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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Enjoy a classic Christmas turkey at Regent Hong Kong this festive season. Photo: Handout

Where to enjoy Christmas dinner in Hong Kong this festive season

Arm Coffee in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, serves a delicious brunch. Photo: Handout

Seaside and sunshine: Sai Kung offers fertile grounds for independent cafes

Zoku’s sukiyaki cheese fondue in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 12-14

Bancha & Chestnut Alexander, at Hong Kong’s Madara cocktail bar. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Drink in Focus: Bancha & Chestnut Alexander at Madara

Raiza Carrera (centre) takes over Dead Poets in Hong Kong as part of their second birthday celebrations. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 12-14

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A dish of Italian spaghetti alla carbonara. Unesco added the rituals surrounding Italian food preparation and consumption to its list of the world’s intangible cultural heritage. Photo: AFP
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Unesco adds Italian cuisine and its rituals to world cultural heritage list

Italy’s culinary traditions have been recognised by the United Nations’ cultural agency as part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage.

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Dish in Focus: Flower crab dan dan noodles at Path

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Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s F&B gurus on the highs and lows of 2025

Chinese cuisine

‘Hong Kong taught me balance’: Hutong chef on Sichuan spice and new menu

Sichuanese chef Ren Dingxu of Hutong Dubai talks about exploring spice in his new menu available in Hong Kong and his aim to ‘evoke emotion’.

Ren Dingxu is the head chef at Hutong Dubai. The Chengdu-raised chef’s culinary journey has taken him from Singapore to the Middle East, but he maintains that Hong Kong has had the biggest impact on his culinary style. Photo: Hutong
Clockenflap Music Festival

On the Menu | Local heroes TamJai and Chicken Egg Boy the stars of Clockenflap’s food stalls

Including budget-friendly soup noodle specialists TamJai in the food line-up in particular was a brilliant move by Clockenflap organisers.

Chinese culture

How Boston Chinatown overcame constant threats to win its place in history

New England’s last surviving Chinatown, Boston Chinatown has long suffered hostile urban renewal but now its community is stronger than ever.

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Accidents and personal safety

Suckling pig blamed for leaving 31 ill after Hong Kong wedding banquet

Twenty male and 11 female guests developed abdominal pain and diarrhoea after attending Chinese wedding banquet at hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.

The Chinese wedding banquet was held at the upscale New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel. File photo: Shutterstock
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 12-14

Sample champagne and caviar at New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel, celebrate Dead Poets’ second birthday, and drink wild sour craft beer at Blue Supreme.

What to do in Hong Kong

Dim sum, pig’s tripe, Ningbo cuisine: food entrepreneur’s Hong Kong picks

Foodie Gerry Ma is no cook, but he knows where to find great Chinese cuisine in Hong Kong and chefs who exhibit excellent technique.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 12-14

Enjoy alfresco fondue at Zoku’s The Terrace, a festive set dinner by Ask for Alonzo, and a one-day-only Christmas charity brunch by Ando.

Zoku’s sukiyaki cheese fondue in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Best bars in Hong Kong

Why are so many Hong Kong bars closing? Industry insiders explain

High rents, a drop in international tourists, changing tastes and the Shenzhen effect are taking their toll, experts say. But there’s hope.

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Foxglove, a speakeasy in Hong Kong’s Central neighbourhood, is set to become the latest in a string of major bar closures in the city in 2025. Photo: Christopher DeWolf
Asian diaspora

Hong Kong-style cafe receives top recognition. Owner has been to the city once

Tarek Hassan fell in love with Hong Kong culture as a teen. Now his Gongfu Cafe & Bao in Ottawa, Canada, serves authentic tastes of the city.

Old Hong Kong

In pictures: a taste for winter warming fare, Hong Kong style

How Hongkongers keep warm in the winter, from steaming hotpot and snake soup to roasted chestnuts and bowls of crispy claypot rice.

Vietnam

Asian Angle | Vietnam’s anti-drug police are speaking Gen Z, and it’s working

Ho Chi Minh City’s police have found a way to wrap dry state messaging in viral humour, mirroring China’s digital playbook.

