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last updated:
9 September, 2024
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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
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
Food and Drinks

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.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 27-29

Art

Hong Kong art show homage to Wong Kar-wai asks: can we be happy together?

Wellness

Year of the Snake retreat in Hong Kong to feature snake-themed exercises

The day-long fitness retreat taking place on Lamma Island before Lunar New Year will include strength-building, yoga and Muay Thai classes.

Two Sweet Feet’s Muay Thai coach Natalie Sin will put retreat participants through the paces of her martial art. Photo: Two Sweet Feet HK
Asian cinema: Korean films

Review | Hidden Face, a Korean erotic thriller, serves up scandalous fun

This sexy K-movie follows a conductor who sleeps with the replacement player for his cellist fiancée, who seems to have disappeared.

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Food and Drinks

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.

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Art

Chinese-American artist Walasse Ting’s vibrant, flamboyant paintings

A new Hong Kong exhibition shows how Ting’s artistic tendencies evolved and how he married both Chinese and Western influences in his works.

Detail from Charming Ladies (1990s), by Walasse Ting. Photo: Alisan Fine Arts
Food and Drinks

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.

Art

Artistic attractions with designs on tourism make districts worth a look

Often overlooked by tourists, Tsuen Wan and Sha Tau Kok might just rise up the bucket-list rankings thanks to outdoor artworks by En Iwamura and Vivian Ho.

Hong Kong cinema

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.
Food and Drinks

Where an Iranian chef in Hong Kong goes to eat steak, kebab and halal food

Ali Ahmadpour, chef at Bedu, on his go-to places to eat in Hong Kong, from a North American diner to dim sum and roast goose restaurants.

The chef of New Istanbul Kebab on Hart Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui, cuts lamb to make a kebab. Photo: Bruce Yan
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Fringe Club revives Fringe Festival after 27-year gap

Mindfulness workshops, jazz and classical music concerts, dance and drama events to feature in 24-day Fringe Festival 2025.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | The Prosecutor: Donnie Yen literally fights for justice in court drama

The Prosecutor offers great action from Donnie Yen but with its simplistic representation of justice, don’t expect a hard-hitting drama.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 20-22

Take a break from festive feasting with a hairy crab omakase, indulge in harbour-side afternoon tea, and round off the weekend with a traditional Sunday roast.

Delicate scallops drizzled with yuzu ponzu and shiso for a refreshing burst of flavours will be served at a two-night only omakase at Liberty Exchange. Photo: Iron Chef Hong Kong x Liberty Exchange
Food and Drinks

Your 100 Top Tables Hong Kong weekend drinks guide, for December 19-21

Enjoy a feast at Honky Tonks Tavern, indulge in Dr Seuss cocktails at Singular Concepts’ venues, and wrap up the holiday with some final drinks at DarkSide.

Yurakucho’s Merry Mischief Midori as part of Singular Concept’s The Grinch Who Stole Cocktails event. Photo: Handout
Art

Enter this Hong Kong ‘cave’ to discover more about prehistoric cultures

Items about ancient and prehistoric civilisations on show at Juen Juen Gung include ceremonial demon masks and precious carvings.

Wellness

The Hong Kong yoga and farming couple making wellness less ‘culty’

She teaches yoga, he preaches permaculture. They’re holding an all-day event to pass on their skills that ends with a chat around a campfire.

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Food and Drinks

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, December 15-21

From pineapple-bun burgers at Bolo Bolo and Korean BBQ at Culinary Class Wars’ Saemaeul Sikdang, to French food at Marmo Bistro and Hokkaido dessert brand Snowsand’s first Hong Kong pop-up.

Discover Hong Kong’s latest culinary hotspots such as the Marmo Bistro at Rosewood Hong Kong. Photo: Marmo Bistro
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Last Song for You: Natalie Hsu melts hearts in poignant fantasy romance

Natalie Hsu, helped by Ekin Cheng and Mirror’s Ian Chan, shines in this Hong Kong healing drama about memories, regret and lost love.

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Art

Contemporary art’s biggest selfie takers face off at Hong Kong’s M+

The American and Japanese artists known for masquerading as women from movies to critique society have their works up for comparison at M+.

Food and Drinks

Hong Kong’s obsession with ice cream is anything but chill

A wave of new gelato and ice cream shop openings – in winter, no less – brings flavours from around the world.

Liz & Tori is named for chef Vicky Cheng’s daughters. Photo: Liz & Tori
Old Hong Kong

How Hong Kong’s Portuguese shaped society in the city

This Museum of History exhibition focuses on the Portuguese contribution to Hong Kong, from sports to education.

Hong Kong-based Portuguese celebrate their National Day with a folk dance at the Club de Recreio, in 1978. Photo: SCMP Archives
Photography

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

Try truffle bread and a gong bath, see some selfie art, watch an award-winning, if tragic, film and more in Hong Kong this weekend.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 12-14

This weekend, enjoy cheeky concoctions on Peel Street, swing by a Japanese guest shift in mid-century Hong Kong surrounds, and enjoy Thai flavours at a one-night only takeover in Central.

Food and Drinks

The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, December 8-14

A wine bar and restaurant inspired by Melbourne vibes, harbour views atop the Star Ferry pier, steak in Wan Chai, and an old gallery’s new home.

JPS Gallery has moved into a historic tenement building. Photo: JPS Gallery
Food and Drinks

Yorkshire pudding, ‘exquisite’ dishes? Londoner finds it all in Hong Kong

Jeweller Chantel Shafie, who has been in Hong Kong over 20 years, shares where she eats classic British fare, traditional dim sum and more.

Dim sum at Maxim’s Palace, which has “ladies pushing dim sum carts”, Chantel Shafie says. Photo: SCMP
Explore Hong Kong

What and who to see on ‘special’ Kat O island in Hong Kong

Also known as Crooked Island, Kat O was a thriving fishing and farming community in the past. Now residents love its relaxed atmosphere.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Haunting Call: Lin Min-chen sees ghosts in subpar Danny Pang horror

A live streamer steals a mobile phone that serves as an instrument of revenge for a ghost she befriends. Intriguing, but don’t expect scares.

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