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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Don Pedro is a new 35-seat candlelit steakhouse and wine bar in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 29-31

Bar Tincture opened on the 23rd floor of Foco in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 29-31

Culinary creativity at Fumée in Shenzhen. Photo: Handout

3 young chefs helping to define Shenzhen’s new fine dining wave

Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud in Hong Kong. Photos: Jocelyn Tam

Dish in Focus: Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud

Shenzhen, as seen from MO Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen. Photo: Handout

Inside Shenzhen’s evolving culinary scene

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Haagen-Dazs currently operates nearly 200 stores in mainland China. Photo: Handout
China’s private sector

The big scoop: lemon tea chain to revamp Haagen-Dazs’ struggling China business

General Mills offloads ice cream brand’s China stores, as foreign businesses revamp models amid heated domestic competition.

Social media

This Edinburgh Chinese takeaway is ‘dying’. Meet the daughter out to save it

Hong Kong

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

K-pop, Mandopop, other Asian pop

Oreo and BTS launch purple cookies in new K-pop collaboration

Oreo spent two years developing the BTS cookies, which have centres that taste like hotteok, a popular Korean street food pancake.

The new Oreo and BTS collaboration cookies will go on sale on June 1 online and on June 8 in stores in 80 markets around the world. Photo: AP
Hong Kong

Hong Kong-style cha chaan teng cafes thrive globally as Gen-Z embraces nostalgic dining

Cha chaan teng were built on reinvention and resourcefulness. Now, as a new generation claims them for the digital age, PostMag finds everyone hungry for more.

Penfolds returns to France

An Australian wine icon returns to France

Penfolds’ growing portfolio in France reflects a philosophy of innovation and uncompromising quality, anchored by its long-standing tradition of experimentation and pushing boundaries.

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Mainland China

Why Korean rice wine could be the next big drink in Hong Kong and mainland China

There’s a ‘big gap’ in the market for the ancient tipple, one bar owner says, as more restaurants add Korean rice wines to their menus.

Sky Oh, the founder of Hong Kong-based Korean alcohol distributor Fermentation Heaven, is surrounded by a variety of Korean drinks, including Korean rice wine. Her company recently provided Korean rice wines for an event at Shenzhen’s Otheroof. Photo: Sky Oh
Hong Kong dining & recommendations

15 new Hong Kong restaurants to try in June 2026, from pizza to ramen

New openings include a Neapolitan pizzeria, a Tokyo ramen chain’s outpost, an Argentinian steakhouse and a modern Chinese dessert bar.

Taiwan

Discover Tainan’s culinary renaissance at Yudao

Yudao in Tainan: chef Nick Yang’s ‘New Taiwanese’ fine-dining restaurant celebrates local produce, indigenous heritage, Dutch-Japanese history and sunset-soaked island serenity.

Hong Kong

This legendary Chinese snake soup was all but lost. How 2 chefs are reviving it

Once the centrepiece of political and business gatherings, Taishi five-snake soup is making a return in a form more suited to the modern era.

A complex soup of wu yu dan, or cuttlefish “roe”, created by chefs Li Chi-wai and Dong Zhenxiang that harkens back to the legendary Taishi five-snake soup that Dong once tried. Photo: Rosewood Hong Kong
100 Top Tables

Dish in Focus: Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud

Terrace Boulud’s Aurélie Altemaire turns a Lyonnais pâté en croûte into a 4-day exercise that rewards time, precision and a chef’s instinct for balance.

Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud in Hong Kong. Photos: Jocelyn Tam
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, May 29-31

See Mads Mikkelsen and other stars at Hong Kong Comic Con 2026, indulge in a two-day wellness retreat, watch top cabaret shows and more.

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Macau

On the Menu | French dining but not as we know it at Vicky Cheng’s Estuary in Macau

Vicky Cheng blends healing ingredients with French finesse and Asian touches at his new restaurant Estuary at Macau’s Capella hotel.

