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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Bar Sepia is a new listening bar in Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 19-21

Even the most delicious meals, such as this one at La Terrace at Louise, can occasionally be marred by rude or entitled guests, Hong Kong’s F&B professionals share. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography

Word on the StrEAT: the F&B scene’s pet peeves about customers

LPM’s menu for Father’s Day. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong food guide for Father’s Day weekend, June 19-21

Legend has it that zongzi’s origins go back more than two millennia. Photo: Handout

Exploring the regional varieties of zongzi for Dragon Boat Festival

Sugar King’s Daiquiri El Cáscara is something of an ode to the origins of the Daiquiri, and of the bar itself. Photo: Handout

Drink in Focus: Daiquiri El Cáscara at Sugar King

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The BBQ table spread at Smoke & Barrel in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 26-28

An eight-hands Chinese feast at Shanghai Plus, lamb-led snacks and cocktails at Kinsman, and a new Smoke & Barrel barbecue joint in Sai Ying Pun.

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7 top Hong Kong restaurants offering fine food at bargain prices this summer

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The winding path of a chef marrying Cantonese and Jiangnan cuisines in Macau

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7 special Father’s Day 2026 lunches, dinners and more in Hong Kong

From huge steaks and chocolate cigars to the chance to win a suit worth HK$8,800 for your dad, celebrate Father’s Day in style this year.

The highlight of the Father’s Day feast at 1862 Bar de Tapas y Vino is a charcoal-grilled 1kg Tomahawk steak. The restaurant is one of seven places we recommend for Father’s Day in Hong Kong. Photo: 1862 Bar de Tapas y Vino
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Your Hong Kong food guide for Father’s Day weekend, June 19-21

Fill the upcoming long weekend with Jija’s afternoon tea, a four-hands steak dinner at Carna by Dario Cecchini, and a Father’s Day brunch at LPM.

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Unsung Eats: 5 best places to eat in Uluwatu, Bali

From wood-fired barbecue feasts to Indonesian classics like nasi goreng with a seaside view, Uluwatu’s dining scene deserves a place on your Bali itinerary.

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Chinese photographers serve a visual feast at World Food Photography Awards 2026

Hotpot feasts, communal banquets and street food scenes were the highlights from Chinese photographers during this year’s competition.

A family preparing red glutinous rice cakes for Chinese New Year in Putian, Fujian province, China. The photo was featured in the annual World Food Photography Awards. Photo: Chen Ying/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Bimi
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Prawn toast as a Scotch egg? How UK chefs are reinventing a Cantonese classic

A beloved Chinese restaurant dish across Britain, Cantonese prawn toast is being transformed in ways that must be tasted to be believed.

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Where to go for amazing steak and seafood in Hong Kong? Food influencer reveals

Jen Balisi, founder of modern Filipino restaurant Barkada in Hong Kong, gives her top picks for steak, noodles, pasta and more in the city.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 5-7

Fill your weekend with celebratory anniversary menus at Belon and Whey, plus a citywide burger showdown from Feather & Bone.

Scallop Pie Tee & Crab Bao at Whey. Photo: Handout
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15 new Hong Kong restaurants to try in June 2026, from pizza to ramen

New openings include a Neapolitan pizzeria, a Tokyo ramen chain’s outpost, an Argentinian steakhouse and a modern Chinese dessert bar.

The mortadella and pistachio pizza at Fugazzi Pizzeria Napoletana, a new Neapolitan pizzeria in Kai Tak. Check out this and our other new Hong Kong restaurant recommendations in June 2026. Photo: Fugazzi Pizzeria Napoletana
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Where to go for ‘real’ Italian, ‘funky’ Japanese in Hong Kong? This CEO knows

Pak-man Lee of Hong Kong design shop Nuovo shares where he enjoys Japanese bites, real Italian dishes and Thai food on the beach.

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A Vietnamese-American’s quest to make the perfect Peking duck

Radiologist Hong Pham’s dedication to making roast duck has seen him start his own catering business and even cook the bird at weddings.

