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Yeung Sau-lun is the founder of The Polska Traveller, an independent jewellery maker in Hong Kong that transforms flowers, found objects and memories into timeless wearable art. Photo: Dickson Lee

Fashion & Beauty

This Hong Kong jewellery maker transforms memories into wearable art

The Polska Traveller founder Yeung Sau-lun talks about turning cherished items and culturally valuable objects into unique jewellery pieces.

Want to learn Cantonese? These influencers are sparking a Canto revival

These 7 lesser-known Korean snacks are trending among visitors

K-drama

The Affair Was Just the Beginning: Kim Hye-soo in riveting black comedy K-drama

This colourful tale of marital infidelity and unintended criminality sees Kim Hye-soo in superb form as a social media influencer.

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Kim Hye-soo (left) as social media influencer Park Kyung-hee in a still from The Affair Was Just the Beginning, a Korean drama now streaming on Viu.
Kim Hye-soo (left) as social media influencer Park Kyung-hee in a still from The Affair Was Just the Beginning, a Korean drama now streaming on Viu.

Arts

What not to miss at the 2027 Hong Kong Arts Festival

The 55th Hong Kong Arts Festival mixes the familiar and the eclectic, with a virtual Yuja Wang and Shakespeare renditions among highlights.

Entertainment

How Curry and Pepper showed Stephen Chow’s comedy genius before superstardom hit

The 1990 buddy cop film was released less than three months before All for the Winner turned Stephen Chow into a superstar in Hong Kong.

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Chinese culture

The Chinese sex worker who built an empire in America’s Old West

Ah Toy rose from new immigrant to madam running a chain of successful brothels, fighting racism, sexism and the authorities on the way.

Olivia Cheng (right) plays pioneering Chinese madam Ah Toy in the US martial arts crime drama series Warrior. Ah Toy was the first recorded Chinese sex worker in San Francisco, who went on to own a chain of successful brothels. Photo: HBO Max
Olivia Cheng (right) plays pioneering Chinese madam Ah Toy in the US martial arts crime drama series Warrior. Ah Toy was the first recorded Chinese sex worker in San Francisco, who went on to own a chain of successful brothels. Photo: HBO Max

Food & Drink

Why are drinkers suddenly going crazy for a 300-year-old spirit in Paris?

Chartreuse, an ancient French herbal liqueur made by monks using 130 herbs and aromatics, has become one of Paris’ most fashionable spirits.

K-drama

My Bias, My Boss: Kim Hye-jun leads cookie-cutter workplace romcom K-drama

Kim Hye-jun stars as a K-pop fanatic who takes a job at a fashion company owned by one of her idols in this formulaic romcom.

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Arts

Hong Kong’s dining battle; TV host’s insomnia struggle: 7 Lifestyle highlights

From Singapore’s dragon dance to French cultural influence in Hong Kong, here are seven stories from SCMP’s recent reporting.

The Red Cuisine owner Joyce Yuen serves dishes at her restaurant in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Many restaurants in the city are struggling with falling customer numbers as more locals head to Shenzhen for cheaper meals. Photo: May Tse

Lifestyle

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, August 7-9

Enjoy a floating gong bath, teach your kids about upcycling, learn to write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphics and more this weekend.

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Malbert Lee will hold a sound healing experience at Tune In Wellness in Wan Chai this Saturday. Photo: Instagram/Tune In Wellness
Malbert Lee will hold a sound healing experience at Tune In Wellness in Wan Chai this Saturday. Photo: Instagram/Tune In Wellness

Homes

In this quiet family holiday home in Tokyo, Japanese tradition meets modernity

Hong Kong’s Jason Caroline Design reimagines a property investor’s pad around ‘ma’, the art of the pause, rendered in tatami and timber.

Entertainment

Rolling in the aisles: Jenny Yang tours US grocery stores with comedy show

The ‘Good Egg Immigrant Grocery Store Stand-up Comedy Tour’ is Yang’s way of giving back to beleaguered immigrant communities in the US.

