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Gavin Yeung

Try this
The Big Bread Social

Sourdough fiends and carb lovers will want to mark this gathering of hobbyist bakers. Organised by Big Hug Studios and Obviously Studios, the event will allow home bakers to showcase their skills, as well as connect with each other for a wholesome (and wholewheat) afternoon of fun on October 19, from 12pm to 4pm, at Sleepyhead, in Wan Chai.
Sleepyhead, Shop C, 1-3 Moon Street, Wan Chai. For tickets, go to eventbrite.hk
Drink this
The Pontiac

Marking a full decade in the trenches, The Pontiac has launched its latest cocktail menu, “Talking Walls”. Each cocktail takes inspiration from the messages and graffiti etched into the walls of Central’s favourite dive bar over the past 10 years, with stand-outs such as First & Last, a tequila-based drink combining Ribena-hibiscus syrup and fenugreek tincture, and I Post My Crimes for Likes, featuring gin, rum and strawberry-oolong cordial.
13 Old Bailey Street, Central
See this
Black Box Chinese Opera Festival 2025

This annual celebration of the Chinese operatic arts returns to West Kowloon, with three award-winning Cantonese operas on the agenda: Farewell My Concubine, Wenguang Explores the Valley and The Imperial Decree, along with two classic Kunqu operas, Qingshan Embrace Me, by the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, and The Burning Painting, by the Yangju Opera Institute of Yangzhou.
Runs until October 26. For tickets and more details, go to westk.hk
Don’t miss
Eileen Chang’s The Repulse Bay

To celebrate its reopening in The Repulse Bay mall, Bookazine will host a discussion with historian Paul French and journalist Annemarie Evans on October 18 at 5pm, delving into the literary history of the storied neighbourhood before taking guests on a guided tour of the exhibition, “Eileen Chang’s The Repulse Bay: Love, Upheaval and the Beauty of Fragility”, which runs until March 1, 2026.
Shop 211, 1/F, The Repulse Bay Arcade, 109 Repulse Bay Road, Repulse Bay. Entry is free but an RSVP is required. Go to bookazine.com.hk for details


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Award-winning Cantonese opera “The Imperial Decree”. Photo: courtesy Black Box Chinese Opera Festival

The Big Bread Social is an opportunity for home bakers to showcase their skills. Photo: Shutterstock

Hong Kong bar The Pontiac’s I Post My Crimes for Likes cocktail features gin, rum and strawberry-oolong cordial. Photo: The Pontiac

The Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe performs Qingshan Embrace Me. Photo: courtesy Black Box Chinese Opera Festival

Repulse Bay Hotel in Hong Kong pictured in the 1920s. Photo: courtesy The Repulse Bay hotel

The final days of the Metropol, once Hong Kong’s busiest dim sum hall

Dim sum cart auntie Wong Yiu-fong has worked at the restaurant for more than two decades. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Server Wong Heung prepares a dim sum cart. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Chan Cheuk-yiu (centre) has worked at the Metropol for 34 years. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

The Metropol’s kitchen staff preparing dim sum last month. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Staff preparing dim sum in the kitchen. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Popular Metropol dishes including egg tarts, barbecue pork buns and deep-fried glutinous rice dumplings. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Chilled mango pudding, a classic dessert. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

 Jelly cubes for those with a sweet tooth. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Cheung fun, chicken feet and quail egg siu mai, rarely found nowadays, among the dim sum ordered by a customer. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Senior receptionist supervisor Hong Ya-ya gets ready to welcome guests. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Paper signs used for banquets and special occasion bookings. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Menu holders carry the number of each table. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

A sign at the restaurant. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

A menu in Chinese, English and Japanese made for tourists. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Teapots ready for use. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

The Metropol’s last day. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

5 Hong Kong-brand hotels taking Asian flavours to world-class kitchens abroad

Chef Masa Takayama’s signature Masa Toro Caviar. Photo: courtesy Masa New York

Chef Masa Takayama of Tobi Masa, in London’s The Chancery Rosewood. Photo: courtesy Tobi Masa London

The clock tower at The Peninsula Istanbul, overlooking Gallada’s roof terrace. Photo: courtesy Gallada

Chef Ross Shonhan of Netsu, at the Mandarin Oriental Jumeira, Dubai. Photo: courtesy Netsu

Forty-two-day applewood-smoked Peking duck at Mott 32, in the Shangri-La Toronto. Photo: courtesy Mott 32 Toronto

Chef Masaharu Morimoto of Morimoto Jakarta, at The Langham, Jakarta. Photo: courtesy Morimoto Jakarta

When Hong Kong’s Happy Valley got night racing up and running in 1973

The first night race takes place under the new floodlights at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Racecourse, in October 1973. Photo: SCMP Archives

“Senior officials of the Royal Hongkong Jockey Club are investigating the possibility of holding night race meetings at Happy Valley,” reported the South China Morning Post on March 30, 1972. Photo: SCMP Archives

The first night race at the Happy Valley Racecourse, on October 17, 1973. Photo: SCMP Archives

HKJC

Inside Tokyo’s most mysterious sake bar, Twelv – debuting in Hong Kong at Carlyle & Co

Norihiro Tacamizuma is the owner of Twelv, the mysterious Tokyo sake bar set to make its Hong Kong debut at Carlyle & Co on October 22. Photo: courtesy Twelv

Norihiro Tacamizuma on the Fuji Speedway in the foothills of Mount Fuji. Photo: courtesy Twelv

The almost monastic space of Twelv was designed by Komal Kehar and Abilio Marcelo Hagihara. Photo: courtesy Twelv

Twelv’s signature bio sparkling sake made in collaboration with Kidoizumi. Photo: courtesy Twelv

The DJ booth at Twelv. Photo: courtesy Twelv

Twelv’s signature bio sparkling sake uses in-bottle secondary fermentation. Photo: courtesy Twelv

Racing is just one of Norihiro Tacamizuma’s passions. Photo: courtesy Twelv

On the track at Fuji Speedway. Photo: courtesy Twelv

Cuban painter Alejandro Piñeiro Bello’s dreamscapes light up Hong Kong’s Pace Gallery

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello between his artworks Vientos Contrarios (2025) and Ojos de Estrella (2025), part of his “Solo Quiero Soñar (I Just Want to Dream)” exhibition at Pace Gallery in Central, Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello’s Bruma (2025), which is showing at Hong Kong’s Pace Gallery in Central. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello at Pace Gallery in Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello’s La Estrella Que Nos Guíaba Tambien Desapareció, Señora, Señora (The Star That Guided Us Also Disappeared, Lady, Lady) (2025). Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello sketches at Hong Kong’s Pace Gallery. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

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Get baking at Sleepyhead cafe, sip cocktails at The Pontiac, check out some Chinese opera or explore Repulse Bay history


Get baking at Sleepyhead cafe, sip cocktails at The Pontiac, check out some Chinese opera or explore Repulse Bay history.