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Inside Shenzhen’s evolving culinary scene

Once infamous as a hub for counterfeit goods and cheap spa treatments, China’s Silicon Valley has matured into a gastronomic destination.

Shenzhen, as seen from MO Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen. Photo: Handout
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The Hong Kong chefs serving up East-West fusion food without the stigma

We meet three Hong Kong restaurant pioneers who are elevating the maligned food trend by serving French and Nordic dishes with Asian accents.

Chinese liangpi noodles done in a Nordic style at Aera, in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood. Chef Chevalier Yau’s restaurant is one of a handful in the city that are removing the stigma from fusion food, which has been dismissed by serious chefs in recent years. Photo: Instagram/aera.hk
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A food critic’s top Hong Kong restaurants for sushi, Cantonese and Chiu Chow

Entertainment journalist Eileen Cha, who grew up on Cantonese and Hunanese food, says she has a split personality palate.

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Where to eat in Singapore, from hawker centres to Michelin restaurants

With a blend of Chinese, Malay and Indian cuisines, and a huge choice of fresh produce and spices, the Lion City is a culinary dream.

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3 young chefs helping to define Shenzhen’s new fine dining wave

The city is known for cheap weekend eats, but a new contingent of young chefs is now burnishing its reputation for fine dining too.

Culinary creativity at Fumée in Shenzhen. Photo: Handout
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Japanese, Korean, Chinese: a guitarist-restaurateur’s top Hong Kong eats

Joey Pui, executive manager of Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant and guitarist for Zarahn, reveals his picks for lunch and drinks in Hong Kong.

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She swapped fish for veg in her omakase – and Vancouver ate it up

Japanese chef Akiko Gulkison is on a mission to reveal vegetables’ hidden powers at her restaurants in Vancouver, Canada.

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‘Liquid yin and yang’? How Hong Kong bartenders work with Chinese chefs

Leading mixologists from Duddell’s, Vea and Mott 32 share their tips on curating ideal flavour pairings between cocktails and courses.

In Hong Kong, Duddell’s cocktails draw inspiration from the Ba Gua and are specifically designed to pair with the restaurant’s Cantonese cuisine. Photo: Handout
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Mouthing Off | Nobody can cook seafood like the Chinese. It sounds conceited, but it’s true

After watching Rick Stein overcook a crab on his travel show, Andrew Sun argues why Chinese – specifically Cantonese – seafood is best.

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Typhoon shelter crab at Bamboo Village restaurant in Hong Kong. Overcooking seafood is common, but Chinese methods, like stir-frying and steaming, preserve delicate flavours. Photo: Kylie Knott
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Your Mother’s Day weekend food guide for May 8-10

Treat your mum to lavish feasts at Jija by Vicky Lau, JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong or Le Salon de Thé de Joël Robuchon this year.

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Spam musubi? How American flavours were absorbed and adapted in Okinawa

Okinawa’s post-war food story is a delicious blend of American ingredients given a Japanese spin – think taco rice and Spam musubi.

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Unsung Eats: 5 best places to eat and drink in Taipei

Fresh takes on Taiwan’s famed fried chicken and breakfast, to tea cocktails and artisanal coffee, here are our Taipei foodie picks.

Taipei remains a premier foodie destination, home to an evolving culinary scene that includes the likes of Chicken Bar by Weekend. Photo: @chickenbar_taipei
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13 new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in May 2026, from steak to fondue

New openings include a steakhouse with an Asian-inspired twist, a modern Indian chophouse and a creative omakase spot.

The Orient steakhouse blends premium surf-and-turf with vibrant Southeast Asian flavours. Check out this and our other new Hong Kong restaurant recommendations in May. Photo: The Orient
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Asian-American mother challenges tough Chinese traditions for new mums

Clarissa Wei’s cookbook ‘Sitting the Month’ puts a modern spin on the traditional Chinese foods typically given to post-partum mothers.

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Beyond steak: 3 Hong Kong chefs share dry-ageing tips for fish, lamb, poultry

Dry-ageing isn’t reserved for beef only – chefs from Fireside, Kyanbasu by Mt. Yotei and Tori Jukusei offer techniques for home cooks.

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