K-movies

Review | Number One: Parasite stars reunite for food-themed family drama

Choi Woo-sik and Jang Hye-jin star as a pampered son and his doting mother who always cooks for him until tragedy strikes their family.

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Jang Hye-jin (left) and Choi Woo-sik in a still from Number One.

Food & Drink

Where is this Italy-trained chef’s favourite Italian restaurant in Hong Kong?

Coffeelin’s Johana Pulat reveals her favourite restaurants for Italian, Hong Kong street food, shaved ice, Korean barbecue and more.

Johana Pulat is the executive chef of Milanese-style cafe chain Coffeelin in Hong Kong. Photo: courtesy of Johana Pulat
Johana Pulat is the executive chef of Milanese-style cafe chain Coffeelin in Hong Kong. Photo: courtesy of Johana Pulat

Health & Wellness

Their rock ‘n’ roll life led to anxiety, depression. How they beat the ‘devil’

Celebrity couple Candy Lo and Sammy So talk about hitting rock bottom, taking up running, and how they now do marathons across the globe.

Food & Drink

Are Hong Kong’s restaurants fighting a losing battle against Shenzhen?

Three restaurateurs discuss the challenges of staying afloat in Hong Kong as more locals cross the border into Shenzhen for cheaper food.

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Chinese culture

The Shenzhen Natural History Museum is now open. What’s to see there?

The US$517 million museum that opened on July 28 is a ‘living educational landscape’ covering space, dinosaurs, evolution and much more.

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Fossils of a Mammuthus primigenius is displayed at the Evolution Hall of Shenzhen Natural History Museum. 25JUL26 SCMP / Elson Li
Fossils of a Mammuthus primigenius is displayed at the Evolution Hall of Shenzhen Natural History Museum. 25JUL26 SCMP / Elson Li

Health & Wellness

The key to better brain health and ‘super-ageing’ could lie in your bones

Our bones produce a hormone called osteocalcin, activated by exercise, that crosses into the brain to fight memory loss and anxiety.

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Food & Drink

Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026: Hope & Sesame in China’s Guangzhou takes top spot

The victory marks the first time a mainland Chinese bar has placed at No 1, ending the two-year reign of Hong Kong’s Bar Leone.

Entertainment

Review | Spider-Man: Brand New Day – Tom Holland returns in mature Marvel triumph

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man fights both supervillains and his own superpowers in this exciting new outing co-starring Zendaya and Sadie Sink.

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Tom Holland as Spider-man in a still from Spider-Man: Brand New Day (category IIA), directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Zendaya and Sadie Sink co-star.
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Morning mist hangs over the tea plantation at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, in the New Territories. Photo: Alexander Mak

Hong Kong’s 1,000-year-old tea heritage is being rediscovered and rehabilitated

Discover Hong Kong’s hidden tea legacy, predating British influence, as a band of young local growers races to safeguard ancient cultivation and traditions.

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The stuffed crab shell at Seventh Son is dipped in egg and breadcrumbs twice before being fried. Photo: Alexander Mak

Masters of Hong Kong’s ‘kung fu’ cuisine on the struggle to save Cantonese classics

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Stephen Yan with fans in Toronto in 2024. Photo: courtesy Retrokid

Wok with Yan’s return: Hong Kong-Canadian TV chef Stephen Yan reunites with fans decades after disappearing

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“Longgang’s Weird Building”, a fortress-like structure located in Longgang, Shenzhen, China. Photo: Alexander Mak

One man’s fortress: an eccentric’s labour of love in Longgang

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Hong Kong actors (from left) Karan Cholia, Inderjeet Singh and Bipin Karma at Statue Square, Central. Photo: Alexander Mak

Hong Kong’s film scene: 3 South Asian actors rewrite the script

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Engineers at the Kamoa-Kakula copper mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Liu Heung-shing

The human faces of China’s belt and road strategy, through Liu Heung-shing’s lens

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