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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
From celebrating love to leaving the past behind, Hong Kong’s bars have you covered this Valentine’s weekend. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

Kinsman’s Neen Go-Lada, exclusive to Lunar New Year 2026. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 21-23

Arm Coffee in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, serves a delicious brunch. Photo: Handout

Seaside and sunshine: Sai Kung offers fertile grounds for independent cafes

Some of the mahjong tiles in Conspiracy Chocolate’s special set for Lunar New Year. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Conspiracy Chocolate’s mahjong set brings good luck this Lunar New Year

Grand Majestic Sichuan in Hong Kong offers 10 new dishes for your post-Chinese New Year weekend. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 20-22

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Hong Kong chefs

Can Cadbury chocolate-fed Wagyu outshine Japan’s finest beef?

Raising cattle on confectionery might sound crazy, but to Australian Wagyu producer Mayura Station, it’s ingenious and makes a difference.

South Korea

These Korean cafes in London are exploding in popularity. Here’s why

Icons and Influencers

How Amanda Cheung is mixing charity, cocktails and Hong Kong heritage

What to do in Hong Kong

How did cookies kickstart a community social movement for one lost Hongkonger?

How does cake bring people together? Events organiser Rachel Au of Baking Social found purpose in her passion for all things sweet.

Baking Social’s Christmas Cookie Social event featured treats in all shapes and sizes. Photo: Leo Thom
Asia travel

The Chinese city where waffles, watchtowers and world history meet

Guangdong’s ‘hometown of overseas Chinese’ is where architecture and cuisine created by returning émigrés reveal how culture flows both ways.

Susan Jung's recipes

How to use oregano, and a sprinkling of recipes spotlighting the ‘pizza herb’

Oregano works well with meat, tomatoes, pasta and pizza and is found in a wide range of cuisines. Be careful using the dried version, though.

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Chinese cuisine

Chinese food, but make it fine dining? Chefs push back against stereotypes

Forget fast food in boxes: chefs at upscale restaurants in the US are elevating Chinese cuisine to fine dining status, tasting menus and all.

Emily Yuen, chef at one-Michelin-star Chinese restaurant Yingtao in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, prepares lo mai gai - sticky rice, lap cheong and salted duck egg yolk stuffed in a deboned chicken wing. Many chefs in the US are elevating Chinese cuisine and challenging stereotypes. Photo: AP
What to do in Hong Kong

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

Enjoy music and markets in West Kowloon, take your pet to a cafe in Sheung Wan, attend a women-only workout in Quarry Bay and more.

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100 Top Tables

Dish in focus: crab claw porichettu at Prince and the Peacock

Chef Palash Mitra’s signature crab claw porichettu is a richly layered curry of mud and snow crab cooked in a traditional earthen pot.

Lunar New Year

Why do Chinese love water chestnuts? All about the lucky ‘horse’s hoof’

A humble and vastly underrated ingredient, water chestnuts are used in a popular Lunar New Year dessert and also have many health benefits.

The water chestnut, a versatile ingredient known as “horse’s hoof”, is celebrated for its crisp texture and auspicious meaning in Lunar New Year dishes. Photo: Jonathan Wong
TV shows and streaming video

On the Menu | What do an American reality TV show and Chinese aunties have in common?

A Chinese millennial woman talks fat and fortune as she contrasts the toxic culture of the early noughties with today’s body positivity.

Contestants from the first season of America’s Next Top Model in 2003 in Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model. The reality competition, wildly popular during the noughties, often told women that they were “too big” for the runway. Photo: TNS
100 Top Tables

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 21-23

We’ve got you covered for drinks as we welcome the Year of the Horse, from Chinese New Year cocktails to a special night at Qura with Singapore’s Side Door.

Thailand

At Bangkok’s Aqua Bar, White Lotus luxury meets duck-inspired cocktails

For its 20th anniversary, the Aqua Bar at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel in Bangkok has crafted cocktails that are a throwback to its past.

Indonesia

Video | TikTokkers hungry for Indonesian man’s ‘mini-food empire’

The miniature artist became a street vendor after his tiny culinary creations caught the eye of children and adults alike.

