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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Some of the mahjong tiles in Conspiracy Chocolate’s special set for Lunar New Year. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Conspiracy Chocolate’s mahjong set brings good luck this Lunar New Year

Pandan Man co-founders Brian Kwan (right) and Caroline Yuen are among Hong Kong’s F&B power couples who share space at work and home. Photo: Handout

Word on the StrEAT: 6 F&B power couples on what love looks like after service

From celebrating love to leaving the past behind, Hong Kong’s bars have you covered this Valentine’s weekend. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

Grand Majestic Sichuan in Hong Kong offers 10 new dishes for your post-Chinese New Year weekend. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 20-22

Kinsman’s Neen Go-Lada, exclusive to Lunar New Year 2026. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 21-23

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Emily Yuen, chef at one-Michelin-star Chinese restaurant Yingtao in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, prepares lo mai gai - sticky rice, lap cheong and salted duck egg yolk stuffed in a deboned chicken wing. Many chefs in the US are elevating Chinese cuisine and challenging stereotypes. Photo: AP
Chinese cuisine

Chinese food, but make it fine dining? Chefs push back against stereotypes

Forget fast food in boxes: chefs at upscale restaurants in the US are elevating Chinese cuisine to fine dining status, tasting menus and all.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 20 to 22

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Dish in focus: crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock

Lunar New Year

Why do Chinese love water chestnuts? All about the lucky ‘horse’s hoof’

A humble and vastly underrated ingredient, water chestnuts are used in a popular Lunar New Year dessert and also have many health benefits.

The water chestnut, a versatile ingredient known as “horse’s hoof”, is celebrated for its crisp texture and auspicious meaning in Lunar New Year dishes. Photo: Jonathan Wong
TV shows and streaming video

On the Menu | What do an American reality TV show and Chinese aunties have in common?

A Chinese millennial woman talks fat and fortune as she contrasts the toxic culture of the early noughties with today’s body positivity.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 21-23

We’ve got you covered for drinks as we welcome the Year of the Horse, from Chinese New Year cocktails to a special night at Qura with Singapore’s Side Door.

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Thailand

At Bangkok’s Aqua Bar, White Lotus luxury meets duck-inspired cocktails

For its 20th anniversary, the Aqua Bar at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel in Bangkok has crafted cocktails that are a throwback to its past.

Dewdrop Whisper at the Aqua Bar is made of gin, elderflower liqueur and fresh lime juice. The drink is part of the new cocktail menu created to celebrate the Bangkok bar’s 20th anniversary. Photo: Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel
Indonesia

Video | TikTokkers hungry for Indonesian man’s ‘mini-food empire’

The miniature artist became a street vendor after his tiny culinary creations caught the eye of children and adults alike.

What to do in Hong Kong

Where a Hong Kong chef loves to eat dim sum, hotpot, pizza and more

Keith Yam of Tuber Umberto Bombana and Cannubi reveals his Hong Kong restaurant hotspots for Italian, Japanese, Chinese and more.

Weekend Food Guide

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 20-22

Treat yourself to a classic three-course meal at Morton’s, punchy new pasta plates at Twist, or a long Sunday brunch at Grand Majestic Sichuan.

Grand Majestic Sichuan in Hong Kong offers 10 new dishes for your post-Chinese New Year weekend. Photo: Handout
Chinese culture

8 lucky Lunar New Year foods to welcome the Year of the Horse

From dumplings shaped like gold ingots to longevity noodles, these traditional Lunar New Year dishes are eaten to invite good fortune.

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A traditional shared Lunar New Year dish, poon choi is made from layers of premium ingredients and signifies fullness and prosperity. Photo: Ser Wong Fun
Wellness

Want to beat your sugar cravings? How to cut down and even quit sugary foods

Kick-start your sugar-free journey with expert tips on managing cravings, mindful snacking and embracing healthier substitutes.

From our archives

In pictures: Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year obsession with good fortune

To celebrate the Year of the Horse, we take a look back at how Hong Kong invited good luck through traditional customs from the 1970s to the 2000s.

Wine and Spirits

This TCM bar in China makes customers drinks based on its doctor’s diagnoses

Shanghai bar Niang Qing is one of many new traditional Chinese medicine bars that offer bespoke wellness to China’s stressed-out youth.

