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Sam Evans
Sam Evans
Hong Kong
Production Editor, Culture
Sam specialises in Hong Kong food culture and history, with much of his time spent meandering neighbourhoods in search of hidden local gems and the characters behind them. He has worked in media since 2010 – predominantly in Japan and Hong Kong – and likes to tell stories through the written word and video.
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The new family floor at the five-star Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong hotel offers parents and their children ‘family-friendly luxury’ in a fun-filled fantasyland. We stayed for a night.

Selling high-quality, low-priced food, Hong Kong’s numerous cooked-food centres are the understated masters of the local culinary scene, but we must keep loving them, or risk losing them.

The cha chaan teng, or Hong Kong-style cafe, is a definitive food experience in the city. In the wake of the pandemic, we look at the cafes that didn’t make it, and others that are determined to keep on serving.