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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Chicken cordon bleu with Fontina cheese and sautéed porcini mushrooms at Hong Kong’s LucAle Italian restaurant. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 20-22

Sol Restaurant’s Jeonbok is built around abalone and seaweed. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography

Dish in focus: Jeonbok at Sol

Home to a mix of cultures, traditions and flavours, Macau was already a pioneer of fusion food long before the term for this creative cuisine was invented. Photo: Getty Images

International Cities of Gastronomy Fest Macao launches 10-day celebration

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Exploration is the first cocktail menu at Argo, at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, from beverage manager Jonathan Gabbay. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 19-21

Six Hong Kong outlets are celebrating Art Month with special offerings, such as this roasted quail dish at Akira Back. Photo: Handout

5 art-inspired menus to indulge in during Hong Kong’s Art Month

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A special dinner at Tosca di Angelo in Hong Kong, a collaboration with jewellery brand Damiani. Photo: Handout
Weekend Food Guide

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 26-29

While Art Month is in full swing, the Grand Hyatt takes on the world record for largest charcuterie buffet, and The Ritz-Carlton’s Tosca di Angelo collaborates with Damiani.

What to do in Hong Kong

‘Classic’ Cantonese, Japanese: art curator’s Hong Kong restaurant picks

Luxury Hotels

Review | Explore a new side of the city from the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai Qiantan

New Openings

Hong Kong’s hottest new openings, from Terrace Boulud to Ramenya Shima

Daniel Boulud finally makes his Hong Kong debut, Tokyo’s Ramenya Shima arrives, and LucAle moves to a new location.

Terrace Boulud on the rooftop of Landmark Prince’s. Photo: courtesy Terrace Boulud
Wellness

‘A healthy meal helps you heal’: doctors on why food is the best medicine

What we eat has a significant impact on our health, but is rarely treated like medicine. Nutrition experts explain why it should be.

Hong Kong Fine Dining

Hong Kong’s chefs receive top honours in 2026 Black Pearl Restaurant Guide

The Michelin-equivalent list published by Meituan knighted two Hong Kong chefs, Vicky Cheng and Terry Ho, with special awards.

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100 Top Tables: Cities of Gastronomy

International Cities of Gastronomy Fest Macao launches 10-day celebration

As the city hosts the 10-day celebration, its centuries-old fusion cuisine is embracing a new wave of global chefs and bold ideas.

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Macau Government Tourism Office
Home to a mix of cultures, traditions and flavours, Macau was already a pioneer of fusion food long before the term for this creative cuisine was invented. Photo: Getty Images
100 Top Tables: Cities of Gastronomy

The young English YouTubers bringing Korean food diplomacy to Macau

Known for their viral ramen videos and visiting Buckingham Palace with Blackpink, the British duo are bringing their brand of food diplomacy to Macau.

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Macau Government Tourism Office
100 Top Tables: Cities of Gastronomy

Young chefs are turning food traditions into tools for global change

Flora Igoe of the Youth Culture Programme is mobilising young chefs to safeguard food heritage and drive agrifood systems transformation.

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Macau Government Tourism Office
100 Top Tables: Cities of Gastronomy

How Unesco’s Creative Cities are reimagining tomorrow, from food to design

From Macau’s City of Gastronomy status to Unesco’s new focus on architecture, the UCCN is rewriting how cities harness creativity to shape their future.

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Macau Government Tourism Office
Denise Bax, secretary of the Unesco Creative Cities Network, says the concept of a “creative city” has evolved from an economic driver to a model of culture-driven sustainable urban development. Photo: Handout
Chinese cuisine

Video | How restaurant Putien brought Fujianese cuisine abroad

Putien is based on homestyle Heng Hwa cuisine from its namesake city of Putian in China’s coastal Fujian province.

Dishes from Fujianese restaurant Putien
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Hong Kong property

‘Upstairs’ moves downstairs: Hong Kong shops head to street level as rents fall

Retailers and restaurants adjust to lower rents and weaker demand, with operators expanding at ground level and testing pop-up formats.

Asian diaspora

Trailblazing Chinese restaurant is showing Swedes what the culture is all about

From baijiu to Sichuan cuisine, Surfers in Stockholm has it all. Now, this Chinese culture hub is gearing up to celebrate 20 years.