A bartender prepares shots at Niang Qing, a “TCM bar” in Shanghai, China. Similar bars based on traditional Chinese medicine have popped up in cities across China, epitomising what the country’s stressed-out, time-poor youth refer to as “punk wellness”, or “wrecking yourself while saving yourself”. Photo: AFP
China consumption

‘Disgusting’: pre-made Lunar New Year meals lose lustre for Chinese families

Food fight between star influencer and restaurant chain becomes a hot potato at reunion dinner tables as hosts pick quality over convenience.

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The Xibei scandal sparked debate about pre-made meals with many Chinese families planning to ditch the popular option in favour of hosting home cooked reunion dinners this Lunar New Year. Photo: Shutterstock
Guangzhou

He saw Guangzhou as a challenge. Now, his restaurant has a Michelin star

Chef Louis Tam’s Chowa earned a Michelin star in Guangzhou, defying the city’s fine dining norms with his rebellious Japanese-French cuisine.

100 Top Tables

Conspiracy Chocolate’s mahjong set brings good luck this Lunar New Year

The local Hong Kong chocolatier – known for its Coa and Bakehouse collaboration bars – launches its 13 Orphans mahjong set for the Year of the Horse.

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Asian Cuisine

How do couples who work together thrive? Ask these restaurant duos

Four couples who work together in hospitality explain how they maintain thriving, loving partnerships when things get heated in the kitchen.

James Knappett and Sandia Chang of Kitchen Table met in 2005 while working together at Thomas Keller’s Per Se in New York. Photo: Marcus Cobden
100 Top Tables

Word on the StrEAT: 6 F&B power couples on what love looks like after service

Penicillin’s Agung and Laura Prabowo, Dieci’s Paolo Olivieri and Hanna Lee, and more on married life, work and everything in between.

Lunar New Year

10 great Lunar New Year food and drink gifts available in Hong Kong

From chic hampers with abalone and nuts to local gin, these gifts are great for giving – and sharing – to ring in the Year of the Horse 2026.

Hong Kong society

Share where risky oysters are from, authorities urged after food poisoning cases

Restaurants say demand has plunged amid calls for diners to avoid eating them raw as number of norovirus-related food poisoning cases rises.

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The Centre for Food Safety has warned diners to avoid eating raw oysters for the time being following the emergence of two new clusters of norovirus-related food poisoning. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong diners bid farewell to 80-year-old Honolulu Coffee Shop in Wan Chai

Dozens pack cha chaan teng known for its egg tarts and milk tea ahead of March 1 closure.

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Honolulu Coffee Shop in Wan Chai. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Susan Jung's recipes

How to use rosemary, and 3 recipes that make the most of its flavour

Rosemary is often used with olive oil and garlic in Mediterranean cuisines. It is easy to store and the herb can be used fresh or dried.

Chinese culture

The origins of Hong Kong-style borscht, and where to find the real thing

Borscht found in Hong Kong is quite different from its Eastern European ancestors. A new restaurant has an authentic take on the dish.

Luxury yachts

Review | What it’s like to stay on The Ritz-Carlton’s Luminara superyacht

From Aman to Four Seasons, hotel groups are taking on the high seas with luxury cruises – here’s what it’s like on Ritz-Carlton’s Luminara.

A pool overlooking the sea on the Ritz-Carlton Luminara yacht. Photo: Handout
100 Top Tables

Drink in Focus: Off Wave at Dead Poets

The shochu-based cocktail, part of the bar’s Liquid Gallery menu, is inspired by Hokusai’s art and blends Japanese flavours.

Off Wave, from Dead Poets’ latest menu Liquid Gallery, is inspired by a Hokusai print. Photo: Handout
Chinese culture

Where to go for the most luxurious Lunar New Year menus in Hong Kong

Ring in the Year of the Fire Horse in style at these top Chinese restaurants, where festive menus feature premium takes on auspicious dishes.

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Valentine's Day

Mouthing Off | The least romantic thing to do on Valentine’s Day? Go to a restaurant

Cramped tables, no privacy, overpriced set menus – why not just stay at home and cook, or share takeaway comfort food snuggled on the sofa?

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