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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Ming Pavilion’s Beng Hiang pop-up at Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 27-March 1

From celebrating love to leaving the past behind, Hong Kong’s bars have you covered this Valentine’s weekend. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

Crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock in Hong Kong is inspired by the cuisine of Kerala in South India. Photo: Handout

Dish in focus: crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock

Wazup Running Club at The Station in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

The unlikely reinvention of Hong Kong’s cafe scene

Caprice Bar in Hong Kong’s Four Seasons is known for its innovative take on cocktails. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography

Drink in Focus: ‘Water’ at Caprice Bar at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

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Funkytown, a cocktail bar in Bangkok, offers non-alcoholic versions of its signature cocktails, including Green Curry. Photo: Funkytown
Food and Drinks

Party sober? Asia’s bars and drink giants shift gears as Gen Z ditch alcohol

As young Asians turn more health-conscious and watch their spending, drinks giants and bars are planning more low- and no-alcohol options.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 27 to March 1

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Drink in Focus: ‘Water’ at Caprice Bar at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 26-28

Celebrate mixology, from Central’s Gossip to Galaxy Macau’s Capella and Long Bar, with themed cocktails, whisky flights and guest bartenders.

Pony & Plume, at Capella at Galaxy Macau, boasts a massive collection of over 650 individual and curated whiskies. Photo: Handout
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 20 to 22

Enjoy music and markets in West Kowloon, take your pet to a cafe in Sheung Wan, attend a women-only workout in Quarry Bay and more.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 21-23

We’ve got you covered for drinks as we welcome the Year of the Horse, from Chinese New Year cocktails to a special night at Qura with Singapore’s Side Door.

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This TCM bar in China makes customers drinks based on its doctor’s diagnoses

Shanghai bar Niang Qing is one of many new traditional Chinese medicine bars that offer bespoke wellness to China’s stressed-out youth.

A bartender prepares shots at Niang Qing, a “TCM bar” in Shanghai, China. Similar bars based on traditional Chinese medicine have popped up in cities across China, epitomising what the country’s stressed-out, time-poor youth refer to as “punk wellness”, or “wrecking yourself while saving yourself”. Photo: AFP
Food and Drinks

10 great Lunar New Year food and drink gifts available in Hong Kong

From chic hampers with abalone and nuts to local gin, these gifts are great for giving – and sharing – to ring in the Year of the Horse 2026.

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Drink in Focus: Off Wave at Dead Poets

The shochu-based cocktail, part of the bar’s Liquid Gallery menu, is inspired by Hokusai’s art and blends Japanese flavours.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

From Flower Years’ Drunk in Love to Mostly Harmless’ Mardi Gras, there are parties for romantics and rebels this Valentine’s weekend.

From celebrating love to leaving the past behind, Hong Kong’s bars have you covered this Valentine’s weekend. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Unsung Eats: 5 best places to eat – and drink – in Singapore

Discover the city’s hidden culinary gems ensconced in side-street speakeasies, revamped warehouses and intimate supper clubs.

Singapore’s restaurants and bars, like Barely Aged, offer a smorgasbord of gastronomical adventures. Photo: Handout
Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, February 8-14

Try two new menus at Michelin-starred Hansik Goo, combine alcohol and tattoos at Cordis Hotel’s Alibi bar, or enjoy retro-futuristic neon art at Tai Kwun.

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Serious about wine? New Hong Kong wine bar focuses on true connoisseurs

Champion sommelier Mason Ng designed his Maison Natsukashii to attract wine fanatics like himself who ‘know what they want’.

Food and Drinks

‘Martini craze’ sweeps New York and London as bars shake up classic cocktail

James Bond’s favourite drink is finding fans and driving profits in the US and UK as bartenders serve twists with carrot wine and coriander.

Martinis at the Martini Bar at Hawksmoor St Pancras, in London. Photo: Instagram/hawksmoormartinibar
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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 5-7

Kick off this month with painter-themed drinks at Dead Poets, guest shifts that bring Asian-inspired cocktails to The Opposites, and Italian flavours to Avoca.

The Scream from Dead Poets’ Liquid Gallery v4: Dead Painters menu in Hong Kong, inspired by the Edvard Munch artwork of the same name. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

11 new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in February 2026

New openings include the new branch of a Korean pizza chain, a Japanese gelato joint, a borsch specialist and two French restaurants.

China consumption

How changing tastes in China are hitting Australia’s wine exports

Younger consumers’ preference for healthier, low-alcohol beverages has contributed to shrinking of Chinese market.

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Drink in Focus: Durian’s Consent at Peridot

Peridot concocts what might be Hong Kong’s boldest cocktail, which delicately blends the divisive fruit’s creamy flavours with a shochu-rum fusion.

Peridot’s Durian’s Consent cocktail in the making. Photo: Alexander Mak
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 29-31

This weekend, enjoy Glass Gardener’s guest shift at Locale18, intriguing new cocktails at The Savoury Project, and a Korean fiesta at The Green Door.

Food and Drinks

‘Everything was a gamble’: Hong Kong gin makers on distilling their dream

Nicholas Law and Jeremy Li conceived NIP Distilling in 2017. Now their gin is winning international awards and showing ‘what Hong Kong is’.

Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: the many layers of Macau

This issue explores the profiles, places and passions that capture Macau’s past and present – from off-duty chefs to indefatigable storytellers.

The Ruins of Saint Paul’s in Macau feature on the cover of the January 25 print edition of PostMag. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Your Perfect Week

The best things to do in Hong Kong, January 25-31

Enjoy new media art courtesy of Austria’s Ars Electronica, a sensory 8-drink menu at Quinary, and an exhibition celebrating time from Van Cleef & Arpels.

Lau Wai, one of the artists featured in the “Pluriversal Futures” exhibition, with their 2024 artwork The Cast of the Invisible. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Food and Drinks

How Macau went from cocktail desert to drinks-world darling

Will the gambling mecca’s bar scene finally hit its stride in 2026? The city’s leading bartenders speak out.

Locals' Guide

Insider’s guide to Bengaluru: from flower markets to late-night bars

Lush parks, buzzing markets and a thriving music scene define the Silicon Valley of India.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for January 22-24

It’s guest shifts galore as The Aubrey and Lobster Bar – and Macau’s Wing Lei Bar – host top mixologists from across Asia.

A cosy corner at The Aubrey in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Wellness

The huge benefits of quitting alcohol, from weight loss to slowing ageing

Ex-drinkers and sobriety experts explain how life is better and healthier without drinking as many attempt the same during Dry January.

Jodi Clark, seen in January 2023 and this month, who now runs online groups, challenges and retreats for women, has lost 38kg (84lb) since she stopped drinking more than 3 years ago. Photo: Jodi Clark
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Drink in focus: Egg Waffle cocktail at Avoca

Avoca at Mondrian Hong Kong renders the classic snack in cocktail form with Michter’s whiskey, Advocaat and more.

Food and Drinks

Hong Kong’s bar scene was extra volatile last year – what’s in store for 2026?

From Bar Leone, to Quinary and Draft Land, the city’s bar scene is increasingly oriented towards simplicity, accessibility and community.

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