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9 September, 2024
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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
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The Opposites’ spirit-free menu, which includes this Apple Custard Pie tipple, is perfect for welcoming the new year with a healthier mindset. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 27-29

À Poêle festive dishes. Photo: Deadly Rabbits Concepts

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 27-29

From Amber and Aqua, to The Upper House’s Salisterra and Morton’s The Steakhouse, check out our list of the seven best New Year’s Eve dinners in Hong Kong for 2024. Photo: Handout

The 7 best New Year’s Eve dinners in Hong Kong for 2024

DarkSide’s Festive Manhattan, part of its special Christmas cocktail menu, is made with panettone-infused cognac. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Drink in Focus: Festive Manhattan at DarkSide

Hong Kong’s professional chefs may be among the best in the world, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t experienced their share of disasters. Photo: Ilus AI

Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s top chefs’ worst kitchen nightmares

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The Opposites’ spirit-free menu, which includes this Apple Custard Pie tipple, is perfect for welcoming the new year with a healthier mindset. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 27-29

This weekend, say farewell to a popular speakeasy, make the rounds of Hong Kong’s brightest new bars, and welcome the new year with booze-free tipples.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 27-29

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong restaurants and bars enjoy business bump over Christmas

Wellness

Why there’s more to cinnamon, the ‘Christmas spice’, than you may think

Cinnamon smells like Christmas, gives flavour to food without adding many calories, and may lower blood glucose and reduce inflammation.

Cinnamon sticks are taken from the inner bark of the cinnamon tree. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | True Hong Kong service won’t be found in an order-it-yourself app

From QR codes to place an order in restaurants to self-service checkouts, cold tech is taking away the warmth of proper service.

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Christmas

For the love of cod, why bacalhau is Portugal’s classic Christmas fish

In cod they trust – for centuries Portuguese have eaten the preserved fish, and it is traditionally served during the holiday season.

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India

‘Bit of a joke’: India’s popcorn tax sparks roasting of complex GST system

Social media users slam country’s excessive regulations and high taxation after government’s move to impose three-tier tax on popcorn.

India’s GST Council says non-branded popcorn mixed with salt and spices will attract a 5 per cent GST, pre-packaged and branded popcorn 12 per cent, and caramel popcorn, categorised as a sugar confectionery, 18 per cent. Photo: Shutterstock
100 Top Tables

The 7 best New Year’s Eve dinners in Hong Kong for 2024

Ring in 2025 with decadent dinners and lively parties across the city, from Amber and Aqua, to The Upper House’s Salisterra and Morton’s The Steakhouse.

Hong Kong property

Mainland Chinese retailers make their presence felt in Hong Kong

China’s largest coffee chain opens first outlet in the city as it goes up against US rival Starbucks.

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Hong Kong

Can this new wave of Hong Kong farmers bring agriculture back to the city?

Netflix docu Kiss The Ground argues that sustainable regenerative farming practices are a potential solution to our climate crisis – meet the Hong Kong food producers getting down to earth.

Chunling Fong, director of Farmhouse Production in Hong Kong. Photo: Alexander Mak
France

Why one of Paris’ hardest-to-book restaurants is in a theme park

Bistrot Chez Rémy pays homage to the 2007 film Ratatouille. If it’s so hard to get a table, is the food worth the Disneyland entry?

As an homage to the 2007 film Ratatouille, Bistrot Chez Rémy is brilliant. But is the food, which is not cheap, worth the US$59 theme park entry? Photo: Disney
Wellness

Light to moderate wine drinking could be as good as statins for your heart

It’s often said light to moderate wine drinking is good for heart health – but how much wine is that? Scientists have put a number on it.

Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, December 23-28

Indulge in Michelin-starred Christmas fare at Petrus, drink classic cocktails at Darkside, enjoy the harbourside AIA Carnival, and check out MGM Macau’s new show.

