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What to do in Hong Kong
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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
Cruise Restaurant & Bar’s Feast of Fortune afternoon tea set at the Hyatt Centric Victoria Harbour Hong Kong hotel. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 3-5

For a lighter take on the classic negroni, try Saicho’s Bittersweet Beginnings. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 3-4

Penicillin bar’s delicious One Penicillin, One Tree whisky cocktail is infused with waste white chocolate, and garnished with an edible “leather” made from leftover papaya seeds and strawberries. Photo: Handout

Drink in Focus: One Penicillin, One Tree at Penicillin cocktail bar

Chef Antonio Oviedo, co-owner of 22 Ships, suggests staying flexible. Photo: Nicholas Wong

What’s in store for Hong Kong’s dining scene in 2025? F&B leaders weigh in

The new marmitako dish at 22 Ships in Central, Hong Kong. Photo: Nicholas Wong

Dish in Focus: Marmitako at Spanish restaurant 22 Ships

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A roast pork and vegetable bento from Karui Bento. Photo: Instagram/@karuibento
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Bento to fine dining, a nutrition specialist’s top Hong Kong restaurants

Tricia Yap reveals her sushi treat spot, and where to find the best tsukemen outside Japan and ‘fantastic’ beef clay pot rice in Hong Kong.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 3-4

Hong Kong dining & recommendations

Luckin to Blue Bottle, 5 new Hong Kong cafes to try in January 2025

Art

Update | 12 Hong Kong art exhibitions in 2025, from Picasso to Renoir and Cézanne

Hong Kong art lovers have an exciting year in store, to judge by a slew of recently announced exhibitions. Here are 12 to look forward to.

Portrait de Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso. Photo: Handout
Veganism and vegetarianism

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, December 27-29

The AIA Carnival is back, a beloved cafe closes, you can learn about vegan cooking and there’s some Thai jewellery to shop – Lisa’s a fan.

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AIA Carnival super fans, including one who moved house to fit all her prizes

Running from December 20, 2024 to February 16, 2025, the much-loved event featuring rides, games, even a circus attracts dedicated visitors.

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Food and Drinks

Where a plant-based chef eats in Hong Kong, including ‘fun’ burgers

Christine Wong, vegan cookbook author, shares her favourite places to eat in Hong Kong and New York, from burgers to egg tarts to sushi.

Veggie4Love’s Drama Queen burger. Photo: Instagram/@veggie_4love
Food and Drinks

11 new restaurants in Hong Kong to try in January 2025

Chinese cuisines including Cantonese, Sichuan, Fujianese and Hunanese are represented, as well as Korean barbecue, Japanese and Basque fare.

Food and Drinks

7 of the most luxurious afternoon tea sets in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is known for its indulgent afternoon teas, but these elegant hotels and cafes – from The Tiffany Blue Box Café to Rosewood – take them to new heights

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.

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 food guide for December 27-29

Make the most of festive feasts, holiday treats and limited-time brunch menus before the end of 2024.

À Poêle festive dishes. Photo: Deadly Rabbits Concepts
Art

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

In How to Be Happy Together, artists consider the human connections economic migrants make and the sense of homelessness engendered by exile.

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.

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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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Park Ji-hyun as Mi-ju (left) and Song Seung-heon as Sung-jin in a still from Hidden Face.
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.

Darkside’s new cocktail menu features classic recipes from the 1920s and 1930s. Photo: DarkSide
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.

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.

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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.

An artist’s impression of an inflatable fountain that resembles a school of koi in Tsuen Wan Park in Hong Kong. Image: Design District Hong Kong
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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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.

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.

Violinist Anders Hui performs at a news conference to announce the Fringe Festival 2025. Photo; Jonathan Wong
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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Donnie Yen in a still from The Prosecutor.
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.

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.

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.

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams exhibition, at Max Trade Center in San Po Kong. 16DEC24 SCMP / Jonathan Wong
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.

Menaka Jayakody and Alexander Nielsen of wellness company Dharma Bums. Photo: Kylie Knott
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.

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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