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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Daulat ki chaat, a regional variation of makhan malai, at Indian Accent. Chefs are recreating this dish with modern equipment, extending the seasonal street food’s availability throughout the year. Photo: Handout

What is makhan malai, Lucknow’s favourite winter street food?

Enjoy a selection of exciting new goodies at LMO Freshly Baked in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 30-February 1

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

Drink in Focus: Durian’s Consent at Peridot

Father and son team Chui Wai-kwan and Daniel Chui Tak-yiu at their restaurant Seventh Son in Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Meeting father and son at Hong Kong’s legendary Seventh Son restaurant

A take on the traditional Central Asian dining space, known as dastarkhan, at Yurt in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

First Look: Yurt, Hong Kong’s ‘first modern Central Asian restaurant’

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Dishes from Ask for Alonzo’s Valentine’s Day menu. Hong Kong has a range of romantic dining spots for Valentine’s Day 2026, from Michelin-starred artistry to bistro feasts. Photo: Ask for Alonzo
Valentine's Day

10 romantic Hong Kong restaurants for the perfect Valentine’s Day dinner

From Michelin-starred dining to vibey Spanish tapas and Italian fare, here are some of the best restaurants to visit this Valentine’s Day.

Hong Kong

2016 trends from Pokemon Go to poke bowls amid viral internet nostalgia

Japan

Japanese start-up puts elderly women at heart of local economy

So you bought capers. Here’s what to do with them

The bold, tangy magic of capers and caper berries helps elevate dishes such as pasta puttanesca, salsa verde and beurre noisette.

Pasta puttanesca with tomato sauce, anchovies, chilli, olives and capers. Photo: Shutterstock
Where to eat in Hong Kong

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.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, January 30-February 1

Indulge in an excess of tea, browse Hong Kong’s independent fashion brands, immerse yourself in Central Asian culture and more this weekend.

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SCMP Exclusives

Exclusive | Hong Kong chef wins Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants’ first Champions of Change Award

Sustainability pioneer Peggy Chan talks about her mission and what winning the Champions of Change award means for her and the industry.

The Hong Kong-born chef and sustainable dining advocate talks about how we can change our food production systems for the better if we work together. Photo: Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026
Hong Kong society

As Hong Kong’s Kam Shing Restaurant shuts down, owner seeks new challenge

Second-generation boss of 34-year-old eatery says closure not due to financial strain but that he wants to join and improve food supply sector.

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Hong Kong

Mouthing Off | Sammy’s Kitchen is closing – again. Maybe this time it should actually do it?

Perhaps now the restaurant, like its famous neon sign has already done, should retire to a better place in our collective cultural memory.

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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
Asian diaspora

Hollywood Boulevard gets a new star, and it’s a bubble tea giant from China

With its affordable soft serve and boba, bubble tea megachain Mixue has opened its first US store opposite Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

Bubble teas from Mixue. Photo: Instagram
100 Top Tables

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.

Best restaurants in Hong Kong

Wellness expert’s go-tos for New York-style pizza, sushi and more in Hong Kong

Florence Tsai reveals her favourite Hong Kong restaurants for meals including classic dim sum, New York-style pizzas and late-night sushi.

Maxim’s

Video | Customer finds tooth in loaf of bread

A customer posted the discovery on social media and filed a complaint with the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.

A customer posted the discovery on social media and filed a complaint with the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
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Switzerland

How to cook Michelin-star-worthy food at home? 2 top chefs share tips

Marco Campanella of 2-Michelin-star La Brezza and Green Star winner Piero Roncoroni advise on everything from picking produce to plating.

Up-and-coming Swiss chefs Marco Campanella and Piero Roncoroni say slow roasting, braising and gentle sautéing are the best way to bring out the flavours of ingredients. Photo: Shutterstock
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for January 30-February 1

Take a long lunch at Associazione Chianti, head to The Hari for a Japanese brunch, and pick up staples at Mandarin Oriental’s LMO Freshly Baked.

Wellness

‘I fought back’: how Heather Mills took control of her health via her diet

Paul McCartney’s ex-wife Heather Mills reveals how a plant-based diet and later focus on low-fodmap foods have had huge impacts on her life.

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New Openings

Hong Kong’s hottest new openings, from matcha lattes to Japanese dipping noodles

Cult Korean brand Hetras and Japanese noodle shop Tsukemen Gyorai open their first Hong Kong outposts, and Matchali adds another location.

The soft boiled egg and avocado toast from Matchali. Photo: courtesy Matchali
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What is makhan malai, Lucknow’s favourite winter street food?

Known by many different names across northern India, makhan malai is made from hand-churning milk and cream into an airy froth.

Wine and Spirits

‘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’.

Tourism

Taste Sweden’s delicious ‘blue food’ fresh from the sea on boat tours

From oysters and mussels to superfood seaweed, Sweden’s west coast is a treasure trove of ‘blue food’ – sustainable aquatic produce.

FILED - Blue, or aquatic, foods hold support diets that are healthy, sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient. Here, Per Karlsson prepares to serve up Swedish treats from the sea. Photo: Sabine Glaubitz/dpa-tmn - ATTENTION: editorial use only in connection with the aforementioned text
IPO

Chinese drinks maker Eastroc’s US$1.3 billion Hong Kong IPO gives it wings

Shanghai-listed firm is selling 40.9 million shares for HK$248 each, which would give it a market cap of about US$21 billion.

China’s Eastroc Beverage makes an alternative to Red Bull on the mainland. Photo: Handout
Wellness

Are Prenetics and David Beckham remaking the supplements game with IM8?

Developed by Hong Kong’s Prenetics and the former footballer, IM8 emphasises transparency and third-party testing with its 92‑ingredient formula.

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.

European travel

Craft beers, dim sum, hotpot and more: a culinary trip through Brussels

From craft beers to Chinese hotpot, Brussels’ vibrant food scene blends Belgian tradition and global flavours in unexpected ways.

Da Long Yi is a well-established hotpot franchise from Chengdu, and now has hundreds of locations globally in major cities such as London, New York, Sydney – and Belgium. Photo: Charmaine Mok
Heineken

How the ‘Guinness effect’ is brewing success for other stouts and porters

Guinness continues to grow in popularity, boosted by TikTok and Netflix’s House of Guinness. Now other dark beers are riding on its success.

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Boosted by the popularity of Guinness, and the Netflix series “House of Guinness”, other stouts and porters are seeing increased sales in the UK. Photo: Shutterstock
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.

Asian diaspora

Famous San Francisco Chinatown restaurant reveals its recipes in new cookbook

Kathy and Peter Fang’s cookbook is full of recipes of House of Nanking’s most popular dishes and others from Kathy’s childhood.

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