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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
A special dinner at Tosca di Angelo in Hong Kong, a collaboration with jewellery brand Damiani. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 26-29

The Baker & the Bottleman’s hot cross doughnuts this Easter. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong food guide for Easter weekend

Crispy codfish balls at Mesa by José Avillez, where the menu is a product of what the kitchen grows itself. Photo: Handout

Macau’s culinary festival blends luxury dining with sustainability

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Dark chocolate covered stuffed medjool dates at Migas Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Dish in Focus: Dark chocolate covered Medjool dates at Migas Hong Kong

Indigenous fats like shea butter provide livelihoods for rural women producers in Africa, but are often unknown to or dismissed by consumers. Photo: Shutterstock

Young chefs are turning food traditions into tools for global change

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Rocky Xu, founder of Rocky’s Matcha, says his brand is about “tradition and craft” rather than chasing trends. Photo: Rocky Xu
Asian diaspora

A shaman told him to quit coffee. Now he runs a successful matcha brand

Rocky Xu, who started Rocky’s Matcha in 2022, focuses on selling quality, authentic Japanese tea rather than trying to be a viral sensation.

Hong Kong economy

Looking for Easter holiday inspiration? Here’s what’s happening in Hong Kong

What to do in Hong Kong

Easter 2026 food highlights in Hong Kong, from brunches to hot cross doughnuts

Social media

On the Menu | Making butter while you run? Why social media is churning with excitement

Churning and burning at the same time has gone viral on social media, even if it might not work so well in hot and humid Hong Kong.

Content creator Libby Claire went viral for her video showing how to churn butter in a running vest while tackling a trail. Photo: Instagram/lib_claire
Asian diaspora

The Hong Kong chef giving remote Canadian town a taste of the city

Unique Chan’s Hong Kong-style bakery attracts many non-Chinese customers curious to discover dishes like pineapple buns and egg tarts.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Easter weekend

Asia’s 50 Best Bars No 22 winner St Regis Bar Jakarta is heading to the city, while cocktail creations made for the warmer weather await.

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Coffee

5 new cafes and coffee shops to try in Hong Kong in April 2026

From fruit-flavoured brews to vinyl background music and HK$30 lattes, here are 5 new coffee shops worth a visit in Hong Kong in April.

Online shop NovemberSix Bakery has launched its first cafe space, Yelo Cake Coffee, serving coffee in addition to its signature cakes. Photo: Instagram/yelocakecoffee.hk
South Korea

No oil for BBQ: South Korean restaurants gasp for help amid fuel crisis

Prices for ingredients and packaging have risen by as much as 30 per cent since the start of the Iran war.

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What to do in Hong Kong

‘Delicious’ fried rice, ‘great’ Italian: a Briton’s Hong Kong food picks

Architect firm boss Richard Wood reveals where he goes for local Hong Kong food as well as his Italian, Japanese and French go-tos.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong food guide for Easter weekend

Indulge in The Ritz-Carlton’s four-hands Valrhona afternoon tea set, The Mira’s six-course brunch featuring unlimited carvings, and a sourdough take on the classic festive hot cross bun.

The Baker & the Bottleman’s hot cross doughnuts this Easter. Photo: Handout
Chinese cuisine

Where does ma lai go come from and why is the classic dim sum dish so special?

Also known as Chinese steamed cake and Malay sponge cake, ma lai go represents Hong Kong culture with its Western and Eastern influences.

Ma lai go, also known as Chinese steamed cake, is a Hong Kong dim sum staple that has roots in British Malaya. Photo: SCMP

Video | Cow dung hotpot, anyone?

The Guizhou dish is prized for its cooling and digestive properties, smells better than it sounds, and tastes like bitter beef broth.

100 Top Tables: Cities of Gastronomy

Macau’s culinary festival blends luxury dining with sustainability

Restaurants across the Greater Bay Area are underlining their commitment to the environment by showcasing zero-waste kitchens, hyperlocal seafood and organic ingredients.