Japan

A quick guide to sake, traditional Japanese drink that’s as nuanced as wine

Junmai, honjozo, ginjo, daiginjo – find out how sakes are classed, their best food pairings and more with these useful facts.

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Pouring sake for others and refilling their glasses before they are empty is an act of hospitality and attentiveness in Japan. Photo: Shutterstock
Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, March 22-28

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants brings big name chefs to town, edible art comes to Central, and Hong Kong Ballet channels 80s pop.

A bite of banana at Central Yards Edible Art Fair, where galleries pair art movements with real food. Photo: courtesy of Central Yards Edible Art Fair
Lessons from China's history

Reflections | How the Hakka spread in China and beyond, their cuisine reflecting hard lives

A people shaped by centuries of migration, Hakka communities are found across China and are prevalent in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

100 Top Tables

5 art-inspired menus to indulge in during Hong Kong’s Art Month

The city’s chefs and mixologists add to March’s colours with masterpieces like Banksy-style desserts, a Van Gogh highball and Warhol Wagyu.

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Susan Jung's recipes

Annatto, saffron’s subtle stand-in, and 3 bold ways to cook it

The vivid annatto, or ‘lipstick tree’, seed adds colour – and a minty note – to rice, steak and lamb.

Annatto, or achiote, is often used as a saffron substitute for its colour, despite not tasting anything like it. Here’s how to use this much more subtle spice in three recipes. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong culture

‘A tough life’: the family behind Kowloon Walled City’s beloved fish ball maker

Roger Ha’s parents took Ha Ming Kee from a crude Kowloon Walled City venture to a successful fish ball chain. Now he has taken on the mantle.

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, March 20-22

A pop culture expo, a celebration of Indian heritage and food, and a street art festival are among our picks for this weekend in Hong Kong.

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Macau

Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2026: China Tang gains a Michelin star

The Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2026 honours 98 restaurants, with 15 new to the list. Sol’s Kim Gwan-ju wins young chef award.

Some of the winners at the Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau 2026 awards ceremony at the Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau on March 19. Photo: Michelin Guide
100 Top Tables

Dish in focus: Jeonbok at Sol

Head chef GwanJu Kim blends French techniques and Korean nostalgia in a Jeju abalone and seaweed dish that reframes ‘birthday‑soup’ comfort.

Sol Restaurant’s Jeonbok is built around abalone and seaweed. Photo: Nicholas Wong Sixteen Photography
Cha chaan teng culture and history

More than milk tea and curry: Hong Kong-style cafes celebrated in exhibition

‘The Cha Chaan Teng Codex – Tales of Invisible Designs’ dives into the visual languages, heritage and new interpretations of Hong Kong cafes.

Fame and celebrity

On the Menu | Noma chef’s Instagram apology over abuse allegations is worthy of an Oscar

Will Rene Redzepi’s carefully filmed and edited video of him addressing his team at the three-Michelin-star restaurant appease his critics?

Mainland China

Best things to do in Harbin, China’s ice festival mecca with a Russian accent

Visiting Harbin during its Ice and Snow Festival adds a range of winter fun on top of delicious food, Russian architecture and bathhouses.

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Tourists admire ice sculptures during the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in 2023. As well as hosting the world’s largest ice festival, the capital of Heilongjiang province in northeastern China is home to delicious local delicacies and Russian influences, which make it great for a weekend getaway. Photo: China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
Macau

How to ruin a classic cocktail and which one people need to stop drinking

Top bartenders from around the world converged in Macau for guest shifts and a revealing discussion on classic cocktails.

The tomato martini trend was one that was talked about in a recent panel discussion at the Wing Lei Bar & Friends event at the Wynn Palace hotel in Macau. Photo: Shutterstock
Locals' Guide

Insider’s guide to Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Derelict houses reborn as hip cafes and a showcase for local fashion talent are some of the draws in Johor’s capital, actress Debbie Goh reveals.

Weekend Drinks Guide

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 19-21

Problem Child pops up at Dead Poets, Overstory takes over Ozone at The Ritz-Carlton, and Argo at the Four Seasons debuts a locally focused menu.

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