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Mother's Day

Mother's Day
A look at the best dining, beauty and fashion options for spoiling your mum
Florists on Flower Market Road offer up bouquets for sale on the day before Mother’s Day. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong economy

Budding Mother’s Day competition as Hong Kong florists prune prices

Crowds flock to Mong Kok market on day before Mother’s Day for colourful bouquets of carnations, roses and other fresh flowers.

Food and Drinks

Your Mother’s Day weekend food guide for May 8-10

Food and Drinks

11 of the best Mother’s Day 2026 menus in Hong Kong for a special treat

Hong Kong society

Letters | Hong Kong can regulate video game loot boxes by enforcing its laws

Readers discuss how to tackle gambling-like products, support for working mothers, Hong Kong’s tourism revival, and promoting recycling.

Capsule toy vending machines, known in Japan as gachapon, have become popular outside the country. This and other popular physical gambling-like products should be more strictly regulated. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong flower market bustling on Mother’s Day, but mainland bargains bloom

Last-minute shoppers seek out roses at Mong Kok Flower Market, while some vendors say cross-border competition should be nipped in the bud.

Fame and celebrity

Anne Geddes photographed Hong Kong families – now she collabs with Baby Dior

When her husband Kel Geddes became president of programming at ATV, Anne Geddes began exploring her interest in photography – she’s since built a career out of endearing images of newborns.

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Diplomacy

Letters | Vietnamese leader’s ‘pragmatism’ is old wine in new bottles

Readers discuss To Lam’s diplomacy in the face of US tariffs, the financial challenges of motherhood, and the calls for Hong Kong to rethink its currency’s link to the US dollar.

Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam in Hanoi on April 14. Photo: Kyodo
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: A mother-son art duo and Philippines’ surfing capital

Explore a mother and son’s shared passion, the rise of Siargao’s surf scene, Hong Kong’s historical shops and unusual China train routes.

Food and Drinks

7 Hong Kong restaurants to celebrate Mother’s Day 2025

From a boozy brunch at Whisk and Asian delights at Café 103, to Portuguese flavours at Flint and Cantonese classics at Yat Tung Heen, here’s how to celebrate mum in Hong Kong this year.

Style Edit

Style Edit: Grown Alchemist unveils Mother’s Day offers at Hong Kong’s IFC Mall

The brand is offering big savings on ranges including the Face Edit and Awards Edit – whose 3 formulations have all been internationally commended – while new clients get 30% off their first treatment.

The Grown Alchemist flagship store at Hong Kong’s IFC Mall. Photo: Handout
Trending in China

China laundry firm in hot water over ad which panders to stereotypes

A top laundry detergent producer in China has been forced to pull a recent advertisement in which it suggested strongly that washing clothes was the job of women after a public backlash.

‘Are mums free maids?’ China laundry brand causes backlash for a sexist advert that a new product improves cleaning efficiency. Photo: SCMP composite/Xiaohongshu
Hong Kong society

Hongkongers hit Shenzhen’s spas for Mother’s Day, while others opt for dim sum

Traditional bouquets and family lunch just as important for some, as last-minute shoppers hit Mong Kok’s flower market.

Hong Kong society

Opinion | Hong Kong mothers shouldn’t have to apologise for demands of parenting

Despite governments around the world fretting over falling birth rates, society still puts up many barriers to mothers returning to the workforce. This Mother’s Day, let’s work to help mothers feel truly supported rather than penalised for choosing to have children and also wanting to work.

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Food and Drinks

Want to treat mum? 13 places to celebrate Mother’s Day 2024 in Hong Kong

Whether it is a decadent afternoon tea or a vegan cheesemaking workshop, mums are well catered for this Mother’s Day in Hong Kong – here are 13 places you might want to consider booking.

The Verandah at The Repulse Bay will serve a Mother’s Tribute Afternoon Tea from May 8 to 12. Photo: The Verandah
India

Do India’s ‘funny’ Mother’s Day gifts subvert ‘supermum’ tropes or uphold them?

Acknowledging and portraying exasperation, anger of mothers are initial steps to change stereotypes of ‘selfless’ mums who are ‘devoted to families’.

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A mother soothes her baby at their home in Bengaluru. Photo: AFP
Food and Drinks

‘I miss her food’: 3 Asian chefs honour their inspiring mums and grandmas

Ahead of Mother’s Day, three top Asian chefs pay tribute to the mothers and grandmothers who influenced their culinary journey by sharing some of their fondest memories of them.

Asian Games 2023

Asian Games postponement sparks Mother’s Day rethink over second child for Yiu

Marathon runner had been putting off having a second child until after the multi-sport event in Hangzhou in September, but the postponement has prompted a change of heart.

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Coronavirus Hong Kong

Hongkongers flock to flower market on Mother’s Day amid eased curbs

‘The crowd is almost back to pre-pandemic levels and business is almost 70 per cent better than last year,’ says a flower shop owner.

Mong Kok’s flower market was buzzing with Hongkongers on Mother’s Day. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

How 6 Hong Kong celebrity mums balance family life and showbiz careers

Mother’s Day is coming soon, so we’re celebrating 6 Hong Kong icons who are mums too – from Marvel star Fala Chen and Gigi Leung, to Anita’s Louise Wong

Food and Drinks

Where to celebrate Mother’s Day in Hong Kong, with gourmet and spa delights

Show mum you love her this year at the Grand Hyatt, Landmark Mandarin Oriental or Ritz-Carlton, with delectable brunches, pampering spa packages or staycations

History

Language Matters | What do carnations have do to with gouged-out eyes and the colour of flesh?

The genus name of the traditional Mother’s Day flower, Dianthus, has some macabre origins, while several theories surround the origin of the name ‘carnation’.

Carnations are prepared for shipment in the northeastern Japanese city of Natori ahead of Mother’s Day in 2017. Photo: Getty Images
Food and Drinks

No reservation? Tips for a last-minute Mother’s Day package in Hong Kong

Mother’s Day is nearly here, and for those who haven’t made plans yet, here are some ideas for mum-friendly packages and activities in Hong Kong.

If you haven’t organised anything for Mother’s Day in Hong Kong, here are some ideas. Hotel Icon, for example, offers an in-room, four-course Southeast Asian set dinner (above). Photo: Hotel Icon
Explore Hong Kong

The best Hong Kong Mother’s Day treats for 2022, from spa days to gift sets

This May 8, Hong Kong’s top restaurants, hotels and bakeries offer plenty of ways to spoil mum, whether she’d prefer sipping Veuve Clicquot or enjoying an all-you-can-eat feast

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The working mothers of the world are owed a debt of gratitude

The pandemic has exacerbated pressure on working mums to balance the demands of work and childcare. The foreign workers who leave their own children behind to support local families should be especially honoured.

Coronavirus pandemic

Few restaurants switch to ‘vaccine bubble’ scheme for Mother’s Day

Only 300 restaurants meet the government’s rules for accepting tables of six and offering dine-in service till midnight.

A staff member sets a table at the London Chinese Restaurant in Mong Kok, one of many unable to take advantage of newly relaxed rules. Photo: May Tse
North Korea

Video | In North Korea, beauty rules on Mother’s Day

North Koreans rush to buy cosmetics and get hair styled on Mother's Day
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Fashion

5 best summer handbags for mother’s day – more stylish than Selena Gomez

These luxury brand designers are offering chic bags for jet-setting mums who love island-hopping, the beach and just looking fab any time

Families in China

Blowing Water | A family is what one makes of it, and it’s not always traditionally nuclear

While there may be all kinds of combinations today such as families with same-sex parents or a single parent, what matters at the end of the day is the ability to raise kids into good people.

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