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What to do in Hong Kong

What to do in Hong Kong
Your ultimate guide to what’s on in Hong Kong, including insider tips, weekend round-ups, curated guides, plus unique happenings across the city.
Personal trainer Aileen Wong invites dog lovers to join in a Saturday morning dog walk/run/jog. Photo: Aileen Wong
Pets in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend April 25-27

A Japanese ice-cream parlour’s pop-up, a chance to invest in artistic mini pouches and an opportunity to sample Hong Kong heavy metal await.

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Food and Drinks

Where a wine expert from France eats French food in Hong Kong

Food and Drinks

French bistro classics star at new Hong Kong restaurant Jean-Pierre

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 24-26

Go low-ABV at Mostly Harmless, sip craft beer at Flower Years’ 7th anniversary party, and enjoy drinks by Jakarta’s Carrots at The Opposites.

Ezra Star has taken a non-alcoholic approach to Mostly Harmless for the time being. Photo: Mostly Harmless/ The Foundry Asia
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Montages of a Modern Motherhood: Hedwig Tam shines in bleak drama

Hong Kong writer-director Oliver Chan, a mother herself, paints a grim picture of maternity in a patriarchal Chinese society.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for April 25-27

Indulge in a seven-course fine-dining experience, cool down with a world-famous smoothie, and relax with some beachside dining on Lamma Island this weekend.

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American cinema

Review | The Accountant 2: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal back for illogical sequel

Ben Affleck returns as a mob-trained, autistic accountant in this convoluted sequel that, despite some good action, is disappointingly thin.

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Jon Bernthal (left) as Brax and Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff in a still from The Accountant 2 (category IIB), directed by Gavin O’Connor. Cynthia Addai-Robinson co-stars. Photo: Warrick Page/Prime
Art Basel

Transforming Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour into a floating art gallery

The city’s premier art space draws millions with its large-scale installations by artists like Kaws in a space bigger than the M+ museum.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Hedwig and the Angry Inch rock musical coming to Hong Kong in Cantonese

The musical, which follows scarred genderqueer singer Hedwig on tour, has dropped the original glam rock and will be in Cantonese.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

How Hong Kong debut of Aaron Zigman’s Émigré completes an emotional journey

This version of the musical, a love story between a Jewish refugee and a Chinese woman in Shanghai, has a different ending, composer says.

Aaron Zigman has written the music for more than 60 Hollywood films. His musical drama Émigré, about Jewish refugees in Shanghai in the late 1930s, will make its Hong Kong debut on April 26 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Photo: Dario Acosta
Meditation and how to find balance

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, April 18-20

From a fun toy festival and thrilling circus escapade to a yoga session with your dog, there is plenty to look forward to this long weekend.

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Yogis are free to bring their canine friends along to Papillon Yoga Studio on Sunday afternoons for an hour-long dog yoga session. Photo: Instagram/papillon_yogastudiohk
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Smashing Frank: Hedwig Tam robs the rich and powerful in slick drama

Director Trevor Choi tries to explore Hong Kong’s generational and class divide with a film that sees the poor and young steal from the rich.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Once Upon a Lie: Irene Wan chases much younger man in unconvincing romance

Irene Wan plays a lovesick divorcee catfishing a much younger man, played by Bruce Hung, in a superficial film that lacks any chemistry.

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Food and Drinks

‘Phenomenal’ vegetarian food, ‘fantastic’ Peking duck in Hong Kong

Silver Spoon Restaurants’ Harshil Bhasin reveals his favourite Japanese and Chinese vegetarian joints and others in Hong Kong.

Tiger skin green peppers with spicy dressing at Madame Fu Grand Cafe Chinois, a restaurant at Tai Kwun in Central. 31JUL18 [FEATURES FOOD] SCMP / Xiaomei Chen
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong food guide for Easter weekend: April 18-21

Enjoy an Italian Easter celebration, embrace Hong Kong’s pistachio obsession, indulge in a classic Sunday lunch and top it all off with berry baked goods.

Driscoll’s x Elephant Grounds spring menu in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Art Basel

3 emerging Hong Kong-based artists to watch in 2025

Andy Li San-kit, Yvonne Feng and Ye Hui are 3 Hong Kong-based creatives subverting the role of the artist.

Art

Line between art and crafts is blurred in new Hong Kong exhibition

At the Centre for Heritage Arts and Textile, works by artists and craftspeople from around Asia break boundaries between art and folk crafts.

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Food and Drinks

They changed the Hong Kong food scene. Can Yardbird’s founders do it again?

Ahead of their first restaurant opening in 12 years, owners Lindsay Jang and Matt Abergel talk restaurant design, team dynamics and the evolution of their vision.

Matt Abergel and Lindsay Jang at Always Joy, their latest restaurant venture in Sheung Wan. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Art

He was once Hong Kong’s most prominent contemporary artist. Now he’s back

One of the most talked-about openings during Art Basel week, Tsang Kin-wah’s exhibition at Galerie du Monde is a memorable return.

Pets

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, April 11-13

Quaff some Pharrell Williams champagne, learn how to care better for your dog, revisit an iconic Hong Kong movie and more this weekend.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

What’s ‘extended’ in new In the Mood for Love 4K special cinema edition?

Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 masterpiece returns to Hong Kong cinemas this week for the film’s 25th anniversary with nine minutes of new footage.

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Maggie Cheung in a still from In the Mood for Love 25th Anniversary Special Edition. Presented in a brand new 4K restoration, this extended edition of the 2000 masterpiece boasts nine minutes of never-before-seen footage.
Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Earl Grey Caviar Martini at Quinary

The multisensory cocktail, created almost 13 years ago, revolutionised Hong Kong’s bar scene with its unique blend of flavours and visual appeal.

The Earl Grey Caviar Martini is one of Quinary’s bestsellers for a reason. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Discover chef Sandy Keung’s unconventional approach to cuisine

Hong Kong financier-turned-chef behind Table, which has just relocated, on why she can’t and won’t leave the restaurant business.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 10-12

It’s guest shifts galore as The St. Regis Bar Hong Kong welcomes mixologists from sister properties, Quinary brings Prohibition-style drinks from Soko, and Bar Leone welcomes Toronto’s Bar Pompette.

American cinema

Review | Drop: date night dilemma in Happy Death Day director’s new thriller

The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy plays a widow on a first date who faces a terrifying quandary in Christopher Landon’s implausible film.

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Meghann Fahy as Violet in a still from Drop. Photo: Universal Pictures
Food and Drinks

Where a coffee lover in Hong Kong eats seafood and drinks cocktails

Savoury cocktails, fish congee, late-night dim sum – Sophie Chan shares her favourite places in Hong Kong. Plus a fish bar in Copenhagen.

Threadfin, pea purée, légumes du printemps at Jean May Photo: Instagram/ jeanmayhk
Food and Drinks

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, April 6-12

Premium shabu-shabu, Spanish bites, Franco-Japanese cheese omakase … and you can work it all off with sessions at a new gym in Central.

American cinema

Review | The Amateur: Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne in muddled revenge thriller

This story of a CIA analyst looking for vengeance has all the elements necessary for success, but somehow fails to pull them together.

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