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What to do in Hong Kong

What to do in Hong Kong
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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
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Get your fill of art, washed down with cocktails if desired, join in some art-based journaling, or snap up some limited-edition sneakers.

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13 of the best new places to eat and drink in Hong Kong in April 2025

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Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

The city’s bar scene is shifting from high-end molecular mixology to cosy neighbourhood watering holes that offer a welcoming and community-focused atmosphere.

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Art Basel

How HKwalls transformed Hong Kong’s streets with vibrant art

HKwalls returns to Arts Month for its 10th anniversary, with a new pop-up platform for independent galleries and emerging artists.

HKwalls celebrates a decade of street art in the city. Photo: Handout
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International visitors return as Art Basel Hong Kong gets off to good start

International visitors return en masse as galleries voice confidence that the 2025 fair will be a significant improvement over recent years.

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Beyond Art Basel 2025: 5 events to check out during Hong Kong Art Week

The city’s art fans are spoiled for choice this Art Months: as well as Art Basel, there’s Art Central and 1880 Hong Kong, plus events at Sotheby’s, Pacific Place, The Upper House and Hong Kong Arts Centre.

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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 27-29

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Honky Tonks Tavern during their 4th anniversary celebration in 2024. Photo: Handout
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Peg O’ My Heart: great visuals, awful story in Nick Cheung horror thriller

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 expands beyond its traditional showcase

The fair extends its reach to embrace tech, film and indigenous art, with more than 20 new galleries taking part this year.

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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 28-30

Grab the best of BaseHall on the go, take the last opportunity to try Ming Court’s four-hands dinner, and enjoy a leisurely Sunday at Omaroo Grill.

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Ghosts and cyborgs on view at Art Basel Hong Kong

Curated by Para Site, this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong Film program has 7 screenings delving into modern life and creative expression.

Art Basel Hong Kong will take place this week. Photo: Art Basel Hong Kong
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Beyond Art Basel Hong Kong: free events to check out during Arts Month

As well as ticketed events Art Basel and Art Central, free happenings this Art Week include talks about the role of tech and AI in the art world, installations, workshops and experimental music shows.

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Drink in Focus: 1881 at DarkSide

The Rosewood Hong Kong bar’s new drinks menu celebrates its Kowloon location and famous sites such as Kai Tak Airport and 1881, the latter of which inspired a tequila- or mescal-based savoury cocktail.

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Beethoven meets space battles in ‘first manga opera’, coming to Hong Kong

Conductor Laurence Equilbey and her Insula Orchestra will perform Beethoven Wars: A Battle for Peace at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March.

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Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, March 23-29

Experience the Hong Kong Sevens at the new Kai Tak stadium, enjoy free art exhibitions at Tai Kwun Contemporary, try a Bruce Lee cocktail, or relish two-Michelin-starred Arbor’s latest tasting menu.

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Is this our dystopian future? Hong Kong artist’s fantasy 2084

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Want to live longer in good health? Longevity wellness gyms may help

‘Brain-body’ workouts mix physical and cognitive training to extend health spans. Other gyms use long-established therapies to slow ageing.

Chi Longevity with Sparkd fuses physical and cognitive training. Photo: Chi Longevity with Sparkd
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Conversation of creativity: Picasso masterpieces meet modern Asian works

A Hong Kong exhibition puts the Spanish painter and sculptor alongside some of Asia’s finest in a groundbreaking artistic dialogue to try and reveal the man behind the myth.

Pleasure of Picasso – Mother and Child series (2020-2024) by Keiichi Tanaami, displayed at the “Picasso for Asia – A Conversation” exhibition at M+ Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District. Photo: Alexander Mak
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Hong Kong gong master rings up 10 years of changing lives

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Picasso, Warhol and more land in Hong Kong for art month

With Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Central about to open, here’s our rundown of this year’s highlights.

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