s best foods. ‘Racism’ cry others.

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One self-professed “diehard” chicken fan said the rankings lost all credibility for him when he found out that India’s butter chicken had placed 53rd out of 100 traditional dishes. Photo: Getty Images
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Explainer | What Chinese solar calendar teaches us about eating well in autumn

Chinese tradition dictates that we should eat according to the solar calendar that divides the year into 24 two-week periods for optimal health. During late August’s ‘limit of heat’ that means seafood.

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Plot twist for Indian crime film as Japanese MSG maker files lawsuit

Ajinomoto Co Inc says the film used its name without permission and that filmmaker Mathiraj Iyamperumal made ‘false and defaming statements’ regarding its food enhancer.

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