https://www.scmp.com/rss/327298/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Noodle Lah! in Wan Chai offers Southeast Asian small bites and comfort food at reasonable prices and with a great view of Victoria Harbour through its floor-to-ceiling windows. In addition to regular tables, the restaurant also has a communal table in the centre of the room for solo diners. Set lunches, with choices of both rice and noodles, are offered daily from 11am to 3pm. For HK$82, you get a small appetiser, with choices that include chicken satay and Vietnamese net spring roll, a main... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2161540/noodle-lah-wan-chai-offers-lunch-sets-under-hk100-and-view?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2161540/noodle-lah-wan-chai-offers-lunch-sets-under-hk100-and-view?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:46:23 +0000 Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman has used a memoir to detail some of the faux pas of Donald Trump before and since he became US president. What she says about Trump, his vulgar jokes and use of offensive language paint an unflattering picture of a man she has known since the early days of his reality TV career on The Apprentice. Analysis: Trump risks blunder of ‘epic proportions’ by alienating Turkey But it’s not as if we haven’t seen that side of the man already. Never mind his... https://www.scmp.com/culture/article/2159772/five-trumps-stupidest-statements-amid-omarosa-meltdown-genital-grabbing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/article/2159772/five-trumps-stupidest-statements-amid-omarosa-meltdown-genital-grabbing?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:20:29 +0000 On a soccer pitch in a cavernous Hong Kong shopping centre, a group of men lace up their trainers and change into matching jerseys. They get to work stretching, running drills and having a kick-around. Soon their shouts and the smack of soccer balls hitting the walls around the pitch echo past shopfronts and the centre’s last remaining shoppers. Seyed Meeran Naina Marikar, 19, moves quickly across the pitch. He passes a ball back and forth with teammates, winds up for a kick, and watches as the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2159485/homeless-world-cup-soccer-tournament-beacon-hope-hongkongers-troubled?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2159485/homeless-world-cup-soccer-tournament-beacon-hope-hongkongers-troubled?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:45:27 +0000 Two 17th-century crowns and an orb belonging to the Swedish royal family were stolen from a cathedral outside Stockholm this week in a classic smash-and-grab robbery. As the manhunt continues for the thieves, who struck at noon, smashing a glass box containing the treasures and fleeing by speedboat to a lake dotted with hundreds of islands, we recall seven other daring jewel thefts that have made headlines down the years. 2018, Palazzo Ducale, Venice On January 4 thieves stole Indian jewels... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2158097/seven-daring-jewellery-thefts-match-swedish-crown-jewels?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2158097/seven-daring-jewellery-thefts-match-swedish-crown-jewels?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Aug 2018 04:00:56 +0000 Nguyen Van Son is accustomed to rising with the sun. When you’re homeless, he says, if the light doesn’t wake you, the heat will. But when the sun comes up over the footbridge Nguyen calls home on a recent morning, the 63-year-old hasn’t slept at all. Instead, he has spent the night breaking apart the makeshift hut where he has slept for the past 15 months in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district. Nguyen has removed the hut’s canopy of blankets, disassembled its bamboo frame, stripped the sheets... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2157230/homeless-hong-kong-cycle-despair-evicted-street-sleepers-few-places-go?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2157230/homeless-hong-kong-cycle-despair-evicted-street-sleepers-few-places-go?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Jul 2018 09:18:09 +0000 The Ivanka Trump fashion brand, whose shutdown was announced this week, has rarely been out of the news – especially after her father, Donald Trump, became president of the United States and she a White House aide. While she has not been involved in running the brand that bears her name since assuming her White House duties, it has suffered by association with her father’s divisive leadership. Chinese firms cut ties as Ivanka Trump brand falls apart at the seams The decision to bring the Trump... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2157038/ivanka-trump-fashion-five-missteps-road-oblivion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2157038/ivanka-trump-fashion-five-missteps-road-oblivion?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:45:15 +0000 Good food, friends, new experiences and interaction with local people: these are the ingredients for a worthwhile holiday, according to Bi Sheng, founder of a young Chinese online travel company called Bikego. And it would seem he is not alone – domestic Chinese tourists are no longer content to take the traditional tour bus approach, with 97 per cent of them choosing to travel independently in 2017, according to a report conducted by Mafengwo Travel Research Centre and China Tourism... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2155957/cycle-tour-start-ups-companion-service-independent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2155957/cycle-tour-start-ups-companion-service-independent?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:15:00 +0000 The first time Lo Kam-wing visited Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Racecourse, it was 1974 and he wasn’t supposed to be there. Then just 14 years old, Lo and a few schoolmates made their way to the racetrack one day after school to try their luck at getting around the 18-and-over admission policy. Maybe the ticket taker didn’t care. Maybe the policy just wasn’t as strict as they expected. Whatever the case, as soon as the boys were allowed in, they disappeared quickly into the crowd, hoping not to be... