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9 September, 2024
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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
Mahaniyom’s “Watermelon” cocktail. The Bangkok bar plans to bring four signatures to The Opposites in Hong Kong on Saturday, December 14. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 12-14

Crushed Wine Bar’s new seasonal menu features dishes that celebrate the rich flavours of the colder months. Photo: Karling Hamil

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 13-15

Bedu’s famous Honey Baked Feta. Photo: Handout

Dish in focus: honey baked feta from Middle Eastern restaurant Bedu

Our selection of the season’s tipples includes Tribute, a Christmas cocktail at LPM, Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

7 best Christmas cocktails in Hong Kong: from mulled wine to spiked chai

Rakuen in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, is a long-established Okinawan-style izakaya. Photo: Rakuen

Why do Hongkongers love izakayas so much – and what exactly are they?

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Mahaniyom’s “Watermelon” cocktail. The Bangkok bar plans to bring four signatures to The Opposites in Hong Kong on Saturday, December 14. Photo: Handout
100 Top Tables

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.

Hong Kong dining & recommendations

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

Banking & finance

Chinese soy sauce maker Foshan Haitian eyes dual listing in Hong Kong

Christmas

5 Hong Kong food and drink gifts you can give this Christmas

From Japanese winter desserts to a Hong Kong chef’s ‘sexy’ Panettone to sparkling tea, these gifts are sure to make loved ones’ mouths water.

Hong Kong bakery Maya’s Jolly Holiday Box is one of our favourite food and drink-related Christmas present ideas this year. Photo: Maya
Tourism

Japanese bento box meals going global, starting in Switzerland

Travellers using Zurich Central Station will get a chance to try ekiben, or bento box meals, as their Japanese makers eye global expansion.

Hong Kong

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 13-15

Keep warm and indulge in winter comfort food like mac and cheese, cheese fondue and Christmas yule log this weekend.

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Asia travel

Planning a Chinese family’s multigenerational holiday to Hokkaido, Japan

Keeping everybody happy on a multigenerational holiday to the Japanese island proved to be far simpler than feared.

Cape Kamui on Hokkaido, Japan, has an observatory and lighthouse that can be reached on an easy 20-minute walk. Photo: Shutterstock
Women and gender

Women-only cafe in Germany a ‘place of retreat’, says teenage owner

18-year-old Sumeja Zumberi’s cafe Baresha offers women in Bremen, many from countries where sexes meet separately, a rare space of their own.

What to do in Hong Kong

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.

Hong Kong

On the Menu | Tsui Wah’s flagship is reopening, but are diners still hungry for it?

After closing its Central branch in 2020, followed by a string of others, the beleaguered restaurant chain is hoping for a triumphant return.

Bowls of noodles at Tsui Wah in Hong Kong. After closing its Central flagship in 2020, followed by a string of other branches, the beleaguered chain is hoping for a triumphant return. Photo: Charmaine Mok
Asian Cuisine

New York Korean restaurant Jungsik’s third Michelin star a milestone

Jungsik the US’ first Korean restaurant with 3 Michelin stars, and the first place in New York in 12 years to be raised to guide’s top rank.

Grilled octopus with gochujang aioli, served at Jungsik in New York. Photo: Jungsik
Social media

9 food trends that should go, according to food writers, chefs, food lovers

Digital menus, calorie counts, deconstructed dishes, focus on a single ingredient among the pet peeves of 2024 that need an expiration date.

Asia travel

Indonesia’s smallest city offers beaches, boat rides and seafood galore

Sibolga may not feature on the international tourist trail – unlike the nearby Nias and Mentawai Islands – but there is enough to do to make a short stop-over in Indonesia’s smallest city worthwhile

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

What is Pei Pa Koa and why is Ariana Grande adding it to her ‘vocal box’?

The Chinese cough syrup, loved by singers like Cynthia Erivo and Jonathan Bailey, is also finding its way into cocktails around the world.

