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Asian Cuisine

Asian Cuisine
The latest news, analysis and opinion on Asian Cuisine. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. Here’s how Hong Kong’s fine dining is improving its green policies: from Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental and Michelin-starred Mono to Vicky Lau’s Mora, Roganic and the Marriott group. Photo: Ting Lung Heen

How Hong Kong’s fine dining scene is getting greener – at last

The staff of Socio at the the 100 Top Tables Tables 2025 Unveiling Ceremony and Awards. Photo: Jordan Chan

Celebrating 100 Top Tables’ top restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau

Bar Leone co-founder Lorenzo Antinori. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

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Steamed donghai pomfret with chicken fat and hua diao rice wine served at Wild Yeast. Photo: Penn Wang
Food and Drinks

Inside Wild Yeast’s reinvention of Taizhou cuisine

When we hear ‘regional cuisine’ we think ‘authenticity’ – but tradition is only a starting point for Lin Zihan of Hangzhou’s Wild Yeast.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: HK’s underground ballroom scene and Chinese fine dining

Food and Drinks

Shanghainese classics, Cantonese chef – just don’t call it fusion

Food and Drinks

Bistro Jean-Pierre brings taste of Paris to Hong Kong, plus more new openings

Pumpkin gnocchi at Primo Posto Ristoro, Parisian bistro classics at Jean-Pierre, curry noodles at Mama Tiger – and a new Jollibee.

Jean-Pierre revives Parisian bistros of yore. Photo: Jean-Pierre
Asia travel

Why Shunde in southern China is heaven for Cantonese food lovers

A Unesco-designated City of Gastronomy, Shunde is hailed by many as the birthplace of Cantonese cuisine and offers a lot more besides.

Food and Drinks

7 Hong Kong restaurants to celebrate Mother’s Day 2025

From a boozy brunch at Whisk and Asian delights at Café 103, to Portuguese flavours at Flint and Cantonese classics at Yat Tung Heen, here’s how to celebrate mum in Hong Kong this year.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 9-12

From a pinwheel of Italian appetisers to dim sum on a harbour cruise, make the most of Mother’s Day weekend.

Vista’s Pinwheel Weekend Lunch is available this Mother’s Day weekend. Photo: Vista
Food and Drinks

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong (and Macau), May 4-10

Savour Wagyu beef at Yakiniku Sho, cocktails at Paragon listening bar, Asian cuisine at Wynn Palace and Japanese bento sets at Buff.

Icons and Influencers

Designer Peter Som turns from fashion to cooking with new book Family Style

The New York designer was inspired by his Chinese grandma’s notebook of recipes; his cookbook presents dishes marrying big flavours with a pinch of fashion flair, delivered with his trademark humour.

Food and Drinks

On the Menu | How perilla seed oil, ‘Korea’s olive oil’, could become a global trend

Perilla oil, made from the seeds of the perilla or shiso plant, is a must-have in your pantry. Try it in noodles or over vanilla ice cream.

Perilla oil is made from cold-pressed perilla seeds. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

Recap | Unveiling the best of Cantonese cuisine

Explore the global influence of Cantonese cooking, from the kung fu secrets of wok hei to Michelin-starred fine dining around the world, to the worldwide embracing of XO sauce and shrimp paste.

Cooks working in a dai pai dong in Hong Kong. From such street food stalls to fine-dining Cantonese restaurants, customers savour the effect of wok hei, the “breath of the wok”, in their food. Photo: Llewellyn Cheung
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 1-4

This weekend has it all: the art of Portuguese dining, a journey through Cantonese cuisine, Italian romance and weekend brunch bliss.

Food and Drinks

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, April 27 to May 3

Take in some yakitori at Maison Tori in Central, satisfy your sweet tooth at Poppins in Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza, and indulge in a California smoothie from Jamba in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Food and Drinks

Michelin chefs in Europe are embracing China’s culinary repertoire

Japan has long been a major source of culinary inspiration in the West, but the gaze is shifting to other Asian cuisines.

A flattened chicken head at Alchemist, in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed to be held by the beak and eaten in its entirety. Photo: courtesy Alchemist
Food and Drinks

Meet the world’s first Michelin-starred woman sushi chef

Chizuko Kimura picked up the reins of her husband’s Paris restaurant Sushi Shunei following his death from cancer and regained his Michelin star.

Chizuko Kimura, the first female sushi chef in the world to be awarded a Michelin star, pictured at her restaurant Sushi Shunei in Paris earlier this month. Photo: AFP
Trending in China

Posh China restaurant offers ‘authentic’ US$540 meals with elephant dung desserts

Founders spent 7 years studying rainforests of Yunnan province in southwestern China before introducing concept.

Asia travel

China’s salt capital was built on the white gold, as was its cuisine

The spiciest city in spicy Sichuan, Zigong was once home to an empire of salt and has a history of high- and low-end cuisine, starting with ‘Toilet Rabbit’.

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Food and Drinks

The XO factor: international appeal of a famed Cantonese sauce

Hong Kong’s beloved signature sauce is glazing the menus at Michelin-starred Western restaurants around the world.

From left, dried shrimp, Jinhua ham (Chinese dried ham) and dried scallop, served with XO sauce on top. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for April 4-6

March madness is finally over! Celebrate cheese, sustainability and seasonality with our first April weekend dining guide.

Food and Drinks

How to make TikTok sensation Lao street food naem khao

Naem khao is a popular dish in Laos, made from deep-fried rice balls that are broken up, baked and served with peanuts and dressing.

Food and Drinks

6 top Korean chefs’ favourite comfort foods and where to eat them in Seoul

From noodle soups to spicy seafood hotpots, Korean chefs of Michelin-starred restaurants share their comfort food picks.

Haemultang, a spicy seafood hotpot, is a favourite comfort food of Korean chef Sun Kim, of Michelin-starred Meta in Singapore. Photo: Sun Kim
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 28-30

Grab the best of BaseHall on the go, take the last opportunity to try Ming Court’s four-hands dinner, and enjoy a leisurely Sunday at Omaroo Grill.

Omaroo’s rooftop bar in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, March 23-29

From a home-grown boba brand’s new Kennedy Town outpost to hearty sandwiches at LMO Freshly Baked, here’s this week’s hottest spots.

South Korea

From soju to noodles, South Korean food brands are targeted by copycats

If counterfeit products are left unchecked, South Korean food companies could suffer damage to their reputation, analysts say.

Food and Drinks

Cantonese meets Catalan: Spanish cuisine in Hong Kong

To the untrained eye, Cantonese and Catalan cuisines might seem a world apart, but with their focus on the freshest ingredients cooked simply and for sharing, they are more alike than they are unalike.

A cured sardine dish from La Rambla. Photo: La Rambla
Food and Drinks

Foodie K-pop stars spill the beans on favourite Seoul places to eat

Doyoung of NCT loves a street vendor’s spicy rice cakes, Itzy’s Yuna and Chaeryeong like Mexican and G-Dragon goes for Korean beef tartare.

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Members of K-pop girl group Itzy Chaeryeong (right) and Yuna bite into their favourite tacos in one of the episodes of their YouTube show 2SDAY. Photo: Itzy/YouTube
Food and Drinks

Profile | Chinese-Canadian chef impresses Dubai with ‘third culture’, ‘borderless’ cooking

At Jun’s in Dubai, Kelvin Cheung’s ‘borderless’ cooking draws on influences from the Philippines to India for ‘completely original’ dishes.

Food and Drinks

Profile | Chinese food? Hong Kong-born chef Tony Mok is redefining it

After working at lauded Michelin-star Hong Kong restaurants including Amber and Mono, young chef is finding his own voice.

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