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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Where to enjoy Christmas dinner in Hong Kong this festive season
25 Nov 2025 - 6:00PM
Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 12-14
10 Dec 2025 - 12:45PM
Seaside and sunshine: Sai Kung offers fertile grounds for independent cafes
2 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM
Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s F&B gurus on the highs and lows of 2025
11 Dec 2025 - 12:45PM
Dish in Focus: Flower crab dan dan noodles at Path
11 Dec 2025 - 6:15PM
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Hong Kong society
Wine snobs and Wi-fi cards: it’s tough being a Christmas dinner party guest
In Hong Kong, dinner party etiquette is less about following rules and more about guessing which version of the rules your host subscribes to.
15 Dec 2025 - 8:00PM
Christmas
Hong Kong’s best Christmas feasts, from traditional to more adventurous fare
15 Dec 2025 - 12:00PM
Hong Kong property
With luxury absent, new entrants steady Hong Kong retail property
15 Dec 2025 - 7:30AM
Chinese culture
Best places to eat in Hangzhou, China’s rising fine-dining hotspot
Hangzhou has become a gourmand mecca in recent years, with its Michelin Guide full of top restaurants serving a range of Chinese cuisines.
15 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM
Editor's Letter
This week in PostMag: festive tables, Cantopop and Christmas lights
As the holidays arrive, we reflect on food, memory, music – and the Hong Kong rituals that still anchor the season.
14 Dec 2025 - 12:45PM
What to do in Hong Kong
What to eat on Peng Chau, food-filled Hong Kong island great for day trips
Peng Chau is full of spots serving everything from old-school dim sum to pizza. Be sure to visit at weekends when most restaurants are open.
14 Dec 2025 - 12:15PM
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Your Perfect Week
Your cheat sheet for what to do in Hong Kong from December 13-19
Discover how Labubu creator Kasing Lung’s Monsters came to be, and hunt for interesting gifts at China Hong Kong City’s Christmas market.
15 Dec 2025 - 6:04PM
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How a block of online text led to a cafe’s viral stardom
Tai Bo Cafe in Yuen Long has gone viral online thanks to a copypasta trend on Threads recommending their meat patties, and have seen customers from as far as Macau.
13 Dec 2025 - 9:03AM
On Our Radar
What to do in Hong Kong this Christmas, from feasts to circus acts
Our guide to some of the events lighting up the city this holiday season – plus the best takeaway menus for Christmas dinner at home.
12 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM
Coffee
Coffee isn’t just a drink. How to use the beans as a seasoning
Beyond brews, coffee beans can be used to season sweet and savoury foods and even alcohol. Here’s how to use them in ganache, gravy and more.
12 Dec 2025 - 3:15PM
Israel-Gaza war
Kuala Lumpur restaurant brings Palestine’s rich flavours to Malaysia
Yafa Restaurant was set up to showcase Palestinian food and hospitality, with a little extra spice to cater to Malaysian tastes.
12 Dec 2025 - 12:15PM
What to do in Hong Kong
5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, December 12-14
Watch Hong Kong Ballet’s The Nutcracker, head to a beach beer festival, donate and shop at a festive thrifting event and more this weekend.
12 Dec 2025 - 10:49AM
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Christmas
Must-try Christmas and New Year’s meals in Hong Kong to check out
Restaurants across the city are dishing up festive fare, from fine dining and buffets to brunches. Here is a taste of what is on offer.
12 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Unesco adds Italian cuisine and its rituals to world cultural heritage list
Italy’s culinary traditions have been recognised by the United Nations’ cultural agency as part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage.
12 Dec 2025 - 5:14AM
100 Top Tables
Dish in Focus: Flower crab dan dan noodles at Path
Chef Tony Mok reimagines a Sichuan classic with Korean-inspired techniques, local crab, typhoon shelter crunch and chilled, cashew-based noodles.
11 Dec 2025 - 6:15PM
100 Top Tables
Word on the StrEAT: Hong Kong’s F&B gurus on the highs and lows of 2025
Bar Leone’s Lorenzo Antinori, Mius’ Shelley Tai, Tate Dining Room’s Vicky Lau and more share their experiences – beyond the World’s 50 Best Bars.
11 Dec 2025 - 12:45PM
Chinese cuisine
‘Hong Kong taught me balance’: Hutong chef on Sichuan spice and new menu
Sichuanese chef Ren Dingxu of Hutong Dubai talks about exploring spice in his new menu available in Hong Kong and his aim to ‘evoke emotion’.
11 Dec 2025 - 12:15PM
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Clockenflap Music Festival
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Local heroes TamJai and Chicken Egg Boy the stars of Clockenflap’s food stalls
Including budget-friendly soup noodle specialists TamJai in the food line-up in particular was a brilliant move by Clockenflap organisers.
11 Dec 2025 - 8:15AM
Chinese culture
How Boston Chinatown overcame constant threats to win its place in history
New England’s last surviving Chinatown, Boston Chinatown has long suffered hostile urban renewal but now its community is stronger than ever.
11 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM
Accidents and personal safety
Suckling pig blamed for leaving 31 ill after Hong Kong wedding banquet
Twenty male and 11 female guests developed abdominal pain and diarrhoea after attending Chinese wedding banquet at hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.
11 Dec 2025 - 3:16PM
100 Top Tables
Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for December 12-14
Sample champagne and caviar at New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel, celebrate Dead Poets’ second birthday, and drink wild sour craft beer at Blue Supreme.
10 Dec 2025 - 5:45PM
What to do in Hong Kong
Dim sum, pig’s tripe, Ningbo cuisine: food entrepreneur’s Hong Kong picks
Foodie Gerry Ma is no cook, but he knows where to find great Chinese cuisine in Hong Kong and chefs who exhibit excellent technique.
10 Dec 2025 - 5:15PM
100 Top Tables
Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for December 12-14
Enjoy alfresco fondue at Zoku’s The Terrace, a festive set dinner by Ask for Alonzo, and a one-day-only Christmas charity brunch by Ando.
10 Dec 2025 - 12:45PM
Best bars in Hong Kong
Why are so many Hong Kong bars closing? Industry insiders explain
High rents, a drop in international tourists, changing tastes and the Shenzhen effect are taking their toll, experts say. But there’s hope.
10 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM
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Asian diaspora
Hong Kong-style cafe receives top recognition. Owner has been to the city once
Tarek Hassan fell in love with Hong Kong culture as a teen. Now his Gongfu Cafe & Bao in Ottawa, Canada, serves authentic tastes of the city.
9 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM
Old Hong Kong
In pictures: a taste for winter warming fare, Hong Kong style
How Hongkongers keep warm in the winter, from steaming hotpot and snake soup to roasted chestnuts and bowls of crispy claypot rice.
8 Dec 2025 - 6:00AM
Vietnam
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Vietnam’s anti-drug police are speaking Gen Z, and it’s working
Ho Chi Minh City’s police have found a way to wrap dry state messaging in viral humour, mirroring China’s digital playbook.
7 Dec 2025 - 10:30AM
Fashion
The story of Paris’ famed Chinese restaurant Davé and its Hong Kong-born owner
Stars from Madonna to Tom Ford ate there. Now, Hong Kong-born owner Tai ‘Davé’ Cheung reflects as a new book of photos gives a peek inside.
7 Dec 2025 - 7:15AM
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