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Chocolate prices look set to rise after years of poor harvests of key ingredient cocoa, which pushed up its price. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

Why your Easter eggs and Eid ul-Fitr treats will cost more in 2025

Years of poor harvests have led to ‘unprecedented cocoa cost inflation’, and 2024’s sugar crop was hit too. Better buy soon for Easter, Eid.

Wellness

Need a reason to eat fibre? It ‘has anticancer effects’, study finds

Food and Drinks

Climate change could deprive Japanese diners of a favourite fish

Food and Drinks

Peanut butter and apple? How about chilli paste? Korea goes nuts for spread

South Korea has fallen for peanut butter, having it on apples, in smoothies and coffee and even adding it to chilli paste and soybean paste.

Peanut butter has exploded in popularity in South Korea. Photo: Shutterstock
Peanut butter has exploded in popularity in South Korea. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

Mingles becomes only three-Michelin-star restaurant in South Korea

Chef Kang Min-goo is emotional as his modern Korean restaurant achieves the ultimate accolade in the Michelin Guide Seoul & Busan 2025.

Food and Drinks

9 restaurants and a coffee shop in Hong Kong to try in March 2025

New restaurants serving Chinese, Indian, Thai, Italian, Spanish, French and Vietnamese food, and a coffee shop, are worth a look.

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Hong Kong Italian chef’s go-to places for noodles, Thai food, yakiniku

Sicilian-born Giuseppe De Vuono gives a Thai place ‘a 100 score every time’ and reveals his spots to eat fishball and beef brisket noodles.

Leek ox tongue. Photo: Yakiniku Horumon Matchan
Leek ox tongue. Photo: Yakiniku Horumon Matchan
Food and Drinks

Tea hand-picked for drinking and eating in Sri Lanka’s Golden Valley

A lot goes into a tea bag, from growing and picking the leaves to fermenting and blending them. Nowadays tea also turns up on diners’ plates.

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Travel Destinations

Netflix Bites brings tastes of Stranger Things and more to Las Vegas

The restaurant at MGM Grand features food and images from Squid Game to One Piece to offer guests new ways of experiencing favourite series.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend Feb 28-Mar 2

The stars are aligned for a super weekend of outdoor and indoor fun. Get up close with wildlife, take your dog for brunch or hit the cinema.

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Take a mindful stroll amid tea plants before enjoying a tea tasting (above) at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden in Hong Kong this weekend, just one of many activities it is putting on in its family-friendly festival on March 1 and 2, 2025. Photo: KFBG
Food and Drinks

Wines from Ningxia, China get perfect food pairings at Hong Kong dinner

Chardonnay with chicken skin, Marselan with wagyu – how Ningxia’s best wines go with food is focus of event celebrating rising wine region.

Fei Tswei Reserve Chardonnay 2019. Photo: 818 The Seafood
Fei Tswei Reserve Chardonnay 2019. Photo: 818 The Seafood
Fame and celebrity

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, unveils new brand As Ever on Instagram

2 weeks before her Netflix show With Love, Meghan debuts, the Duchess explained the brand name change and how she’ll sell more than just jam.

Food and Drinks

Recipes and stories from Hong Kong refugees and asylum seekers

Cookbook Table of Two Cities shines a light on refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong with recipes contributed by them, and their stories.

Food and Drinks

Hong Kong truffle king’s meal raises US$950,000 for arthritis charity

Umberto Bombana of Hong Kong’s 8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo was in Vancouver in January wowing diners and raising money for Arthritis Society Canada.

Bombata’s short rib and beef tenderloin. Photo: Arthritis Society Canada
Food and Drinks

Why do women chefs rule the world on Tournament of Champions?

The winners of Tournament of Champions – all women so far – offer insights into what makes the Food Network show a culinary masterpiece.

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(From left) Brooke Williamson, Maneet Chauhan, Tiffani Faison and Mei Lin, all winners of Food Network’s Tournament of Champions. Photo: AP
(From left) Brooke Williamson, Maneet Chauhan, Tiffani Faison and Mei Lin, all winners of Food Network’s Tournament of Champions. Photo: AP
Wellness

Probiotic foods like miso, kimchi and kefir could ease anxiety, study finds

Gut germs can cause depression and anxiety, scientists say, but fermented foods and probiotics supplements could help improve mental health.

Food and Drinks

A Hong Kong-based chef’s go-to restaurants for steak and banh mi

Australian Brandon Tomkinson reveals his favourite places to eat in Hong Kong and the Michelin-star spot in Korea he is planning a return to.

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What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, Feb 21-23

Celebrate noodles and a restaurant’s anniversary, and see the latest in vegetarian and vegan food – or a film that dives into deaf culture.

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A dish from VEA’s 10th anniversary noodles celebration. Photo: Instagram/vea_hk
A dish from VEA’s 10th anniversary noodles celebration. Photo: Instagram/vea_hk
Food and Drinks

‘My beauty is my smile’ the message at cafes hiring acid attack victims

Sheroes Hangout cafes in India’s Uttar Pradesh state employ about 50 women victims of acid attacks, a common occurrence in Indian society.

Books and literature

Korean cuisine’s ‘unspoken language’ shared with world via picture books

Through colourful books filled with memories, authors and illustrators are showing the joy of Korean food to young readers everywhere.

Food and Drinks

South Korea’s snow crab festival draws the winter crowds

The Uljin Snow Crab Festival draws thousands of food lovers to the port town every winter. A new railway line makes getting there easier.

Cooked snow crabs in South Korea. Photo: Getty Images
Tourism

Wine tourism set to boom as Asian travellers sip from Italy to Ethiopia

Wine regions from Australia to Bulgaria to Moldova look set to benefit in the next decade as demand from Chinese and Indian tourists grows.

Tourists enjoy an aperitivo in Chianti, Italy. Photo: Getty Images
Tourists enjoy an aperitivo in Chianti, Italy. Photo: Getty Images
Food and Drinks

‘God’s butter’ and more from nose-to-tail champion St John in Hong Kong

Anthony Bourdain called St John in London ‘my favourite restaurant in the universe’. Now it’s coming to 181 at Fortnum & Mason Hong Kong.

Food and Drinks

Asia’s Best Female Chef 2025 on ‘weird’ plants and her sustainable vision

A Top Chef Thailand winner who opened 2-Michelin-star Baan Tepa, Tam Chudaree Debhakam, 32, talks sustainability and promoting Thai produce.

Wellness

‘I poisoned my children,’ says woman in court over PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

PFAS have caused an environmental disaster in Italy. Here’s why getting rid of the harmful substances found everywhere on Earth is difficult.

Elisabetta Donadello, an Italian mother whose land is contaminated with FPAS. Photo: AFP
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