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Gavin Yeung

Don’t miss
Maggie Choo’s

This upscale Central bar is rolling out a fresh cabaret show celebrating multifaceted female identity, with a new international ensemble skilled in acrobatics, jazz and ballet routines themed around “What Maggie Wants”. Expect hi-tech aerial displays, tap numbers and Asian-inspired acts, all set to in-house DJ sets. The updated experience includes interactive audience elements and a new menu of show-inspired cocktails.
G/F, Chinachem Hollywood Centre, 1-13 Hollywood Road, Central
Hear this
Freespace Jazz Fest

West Kowloon’s largest outdoor jazz festival returns from November 6 to 9 for its seventh edition, featuring four days of jazz as well as pop and experimental sounds from more than 180 international and local artists. Highlights include a dual piano concert by Ted Lo and Joyce Cheung, and the festival debuts of Ian Chan from Mirror, and Marf and Winka from Hong Kong girl band Collar. British pianist Joe Webb will also make his first appearance. Expect free indoor and outdoor performances alongside a global food and drinks market.
For details, visit westk.hk
Drink this
Terrible Baby

To celebrate its new live music series every Thursday from 8pm, Eaton HK’s venerable cocktail hotspot, Terrible Baby, has debuted a drinks list inspired by the golden eras of music. Some of the singsong sips include Raspberry Fields Forever, a berry-heavy tequila and shochu cocktail inspired by The Beatles, and How High the Moonshine, a jazz-inspired blend of apple pie moonshine and amari.
4/F, Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan
Eat this
Carna

Celebrity butcher Dario Cecchini’s steakhouse at Mondrian Hong Kong is celebrating Pardoo beef from Pilbara, in Western Australia, as part of its Butcher’s Secret Cuts series. The menu highlights the tri-tip, a robust, flavourful cut from the bottom sirloin, grilled over charcoal and served with baked eggplant, smoked eggplant purée, carrot purée and fried garlic. Limited to 10 portions per night, on November 2, 6 and 9.
39/F, Mondrian Hong Kong, 8A Hart Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui


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Your Perfect Week

Central bar Maggie Choo’s is bringing a fresh cabaret experience to Hong Kong. Photo: courtesy Maggie Choo’s

Maggie Choo’s new show evokes the glamour of old-world cabaret. Photo: courtesy Maggie Choo’s

The Freespace Jazz Fest at West Kowloon last year. Photo: courtesy Freespace Jazz Fest

Music-inspired cocktails at live music venue Terrible Baby in Hong Kong’s Jordan. Photo: courtesy Terrible Baby

Carna’s menu highlights include the tri-tip, a flavourful cut from the bottom sirloin. Photo: courtesy Carna

Patek Philippe, Cartier, F.P. Journe: why these collectors can’t stop buying

Kai Huang’s collection includes a Cartier Cloche (left) and Cartier Ceinture (right). Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Mervin Ling, watch collector and founder of the F.P. Journe Collectors’ Club in Carlyle & Co. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Mervin Ling acquired his Cartier Baignoire Allongée via auction earlier this year. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Mervin Ling holds his F.P. Journe Chronomètre Bleu, the most prized watch in his collection. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

 Felicity Ng in Carlyle & Co. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Timepieces from Felicity Ng’s collection include (from left): the Patek Philippe Calatrava; Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Art Deco; Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch “Tintin”; and Cartier Tank Louis Cartier in platinum with grey sunray dial. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Felicity Ng holds the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Art Deco from her collection. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Felicity Ng’s Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch “Tintin”. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Kai Huang in Carlyle & Co. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Kai Huang’s collection includes a Cartier Cloche (centre) and Cartier Ceintures (left and right). Photo: Jocelyn Tam

A Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust from Kai Huang’s collection. Photo: courtesy Kai Huang

From journalist to art investor: how Kitty Go built her second act in Hong Kong

Art collector Kitty Go in her home office in Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels. Photo: Eugene Chan

