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Hong Kong chefs
Get to know Hong Kong’s best chefs, from icons of Michelin-starred fine dining restaurants to talented young chefs in the kitchen.
Butter-aged lobster at Hong Kong restaurant Ankoma. Photo: Ankoma
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The flavours of Hong Kong? 5 up-and-coming chefs weigh in

Inspired variously by street food, Cantopop and locally caught fish, chefs put new and flavourful spins on familiar Hong Kong dishes.

Art Basel

Is food art? How Hong Kong creatives are bridging the gap

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Hong Kong restaurant China Tang reopens with an inspired new menu

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Dish in Focus: Farmhouse Productions tomatoes at Roganic

Chef Adam Catterall champions sustainable dining through his zero-waste menus and relationships with local suppliers.

Farmhouse tomatoes in perilla and coal with fermented pistachio, at Roganic in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 30 – June 1

Enjoy Yat Tung Heen’s zongzi, try Ruen’s new hawker-style menu, and indulge in a 7-course Black Pearl Tasting Menu at Celestial Court.

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Cold, or fried with XO sauce? Creative ways to serve sticky rice dumplings

Drizzled in honey, fried with a fish sauce dip. Hong Kong chefs share inventive ways to serve Dragon Boat Festival snack we usually steam.

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Where a French chef eats reminders of home in Hong Kong

Rex Wine & Grill’s Thomas Caro shares his favourite places to eat in Hong Kong for ‘heavenly’ pizza, French pastries and Cantonese classics.

A pizza from Fiata Pizza. Photo: Fiata Pizza
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How Hong Kong restaurant Gróa grew from smoothie bars and bento

Wellness entrepreneur Cheman Cheung on why his new Hong Kong restaurant, Gróa, in Repulse Bay, aims to not just feed but rejuvenate diners.

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Chef Marino D’Antonio on his culinary journey from Italy to Beijing and Macau

After working with Umberto Bombana in Beijing, D’Antonio is once again partnering with the legendary chef – this time in Macau.

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3 new pastry chefs in Hong Kong who are redefining desserts

‘Sweet but not too sweet’ – Eve Minialai of Louise, Leo Faler of Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic, and Astoria Koh of Caprice rise to the challenge.

Hongkongers like their dessert a little less sweet than Westerners, and three pasty chefs are rising to the challenge. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 23-25

Take shelter from the summer heat this weekend with a seasonal Japanese bento, Wagyu burgers and a musical Italian feast.

Delicate salmon balls from Honjo’s new bento lunch. Photo: Handout
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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.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 16-18

Round off your week with steak night, start your Saturday slow with a coffee and a pastry, and celebrate with a Spanish fiesta this Sunday.

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

There are 77 items on the ambitious menu of Shanghai Plus – and it’s light and healthy, perfect for the modern diner.

Chef Edmond Ip’s latest venture is Shanghai Plus, where he brings a Cantonese sensibility to Shanghainese cuisine. Photo: Shanghai Plus
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Where Polish chef in Hong Kong eats lunch and late-night Japanese

Soho House chef Krzysztof Czerwinski shares his top picks for lunch, Italian food and after-hours Japanese, and a ‘charming’ Cantonese joint.

Okonomiyaki at Kozy Okonomi-yaki Teppan-yaki restaurant. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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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.

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Vancouver bakeries didn’t satisfy Hongkonger so she opened her own

When Stephanie Wong shut her Hong Kong restaurant she needed a breather. Now she is back in the kitchen, having opened a bakery in Vancouver.

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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
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China’s Black Pearl dining guide makes its international bow

At its first awards ceremony outside China, in Singapore, chefs talked up the influence of Chinese answer to the Michelin Guide.

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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.

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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.

Watermark’s Weekend Harbour Brunch Bliss. Photo: Watermark
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French bistro classics star at new Hong Kong restaurant Jean-Pierre

Chef John Troupis talks about the new member of the Black Sheep Restaurants family, which pays homage to traditional Parisian bistros.

Classic French cuisine such as steack au poivre (pepper steak) is on the menu at Jean-Pierre. Photo: Jean-Pierre
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From Rome, Hong Kong and Canada, chefs share the art of the artichoke

Don’t be intimidated by its appearance: find out what top chefs at Ama Ristorante and Amber in Hong Kong, and Published on Main in Vancouver, love about artichokes, and their favourite ways to cook them.

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Why ex-Caprice manager opened Hong Kong’s ‘first cheese omakase and bar’

Jeremy Evrard’s dream project Roucou, in Central, offers non-pasteurised artisan cheeses and an eight-seat cheese omakase.

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Word on the StrEAT: 9 restaurants and bars that left their mark on Hong Kong’s dining scene

In keeping with the Easter theme of revival, some of the city’s top names in F&B recall erstwhile establishments that have left indelible memories.

Some of Hong Kong’s top names in F&B recall erstwhile establishments that left indelible memories – like the world-famous Jumbo Floating Restaurant. Photo: Dickson Lee
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What can Hong Kong’s top pizza chefs learn from Asia-Pacific’s No 1?

Four Hong Kong pizza parlours have been ranked among the best in Asia-Pacific. What they do well and what sets Tokyo rival in first place apart.

Chef Salvatore Fiata at his pizzeria, Fiata by Salvatore Fiata, in Central, Hong Kong, one of four in the city to make the 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific 2025 list. Fiata and fellow chefs reveal what goes into making a great pizza. Photo: Fiata by Salvatore Fiata
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The secret to great pizza? It’s how you ferment the dough, chef says

Valentino Ugolini worked with Umberto Bombana in Hong Kong to perfect pizza dough, lessons he applies at Venetian-themed trattoria Venedia.

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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.

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