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Macau Government Tourism Office
100 Top Tables: Cities of Gastronomy

Quanzhou offers a taste of the Maritime Silk Road

Quanzhou’s unique cuisine – a branch of Minnan cooking – reflects a thousand years of global maritime fusion.

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Macau Government Tourism Office
Quanzhou was a global maritime trade centre in the Song and Yuan dynasties. In 2025, Unesco awarded it the title Creative City of Gastronomy. Photo: Xinhua
China’s private sector

Chinese coffee brands need more than low prices to compete globally: analysts

Luckin, Lucky Cup, Cotti and Nowwa are expanding quickly overseas, but analysts warn success depends on consumer experience and quality.

A Luckin Coffee outlet in Manhattan, New York. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Malaysia

Malaysian traders warn of 50% food price surge amid energy shock

Surge in fuel prices threatens to wipe out any narrow margins and push the cost of doing business higher, trade associations say.

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Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong restaurateurs revamp traditional dining as closures reshape industry

Shifting dining habits and cross-border competition are forcing legacy brands like Maxim’s to reinvent themselves to stay relevant.

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The Philippines

Joy in a bag: for overseas Filipinos, Jollibee is a taste of home

Forget KFC. For Filipinos abroad, Jollibee serves up cultural pride with a side of nostalgia – and the best fried chicken in America.

Jollibee employees attend to customers at an outlet in Manila in 2015. Photo: AFP
Chinese culture

What China’s cow dung hotpot is really made of – and it’s not what you think

The dish from Guizhou is prized for its cooling and digestive properties, smells better than it sounds, and tastes like bitter beef broth.

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Language Matters

Language Matters | Daan tat, ice kachang: how Asian foods are making their way into global English

The latest updates to the Oxford English Dictionary reflect the strong influence Asian cuisines have on the English language.

Crime

400,000 KitKat bars stolen, as thieves ‘make a break’ with 12 tonne shipment

The heist could cause a shortage of the chocolate snacks in Europe right before Easter, Nestlé warns.

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The stolen truck of KitKats had left central Italy and was making its way to Poland, with a plan to distribute the bars in countries along the way. Photo illustration: AFP
Wine and Spirits

Can wine from ‘Bordeaux of China’ rival French bottles?

Emmanuel Macron ‘loved’ it. Now red wine from Ningxia, in northern China, is finding fans around the world while remaining ‘uniquely Chinese’.

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A worker harvests grapes for red wine at Xige Estate. Photo: Xige Estate
Luxury Hotels

Review | Inside Mondrian Gold Coast, the new luxury hotel in Australia

We check into the Mondrian Gold Coast, the first venture in Australia by the boutique brand, established by legendary hotelier and Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager.

What to do in Hong Kong

10 new Hong Kong restaurants to try in April 2026, and a bonus one in Macau

Hong Kong diners can look forward to ramen, soba, Thai noodles, waffles and a high-end Tokyo sushi restaurant opening in Macau.

100 Top Tables

Drink in Focus: Tropical Spicy Brew at Friday After Class

Friday After Class, one of the latest additions to buzzing Peel Street, is launching a new cocktail menu that features fruity, tropical creations that evoke summer holidays.

The Tropical Spicy Brew at Friday After Class in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Bangkok

Now you don’t have to go to Bangkok for a boat noodle fix. ThongSmith is here

ThongSmith has more than 25 locations in Bangkok. Luckily for Hong Kong’s Thai aficionados, it has opened its first overseas outlet here.

Bangkok-based popular Thai boat noodle restaurant chain ThongSmith has opened its first overseas location in Hong Kong. Photo: ThongSmith
Icons and Influencers

Style according to … Pearl Lam, the Hong Kong-born founder of Pearl Lam Projects

The gallerist and curator shares some of her favourite things, from the paintings of Kerry James Marshall to the energy of Shanghai’s Xiangyang Park.

South Korea

‘I just order cola’: South Korea’s drying booze culture leaves bars parched

‘Only one in five tables order alcohol. A customer ordering alcohol heavily is like winning a lottery,’ a gastropub owner says.

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