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What to do in Hong Kong

What to do in Hong Kong
Your ultimate guide to what’s on in Hong Kong, including insider tips, weekend round-ups, curated guides, plus unique happenings across the city.
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
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

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

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 21-23

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

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

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

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

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Jennifer Yu (left) and Liu Kuan-ting in a still from Double Happiness.
Asian cinema: Chinese films

Review | Double Happiness: Liu Kuan-ting, Jennifer Yu lead clever wedding comedy

A couple have two simultaneous wedding ceremonies to keep their parents apart in Double Happiness, an ingenious comedy of errors.

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Food and Drinks

How did cookies kickstart a community social movement for one lost Hongkonger?

Explore Hong Kong

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

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Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year fireworks dazzle as visitor numbers gallop ahead

City leader John Lee vows to carry out reforms at full speed, says to public ‘let’s march forward bravely and confidently together’ in new year.

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Spectators get a prime view of the fireworks from the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Food and Drinks

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.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

With Blades of the Guardians, Yuen Woo-ping revives the wuxia blockbuster

Hong Kong martial arts choreographer and director Yuen Woo-ping returns with an epic wuxia, starring Wu Jing and Nicholas Tse.

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Food and Drinks

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.

Roasted goose puff from Man Ho at the JW Marriott Hotel in Admiralty, Hong Kong, a favourite dinner restaurant for chef Keith Yam of Tuber Umberto Bombana and Cannubi. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Food and Drinks

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.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Blades of the Guardians: Wu Jing leads star-studded Chinese martial arts epic

Starring Wu Jing, Nicholas Tse and Chen Lijun, the visually stunning Blades of the Guardians is one of the fiercest wuxia films in years.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Jackie Chan’s hot streak continues with Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe

Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe manages to overcome its previous instalment’s failings to become a fun, wholesome family adventure.

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Jackie Chan in a still from Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe (category IIA, Mandarin), directed by Derek Hui. Ma Li co-stars.
Hong Kong society

Thousands flock to Hong Kong temple for Lunar New Year incense stick ritual

Wong Tai Sin Temple throws open its doors as worshippers pray for prosperity and health in the Year of the Horse.

Worshippers including veteran actress Lana Wong (centre) offer incense sticks at Wong Tai Sin Temple. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong society

Curry fishball toys a hit as Hong Kong nostalgia shines at Lunar New Year fair

Vendors say locally designed Hong Kong-themed merchandise drew in customers at Victoria Park’s Lunar New Year fair.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Night King: Dayo Wong, Sammi Cheng lead enjoyably fluffy nightclub comedy

While slightly disjointed and overlong, Night King delivers a fun blend of romance and nostalgic glamour set in Hong Kong’s nightclub scene.

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Food and Drinks

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.

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
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
Lunar New Year

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 13-15

From the new Wuthering Heights film to a horse-themed Chinese art show and a couples-focused sound bath, here are our picks for the weekend.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | The Snowball on a Sunny Day: Mark Six miss turns into mayhem in family comedy

This witty Lunar New Year film follows a woman pretending to have won the Mark Six lottery after failing to buy the winning ticket.

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Food and Drinks

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
Wellness

Hong Kong Ballet and Pure Fitness join forces to offer new exercise programme

The dance and strength training crossover aims to dispel the perception of ballet as an inaccessible and elite art form.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

From Flower Years’ Drunk in Love to Mostly Harmless’ Mardi Gras, there are parties for romantics and rebels this Valentine’s weekend.

Food and Drinks

Hotel chef’s Hong Kong picks for Italian fine dining, French food and more

Genoa native Fabio Mariella shares his favourite restaurants for top Italian dishes, French chicken, dim sum, Peking duck and Indian.

Tagliolini with white truffle at Italian restaurant 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana, where Holiday Inn Golden Mile’s executive chef Fabio Mariella goes for “something different”. He also shares his Hong Kong picks for “simple but good” clay pot rice, dim sum, Peking duck, French and Indian food. Photo: Otto e Mezzo Bombana
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong food guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

This Valentine’s weekend has everything from Japanese comfort food and classic Italian romance, to 4 courses bookended by oysters and pavlova.

Hong Kong restaurant La Taverna is ready to tempt you this Valentine’s weekend with La Mela del Peccato (Apple of Sin) dessert. Photo: Handout
American cinema

Review | Wuthering Heights: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi sizzle in modern moorcore

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights captivates with stunning visuals in the Yorkshire Moors and sizzling chemistry between Elordi and Robbie.

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Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, February 8-14

Try two new menus at Michelin-starred Hansik Goo, combine alcohol and tattoos at Cordis Hotel’s Alibi bar, or enjoy retro-futuristic neon art at Tai Kwun.

Fashion

Hong Kong’s indie fashion labels bloom at new Tsim Sha Tsui pop-up

Chance Encounters is a pop-up run by the brands YanYan, Aenrmous and Kinyan Lam that aims to elevate Hong Kong’s indie fashion scene.

YanYan Knits founders Phyllis Chan (left) and Suzzie Chung are pictured at Chance Encounters, a collaborative, evolving Hong Kong indie fashion pop-up in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: Jonathan Wong
On Our Radar

Fireworks views, fortune tosses – and the city’s most wanted tables

The best restaurants in Hong Kong to see in the Year of the Horse, from Lai Ching Heen to China Tang.

Lunar New Year dishes at Hotel Icon’s Above & Beyond restaurant. Photo: courtesy Hotel Icon
Explore Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 6-8

The last days of a designer book sale, a TCM cocktail experience, a dim-sum-inspired exhibition and more await Hongkongers this weekend.

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Asian cinema: Japanese films

Review | Tokyo Taxi: Takuya Kimura and Chieko Baisho lead moving Yoji Yamada drama

Tokyo Taxi is an utterly captivating ride that sees an elderly woman bond with her taxi driver while reminiscing about her eventful life.

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