The miniature artist became a street vendor after his tiny culinary creations caught the eye of children and adults alike.
What to do in Hong Kong

Where a Hong Kong chef loves to eat dim sum, hotpot, pizza and more

Keith Yam of Tuber Umberto Bombana and Cannubi reveals his Hong Kong restaurant hotspots for Italian, Japanese, Chinese and more.

Roasted goose puff from Man Ho at the JW Marriott Hotel in Admiralty, Hong Kong, a favourite dinner restaurant for chef Keith Yam of Tuber Umberto Bombana and Cannubi. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Weekend Food Guide

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 20-22

Treat yourself to a classic three-course meal at Morton’s, punchy new pasta plates at Twist, or a long Sunday brunch at Grand Majestic Sichuan.

Chinese culture

8 lucky Lunar New Year foods to welcome the Year of the Horse

From dumplings shaped like gold ingots to longevity noodles, these traditional Lunar New Year dishes are eaten to invite good fortune.

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Wellness

Want to beat your sugar cravings? How to cut down and even quit sugary foods

Kick-start your sugar-free journey with expert tips on managing cravings, mindful snacking and embracing healthier substitutes.

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From our archives

In pictures: Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year obsession with good fortune

To celebrate the Year of the Horse, we take a look back at how Hong Kong invited good luck through traditional customs from the 1970s to the 2000s.

Wine and Spirits

This TCM bar in China makes customers drinks based on its doctor’s diagnoses

Shanghai bar Niang Qing is one of many new traditional Chinese medicine bars that offer bespoke wellness to China’s stressed-out youth.

China consumption

‘Disgusting’: pre-made Lunar New Year meals lose lustre for Chinese families

Food fight between star influencer and restaurant chain becomes a hot potato at reunion dinner tables as hosts pick quality over convenience.

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The Xibei scandal sparked debate about pre-made meals with many Chinese families planning to ditch the popular option in favour of hosting home cooked reunion dinners this Lunar New Year. Photo: Shutterstock
Guangzhou

He saw Guangzhou as a challenge. Now, his restaurant has a Michelin star

Chef Louis Tam’s Chowa earned a Michelin star in Guangzhou, defying the city’s fine dining norms with his rebellious Japanese-French cuisine.

Chef Louis Tam’s bold culinary vision has earned Chowa, which he opened in 2023, a Michelin star in Guangzhou. Photo: Hei Kiu Au
100 Top Tables

Conspiracy Chocolate’s mahjong set brings good luck this Lunar New Year

The local Hong Kong chocolatier – known for its Coa and Bakehouse collaboration bars – launches its 13 Orphans mahjong set for the Year of the Horse.

Asian Cuisine

How do couples who work together thrive? Ask these restaurant duos

Four couples who work together in hospitality explain how they maintain thriving, loving partnerships when things get heated in the kitchen.

100 Top Tables

Word on the StrEAT: 6 F&B power couples on what love looks like after service

Penicillin’s Agung and Laura Prabowo, Dieci’s Paolo Olivieri and Hanna Lee, and more on married life, work and everything in between.

Pandan Man co-founders Brian Kwan (right) and Caroline Yuen are among Hong Kong’s F&B power couples who share space at work and home. Photo: Handout
Lunar New Year

10 great Lunar New Year food and drink gifts available in Hong Kong

From chic hampers with abalone and nuts to local gin, these gifts are great for giving – and sharing – to ring in the Year of the Horse 2026.

Hong Kong hotel Cordis’ Ming Court Deluxe Chinese New Year Hamper is one of the many great gifts you can buy for friends or family members ahead of your next Lunar New Year gathering. Photo: Cordis
Hong Kong society

Share where risky oysters are from, authorities urged after food poisoning cases

Restaurants say demand has plunged amid calls for diners to avoid eating them raw as number of norovirus-related food poisoning cases rises.

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Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong diners bid farewell to 80-year-old Honolulu Coffee Shop in Wan Chai

Dozens pack cha chaan teng known for its egg tarts and milk tea ahead of March 1 closure.

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