100 Top Tables

Drink in Focus: Festive Manhattan at DarkSide

This classic cocktail gets a thoroughly festive makeover for the holidays, complete with a side of panettone.

DarkSide’s Festive Manhattan, part of its special Christmas cocktail menu, is made with panettone-infused cognac. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Wellness

Planning a sober Christmas? Tips on avoiding alcohol and having a good time

Sober coaches, sober bar managers and happily sober people give their tips on avoiding alcohol – one trick is to leave a party early.

You do not have to drink alcohol to have a good time this Christmas. Sober people offer tips on staying tipple-free. Photo: Shutterstock
Malaysia

Malaysia’s new wave chefs drive Kuala Lumpur’s culinary boom

The city’s vibrant culinary scene is attracting Michelin recognition and enthusiastic visitors, making Malaysia a rising food tourism star.

What to do in Hong Kong

8 Hong Kong New Year’s Eve dinners, a January 1 brunch to ring in 2025

Whether you want to party at the Mondrian, sail in style on the Aqua Luna, or nurse your hangover at Nicholini’s, we have the place for you.

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Hong Kong

Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s top chefs’ worst kitchen nightmares

They’re at the top of their game now, but even the city’s chefs at Michelin-starred restaurants, or luxury hotels like the Grand Hyatt or Rosewood, once had to deal with a mess of their own making.

Hong Kong’s professional chefs may be among the best in the world, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t experienced their share of disasters. Photo: Ilus AI
Hong Kong economy

Celebrate Christmas and New Year in Hong Kong: 7 things to do in the city

The Post explores what the city has more to offer beyond wining and dining this festive season.

Japan

Japan brewery aims to make world’s first space sake, sell it for US$640,000

Asahi Shuzo said the ingredients would be sent to the International Space Station in late 2025.

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Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: from Hong Kong farms to Vienna’s Strauss

This week’s PostMag explores regenerative agriculture in the region and the ongoing debate on cultural restitution. Happy festive read!

A new crop of farmers are taking a more holistic approach to farming in Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Chinese culture

Why savoury Chinese dumplings are becoming a winter solstice favourite

Sweet dumplings are common at winter solstice, but Taishanese savoury ones are trending on social media as influencers return to their roots.

Savory Taishanese tangyuan glutinous rice dumplings are gaining popularity as second- and third-generation Chinese influencers in the West share their parents’ recipes. The dumplings are a must at winter solstice and Chinese New Year. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong society

Suspected pufferfish poisoning leaves 2 Hong Kong men in hospital

One man is in a critical condition and the other is stable after eating a pufferfish they caught themselves.

Hong Kong society

Dried fruits have highest sulphite levels, Hong Kong survey finds

But researchers say health risks are low given the population’s low dietary intake of the food preservative.

Indonesia

Can Indonesia’s world-class cuisine food become its next global superpower?

Indonesian cuisine, voted the world’s seventh best by TasteAtlas, is struggling for global influence despite outranking French and Japanese dishes.

Rendang is a spicy beef stew from Indonesia. The country’s cuisine was recently voted the world’s seventh-best food by TasteAtlas. Photo: Shutterstock
What to do in Hong Kong

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

A dance workout to get in shape for the holidays, a charity roast goose feast and a celebration of a Japanese pop duo are among our picks.

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Fans of Japanese pop duo Yoasobi are in for a treat with an exhibition at Airside in Kai Tak, Kowloon, one of our pick of things to see and do this weekend in Hong Kong.
Asia travel

Recap | Unmissable Japan, from Fukuoka’s yatai feasts to luxury ryokans and a samurai’s trek

Looking for a reason to visit Japan? Well, here are five, from a culinary adventure along a historical samurai trek and Okinawa’s gems, to the best Mount Fuji has to offer.

Technology

The restaurants where robot chefs prepare your salad

US salad chain Sweetgreen is rolling out automated kitchens where robots make the salads. Every bowl still has a human touch – for now.

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