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Ariana Grande arrives at the fourth annual Academy Museum Gala on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Middle East

Dish in focus: honey baked feta from Middle Eastern restaurant Bedu

A favourite since Bedu opened in Hong Kong in 2018, the moreish honey baked feta never fails to please, despite taking various forms over the years – chef Ali Ahmadpour tells us why.

Bedu’s famous Honey Baked Feta. Photo: Handout
Asia travel

Insiders’ guide to Tainan, Taiwan: where history, art and cuisine come alive

Taiwan’s fourth city has plenty to satisfy the inquisitive visitor, especially in the walkable district of Anping, which is brimming with culture.

What to do in Hong Kong

7 spots in Hong Kong for matcha drinks, ice cream, cake and more

From a pet-friendly cafe to Hong Kong’s first home-grown matcha brand, the seven best places to go to taste the beloved powdered green tea.

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China travel

6 trendy Shanghai bistros for great meals, cosy interiors ... and an alpaca

These bistros are popular with Shanghai diners for their informal surroundings and reasonable prices. One of them has an unusual house pet.

La Blanche is a chic European diner on Shanghai’s Hengshan Road. Photo: Xiaohongshu/@shirleyliw
Wine and Spirits

Why a Japanese spirit has been made with Thai rice for 600 years

Unlike sake, Okinawan spirit awamori is distilled, making it much more potent. To this day it is made with unpolished Thai long-grain rice.

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong restaurant featured in Stephen Chow film draws crowds before closure

Hung Wan Cafe, the filming location of 1998 comedy The Lucky Guy, will close after Christmas following more than 40 years of operations.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong restaurant chain expands to ... Warsaw, Poland

Ask For Alonzo owner Bart Szyniec talks about opening a restaurant in his native Poland and aspiring to be ‘the Maxim’s of Western eateries’.

Ask For Alonzo in Tai Hang. The Hong Kong restaurant chain is expanding to Warsaw, Poland. Photo: Instagram/@askforalonzo
Shanghai

How Shanghai’s academic Bunker bar is redefining intellectual nightlife

Bunker went viral this year, pioneering a new trend: academic bars, where people and professors meet to discuss burning topics over tipples.

Bunker, the Shanghai bar that went viral in China this summer. Photo: Xiu Chunlei
Hong Kong

Hong Kong ‘haunted house’ hosts US$700-a-head Dangerous Dinner

Yu Yuen sat abandoned until designer Sacha Yasumoto chose it to hold an exclusive dinner. If it’s haunted the ghosts are harmless, she says.

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Hong Kong

PostMag Christmas gift guide: 9 ideas for the foodie in your life

From dumpling-shaped salt and pepper shakers to egg tart scented candles or a gourmet Christmas ham, snap these up for your reservation-making, dinner-party-throwing friend.

What to do in Hong Kong

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

A flea market for finding some quirky gifts, a pet market and a music festival are among the draws this weekend. Or you can try aerial yoga.

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Central Market in Central, Hong Kong, is hosting a weekend pet market, with quirky items for sale and workshops for pet owners. It’s one of our picks of the best things to do in Hong Kong over the December 6-8 weekend.
Wellness

Why eating dark chocolate could lower your diabetes risk

Christmas means lots of tempting chocolate. A study shows eating five small portions a week of the dark kind may have major health benefits.

There is lots of chocolate to tempt this holiday season. For your health’s sake, choose dark chocolate. Photo: Shutterstock
Wine and Spirits

Japan’s sake brewers hope Unesco heritage listing boosts sales

Hong Kong sake-focused restaurant founder among those hailing sake’s heritage listing. Brewers of the rice wine hoping for rise in exports.

Food and agriculture

Why prickly pear is a crop with potential in a warming world

In arid southern Italy, where drought, disease and global warming ravage olive trees, a start-up is growing prickly pear, a food and biofuel.

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