Kitty Go and her dog in her  Mid-Levels home in Hong Kong. Photo: Eugene Chan

When Chic Hits The Fan, written by Kitty Go, was controversial when it was released in the Philippines. Photo: courtesy Kitty Go

Kitty Go covering the Hong Kong Handover in 1997. Photo: courtesy Kitty Go

Kitty Go (left) with Salvadorian artist Jose Campos and art dealer Hettie Reatchlous of Art Untamed, in London in 2024. Photo: courtesy Kitty Go

Kitty Go when she was a university student in Manila. Photo: courtesy Kitty Go

Kitty Go with Cambodian Siden Kong, a resident artist at Go’s United Yoga Asia art gallery in Phnom Penh. Photo: courtesy Kitty Go

How did Jarvis Cocker’s trip to a Hong Kong record shop boost a vinyl revival?

Rob Deal (far right), owner of the Wake Concept Listening Room in Hong Kong, with Wake Concept’s Anson Ma (far left), Brian Lee (bottom left), Alex Fung (centre) and Lawrence Chiu. Photo:  Jocelyn Tam

The Listening Room in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, has 10 listening stations. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

The “DJ Heaven” room, where DJs listen to records to shape their sets for the weekend. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

A turntable at The Listening Room. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

The Listening Room has hundreds of records. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

The Listening Room’s sound equipment. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Ani Phoebe Hao, DJ and music producer, at Bad Times Records. Photo: Sun Yeung

Ani Phoebe Hao on the decks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: courtesy Ani Phoebe

Hood Lam Wai-ho poses for a portrait inside his tiny warehouse in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Photo: Eugene Chan

Blair Reeve with some of his meticulously presented home library of 5,500 records. Photo: courtesy Blair Reeve

Spike Cazcarro with a Quiet Riot record, one of his 20,000-strong collection. Photo: courtesy Spike Cazcarro

Volcanic views and forgotten graves in Indonesia’s Banda Islands

Gunung Api, seen from the Pohon Sejuta Umat viewpoint in Lonthoir, on Banda Besar. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

A woman lays out fish to dry in Banda Neira’s market. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

Approaching the Banda Islands aboard the Pelni ship KM Pangrango, sailing from Ambon. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

The once highly prized nutmeg on sale at Banda Neira’s market. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

Lukman Ang in front of the Silk Road-inspired mural he painted in the Sun Thien Kong Temple in Banda Neira. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

A grave in Banda Neira’s Chinese cemetery. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

The shuttered Sun Thien Kong Temple. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

Writer Marco Ferrarese studies Lukman’s mural depicting the role of the Banda Islands in the Silk Road networks. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

Istana Mini, the mansion of colonial governor Jan Pieterszoon Coen, with one of the Chinese lions stolen from the Sun Tien Kong Temple. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

Banda Neira, seen from the top of Gunung Api. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

Public transport between Banda Neira and Banda Api. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

Cannon on the ramparts of Fort Belgica, on Banda Neira. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng

For China’s youth, traditional Chinese medicine is cool again

A pharmacist teaches students to recognise traditional Chinese medicine ingredients in Qingzhou, Shandong. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

A 99-year-old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) teaches students in September 2019 in Nantong, Jiangsu. Photo: Getty Images

A visitor experiences a TCM treatment during the 6th China (Gansu) TCM Industry Expo in Dingxi City, in northwest China’s Gansu province, earlier this month. Photo: Xinhua 

Two students practice tai chi at the Chenjiagou Taiji School in central China’s Henan province. Photo: Xinhua

Foreign trainees attend an acupuncture training in Sanya, in south China’s Hainan province. Photo: Xinhua

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Enjoy cabaret at Maggie Choo’s, revel in a festival of jazz in West Kowloon or tuck into some prime beef at Carna


Enjoy cabaret at Maggie Choo’s, revel in a festival of jazz in West Kowloon or tuck into some prime beef at Carna.
