Things To Do in Hong Kong (and a Few Around Asia!)
Looking for things to fill up your already bursting calendar? Here are more than 45 events to keep you occupied until the end of January.
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Get ready for a season full of mega concerts, glorious food fairs, shopping bazaars, farmers’ markets, film festivals, international sporting matches and a whole lot more as we enter one of the busiest periods of the year. Whether you’re a culture vulture or a gluttonous gourmand, you’ll find something in the lineup that you won’t want to miss.
Fall Feasts
‘Tis the season for foodies and gourmands as a slew of culinary events are offered throughout the next few months.
Eat, Drink and Be Merry
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November is Wine & Dine Month in Hong Kong, and it kicks off with a big Hong Kong Tourism Board-organized festival from November 1 to 4. Sample wines, taste award-winning savories and desserts from around the world, and buy culinary supplies and kitchen accessories from 311 booths set up along the West Kowloon waterfront. The four-day festival attracted over 100,000 visitors last year—it’s time to embrace the wisdom of the crowd. As for the rest of the month, it’s chock-full of foodie-related events, including the Wan Chai Queen’s Road East Festival (November 3-4, 10-11), the Lan Kwai Fong Carnival (November 17-18), the Stanley
Plaza World of Food and Music (November 24-25) and the Hong Kong Festival of Restaurants (November 1-25). Festival of Restaurants is equivalent to Restaurant Week in other parts of the world; 50 eateries around the city will be offering up special, discounted menus at prices from $100 to $800 a pop. See www.festivalofrestaurants.hk for more info.Throughout November. www.discoverhongkong.com/wineanddine.
It’s All Game
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Dishes comprising wild catch are the hot items of the season. Try some deer ragout, pasta with duck sauce, Tuscan wild boar and even pigeon at DiVino Wine Bar & Restaurant, where chef Michele Senigaglia has created a whole feast of exotic treats. Or dig into pheasant, stuffed quail, venison and rabbits at Bloom, where their special game menu will be on offer until mid-November. Alternatively, check into Nordic specialist FINDS, whose new autumn menu includes dishes such as venison tenderloin and scrumptious duck meatballs.
DiVino game menu, until November 29. 73 Wyndham St., Central, 2167-8883.
