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  • Chef Alain Ducasse, whose Hong Kong restaurant Rech closed during the Covid-19 pandemic, has no plans to reopen in the city – but ‘never say never’
  • As he aims for a third Michelin star for his restaurant Alain Ducasse at Morpheus in Macau, he talks about converting diners to plant-based menus ‘step by step’

In Argentina no industry can escape its high inflation, but in Buenos Aires cocktail bars are overcoming supply problems by using alternative local ingredients to create new cocktails and vermouths.

Are you guilty of stress eating or do you eat because you are hungry? There’s an easy way to find out, say scientists in Hong Kong. Their goal? To show the benefits of mindful eating. and how to do it.

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The Polish fashion designer loves vintage Rolexes, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the Ritz Paris and travelling to the Maldives, while at home she eats pierogi and enjoys exploring her home city of Warsaw

The Hong Kong-based executive producer of musical The Sound Of Music shares her favourite restaurants, including one where she has had ‘many happy dim sum visits’ to a place that ‘never disappoints’.

The Budweiser Budvar brewery, in the Czech Republic, is in a long-running trademark battle with the maker of the US beer of the same name. That’s barely mentioned, though, on a tour of the brewery.

Centre for Food Safety this month ordered four pre-packaged spice mix products from India to be recalled after it found the pesticide ethylene oxide in samples.

A run of Shakespeare’s King Lear inspired a restaurant in the National Theatre of Korea to create a meal with dishes symbolising the main characters. The play has ended, but the menu is still going.

Toranomon is one of Tokyo’s up-and-coming neighbourhoods, with plenty of places to eat and drink as well as 5-star views of Tokyo Tower. We look at the best options for accommodation and entertainment.

South Korean chef Kim Do-yun has a passion for noodles, and wants to share it with others. He has made creating varieties free from additives, and that preserve a natural fragrance, his mission.

Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown has been transformed into a buzzing neighbourhood full of new restaurants, shops and bars that manages to retain its heritage. Here’s what to eat, drink and do there.

Nashville, Tennessee, famous for music, is making a name for itself among foodies. We try three of its best restaurants – Chauhan Ale and Masala House, XiaoBao, and Aubrey.

A testament to the Chinese love of clever wordplay, Chinese restaurants in Britain often have witty or pun-tastic Chinese names that are like encoded in-jokes for the diaspora.

Having fled to Hong Kong from Vietnam in the 1970s, Berlin-based chef The Duc Ngo has gone on to redefine Asian fusion cuisine in restaurants in Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany.

Chubby Papa’s Deli in Hong Kong’s Kennedy Town specialises in Philly cheesesteak sandwiches – but if you want one, get there quick, because the deli will close on April 28 after two years in business.

Full of health benefits, spinach is an excellent source of vitamins A, C, B9 and K, and contains more magnesium, potassium and iron than broccoli, lettuce or cabbage.

Manhattan in New York isn’t traditionally known for Chinese soup dumplings but YouTube and TikTok are driving a xiaolongbao trend that sees more restaurants getting creative with the dim sum classic.

Decaffeinated coffee is growing in quality and popularity as new techniques to remove caffeine from beans preserve flavour and add complexities, and people look for their ‘drugs without their drugs’.

Stefan Gross, the managing director of food and wine importer Blue Danube Gourmet, reveals where he likes to eat in Hong Kong, from where to get ‘the city’s best fish and chips’ to ‘real comfort food’.

With themes from colonial opium dens to 1970s hip-hop to post-World War II, these six Singapore speakeasies are some of the best hidden bars in the Lion City – and here’s how to find them.

Having blazed a trail across China, chef Frank Xu left for Europe, where he gives guests at Switzerland’s only Michelin-star Chinese restaurant, Le Tsé Fung, an authentic taste of his homeland.

Chinese tea shop giant Sichuan Baicha Baidao Industrial aims to raise HK$2.5 billion (US$330 million) in a Hong Kong initial public offering, set to be the city’s largest new-share sale of the year, regulatory filings show.

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Singapore’s food safety watchdog says a product marketed as confectionery with claims of male sexual-enhancement effects contained a potent prescription medicine used to treat erectile dysfunction.

Delhi is a city of endless squabbles – over who makes the best version of the Indian capital’s signature dish. We look at some of the restaurants vying for butter chicken supremacy, and how to make it best.

As of April, Snyder has a US$6.7 billion net worth – she started out working kitchen shifts at the chain as a teen because she didn’t want ‘special treatment’