100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 29-31

Escape the heat at new steakhouse Don Pedro, enjoy an Italian brunch at LucAle, or indulge in a leisurely afternoon tea at The Butterfly Room.

Don Pedro is a new 35-seat candlelit steakhouse and wine bar in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 29-31

Tipples to tease your tongue, from Bar Tincture’s bespoke cocktails to Jean-Pierre’s French bistro flair and Monkey Shoulder’s ode to whisky.

Bar Tincture opened on the 23rd floor of Foco in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong

Where to go for ‘real’ Italian, ‘funky’ Japanese in Hong Kong? This CEO knows

Pak-man Lee of Hong Kong design shop Nuovo shares where he enjoys Japanese bites, real Italian dishes and Thai food on the beach.

Hong Kong

95-year-old dim sum chef launches menu of forgotten items in Hong Kong

Foo Shing looks back on an astonishing life as he opens up about items featured in Tim Ho Wan’s nostalgic dim sum series.

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China’s private sector

A new battlefront for KFC and its Chinese rivals: the lighter meal

Big-name fast-food chains are seeking to capitalise on a surge in demand in China for lighter meals.

A drink and several meals from KPRO’s menu. Photo: Handout
Books and literature

Hong Kong author Kit Fan on ‘reverse migration’, identity and his new novel

The UK-based writer, whose Goodbye Chinatown follows a food-centric family between Hong Kong and London, talks about how places change people.

Where to eat in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s curious history of Swiss restaurants, and 2 that have endured

Chesa at The Peninsula and The Swiss Chalet have been providing Hong Kong’s fondue and raclette fix for decades, but offer much more too.

Japan

Founder of Japan’s 7-Eleven chain Toshifumi Suzuki dies aged 93

The ‘father of the convenience store’ was the first to come up with the idea of selling onigiri at 7-Eleven outlets.

Toshifumi Suzuki, former president of 7-Eleven, reacts during an interview in Tokyo on June 8, 2023. Photo: Kyodo/AP
Hong Kong transport

What to eat and buy at Hong Kong airport’s revamped Terminal 2

Passengers and visitors will find 25 shopping and dining options, including McDonald’s, Nap Tea and Imperial Patisserie.

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The revamped Terminal 2 at Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: Edmond So
Chinese cuisine

A Vietnamese-American’s quest to make the perfect Peking duck

Radiologist Hong Pham’s dedication to making roast duck has seen him start his own catering business and even cook the bird at weddings.

Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: a nostalgic celebration of food, glorious food

Discover how food, nostalgia and identity intertwine across Hong Kong’s cha chaan teng, Michelin kitchens and Tainan’s indigenous dishes – plus Patti LuPone’s Hong Kong debut.

Art

How Mr Mahjong is telling Hong Kong stories through his outdoor exhibition

Daniel Wu, a self-professed terrible mahjong player, takes pieces from the traditional tile-based game and carves ‘almost anything’ on them.

Daniel Wu, aka Mr Mahjong, is a Hong Kong-based contemporary artist and designer focused on traditional mahjong culture. His first outdoor “exhibition” takes over a street in Hong Kong. Photo: Sun Yeung
Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, May 24–30

Enjoy a seasonal mango menu at Gaylord Indian Restaurant, try The Green Door’s new drinks, be dazzled by Chow Tai Fook’s Gold Ginkgo Tree and enjoy art with a side of charity on Shin Hing Street.

The Green Door's Coco cocktail mixes gin and rum with mushroom, elderflower and brine. Photo: courtesy The Green Door
100 Top Tables

Inside Shenzhen’s evolving culinary scene

Once infamous as a hub for counterfeit goods and cheap spa treatments, China’s Silicon Valley has matured into a gastronomic destination.

Chinese culture

Origin of Hong Kong’s ‘peace buns’, Cheung Chau Bun Festival’s iconic snack

‘Ping on bao’ are both happily eaten and the focus of the festival’s famous bun scrambling competition. One baker explains how he makes them.

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