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2155438/hooked-hong-kong-horse-racing-men-and-women-who-live-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2155438/hooked-hong-kong-horse-racing-men-and-women-who-live-their?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:48:45 +0000 US reality TV star Kylie Jenner, 20, with an estimated net worth of US$900 million, this week became the youngest person on the Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women. And she’s expected to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever, a title held by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1987 at age 31 and by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2008, aged 23. Young and rich is something China also does well. We look at five people who have hit the Forbes China Rich List and find out... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2155205/after-kylie-jenner-makes-forbes-super-rich-list-here-are-five-people?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2155205/after-kylie-jenner-makes-forbes-super-rich-list-here-are-five-people?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:22:55 +0000 She maybe a household name in her native Taiwan as an actress, a model and fashion designer, but to the rest of the world, Hannah Quinlivan – or Kun Ling as she is known at home – is probably most famous for being that lucky bride of Mando-pop star Jay Chou in 2015. Scarlett Johansson’s casting as trans man draws ire of transgenders Now with a new film role – her Hollywood debut, no less, starring alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Neve Campbell in the Hong Kong-set action thriller... https://www.scmp.com/culture/article/2154480/jay-chou-assassins-bullet-five-things-you-may-not-know-about-skyscraper?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/article/2154480/jay-chou-assassins-bullet-five-things-you-may-not-know-about-skyscraper?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:34:13 +0000 It’s a story that’s a little hard to stomach: a man eats 74 hot dogs, including buns, in 10 minutes. The feat belongs to professional glutton Joey Chestnut, who on July 4 – Independence Day in the US – smashed the wiener eating record at Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York. The 11-time champion of the annual contest is one of the world’s best known competitive eaters, but he’s certainly not alone when it comes to making headlines. We recall five others who can swallow staggering amounts... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2154015/competitive-eater-joey-chestnut-not-only-crazy-glutton-meet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2154015/competitive-eater-joey-chestnut-not-only-crazy-glutton-meet?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:15:23 +0000 “Wanted … a name for a park”, ran a headline in the South China Morning Post on September 13, 1968. The story followed the Post’s initial report, five years earlier, on November 27, 1963, of a proposal to “develop the 42-acre Whitfield Barracks area in Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, as a large public park with commercial and resi­dential building sites” following the War Department’s decision to “surrender” the site where army boots had stomped for more than a century. On April 5, 1967, the Post had... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2151652/how-hong-kongs-kowloon-park-got-its-name-despite?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2151652/how-hong-kongs-kowloon-park-got-its-name-despite?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:33:49 +0000 “When I started gambling I had no idea I’d end up like this,” says 29-year-old reformed gambler Wah, who does not want to disclose his full name. “I thought I’d be able to control it.” We’re in a room at Wan Chai’s Tung Wah Even Centre, a counselling and treatment service for problem and pathological gamblers, where Wah is talking about his 11-year struggle with gambling addiction that started when he was a 16-year-old high school student. Under the legal age of 18, Wah had to ask older friends... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2151241/gambling-addiction-hong-kong-world-cup-kicks-betting-surge-we-look-addicts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2151241/gambling-addiction-hong-kong-world-cup-kicks-betting-surge-we-look-addicts?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:34:15 +0000 When news broke on Tuesday that designer Kate Spade, founder of the namesake leather goods brand, had taken her life in her New York apartment, it came as a shock to the fashion world. While the woman behind the brand had been out of the spotlight since selling her company and hadn’t been involved in the label that bears her name for more than a decade, colourful Kate Spade bags and accessories are still staples in the wardrobes of women in Hong Kong and around the world. The brand, which Spade... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2149523/buying-kate-spade-bag-was-rite-passage-hongkongers-fashion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2149523/buying-kate-spade-bag-was-rite-passage-hongkongers-fashion?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:10:26 +0000 A video of the awkward moment when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte kissed a Filipino woman on the lips at a function in Seoul went viral this week. The 73-year-old asked for a kiss from the unidentified woman in exchange for a book he was handing out. After a slight hesitation, she returned the kiss – and sent the internet into a frenzy. Duterte is far from being the only world leader to have had an awkward moment in public. Here are five more that spring readily to mind: 1. Vladimir... https://www.scmp.com/culture/article/2149401/not-just-duterte-five-other-world-leaders-have-awkward-moments-went-viral?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/article/2149401/not-just-duterte-five-other-world-leaders-have-awkward-moments-went-viral?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:41:23 +0000