A viral social media post showing a faux wedding proposal created by an anti-drugs police unit photo in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Facebook/PC04.CATP
Fashion

The story of Paris’ famed Chinese restaurant Davé and its Hong Kong-born owner

Stars from Madonna to Tom Ford ate there. Now, Hong Kong-born owner Tai ‘Davé’ Cheung reflects as a new book of photos gives a peek inside.

(From left) Tai “Davé“ Cheung, US filmmaker Tim Burton and Lisa Marie Presley are pictured at Davé, a legendary Chinese restaurant in Paris, France that saw celebrities including Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Keanu Reeves, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Yves Saint Laurent and Tom Ford dine there.
France

‘You’ll notice the difference’: French almond makers take on US growers

French almond producers in Provence are positioning locally grown almonds in a premium segment and promoting environmental awareness.

New Openings

Hong Kong’s hottest new openings, from a quiet coffee shop to Yunnan cuisine

Jija by Vicky Lau brings Yunnan province flavours to Tsim Sha Tsui, minimalist cafe Moonary serves espresso-based drinks and matcha lattes, and Carmela offers a Mediterranean touch.

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Hong Kong

Local businesses are supporting Tai Po fire relief. Here’s how to help

Book a seven-course charity dinner or join a vintage and second-hand clothing swap, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross, and much more.

Top Swop is one of many Hong Kong businesses supporting the Tai Po fire victims. Photo: Top Swop
Asian recipes

How to use lime leaves in a Thai fried chicken dish your friends will love

Seldom used by home cooks, citrus leaves flavour curries and Cantonese snake soup. Here’s a chicken dish that uses them to delicious effect.

Hong Kong chefs

Why Francis founders changed tack for their new Hong Kong restaurant Carmela

Carmela in Sheung Wan offers more southern Mediterranean dishes than Francis’ Middle Eastern ones, with dishes including pasta and seafood.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 things to do in Hong Kong and ways to help this weekend, December 5-7

Whether heading to a bar that gives proceeds to Tai Po fire victims or donating essentials, there are various ways you can help this weekend.

As the focus shifts to rehousing those affected by the Tai Po fire, Hong Kong Charity Crossroads Foundation is asking for donations of essential items, which can be dropped off at its warehouse in Tuen Mun. Photo: Instagram/crossroadsglobalvillage
Luxury Hotels

Review | The Peninsula New York becomes a centre of seasonal cheer during the holidays

With luxe rooms, great dining and a 2024 refurbishment, the grande dame on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is always a great stay – but it’s even better during the holidays.

The lobby of the Peninsula New York during the holidays. Photo: Handout
Drink in Focus

Drink in Focus: Bancha & Chestnut Alexander at Madara

A creamy, earthy, tea-infused twist on the classic brandy Alexander, this cocktail evokes Hong Kong’s famous winter chestnut carts.

Japan

89-year-old baker’s ingredient of success: working with his son and grandson

Yasuo Ono’s nearly 60-year-old cake shop Emily, now in Owariasahi, Japan, thrives thanks to family support – and keeping things tasty.

Mainland China

Chinese consumer and tourism firms turn to shareholder perks to stimulate sales

Companies from Sichuan to Anhui offer discounts and free tickets to shareholders amid slowing consumption in mainland China.

Tourists visit Mount Emei in Sichuan province. Photo: Getty Images
Coffee

Mouthing Off | Want the best coffee in the morning? Improve your brew from the grounds up

Using the right grinder can make for more full-bodied coffee with a richer smell and more intense taste, experts say – but they’re not cheap.

Grinding you own coffee can give you a better tasting brew, but which grinder should you use? Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

Best things to eat in Chaoshan, a food paradise in China’s Guangdong province

Chef Huang Jinghui reveals the secrets of Chaoshan cuisine – also called Chiu Chow cuisine – from seasonal seafood to lion-head goose.

What to do in Hong Kong

‘Yummiest’ seafood, ‘scrumptious’ Indian: Tabla founder’s Hong Kong faves

Tania Mohan reveals her favourite restaurants in the city, from spicy Sichuan and char siu rice in Central to seafood on Po Toi Island.

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