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What to do in Hong Kong

What to do in Hong Kong
Your ultimate guide to what’s on in Hong Kong, including insider tips, weekend round-ups, curated guides, plus unique happenings across the city.
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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
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

Singapore’s restaurants and bars, like Barely Aged, offer a smorgasbord of gastronomical adventures. Photo: Handout

Unsung Eats: 5 best places to eat – and drink – in Singapore

Hong Kong restaurant La Taverna is ready to tempt you this Valentine’s weekend with La Mela del Peccato (Apple of Sin) dessert. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong food guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

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

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

Off Wave, from Dead Poets’ latest menu Liquid Gallery, is inspired by a Hokusai print. Photo: Handout

Drink in Focus: Off Wave at Dead Poets

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Sammi Cheng (left) and Dayo Wong in a still from Night King (category IIB, Cantonese), directed by Jack Ng. Louise Wong co-stars.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Night King: Dayo Wong, Sammi Cheng lead enjoyably fluffy nightclub comedy

While slightly disjointed and overlong, Night King delivers a fun blend of romance and nostalgic glamour set in Hong Kong’s nightclub scene.

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Food and Drinks

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

Hong Kong economy

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

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Lunar New Year

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 13-15

From the new Wuthering Heights film to a horse-themed Chinese art show and a couples-focused sound bath, here are our picks for the weekend.

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“Two Steeds” by Au Ho-nien is part of the zodiac exhibition “Celebrating the Year of the Horse” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum. Photo: Dickson Lee
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | The Snowball on a Sunny Day: Mark Six miss turns into mayhem in family comedy

This witty Lunar New Year film follows a woman pretending to have won the Mark Six lottery after failing to buy the winning ticket.

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Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Off Wave at Dead Poets

The shochu-based cocktail, part of the bar’s Liquid Gallery menu, is inspired by Hokusai’s art and blends Japanese flavours.

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Wellness

Hong Kong Ballet and Pure Fitness join forces to offer new exercise programme

The dance and strength training crossover aims to dispel the perception of ballet as an inaccessible and elite art form.

People take part in an introductory workshop led by Shen Jie at a Pure Fitness gym in Central. Hong Kong Ballet and Pure Fitness have united to demystify ballet, offering workshops that blend dance and fitness. Photo: Sun Yeung
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong drinks guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

From Flower Years’ Drunk in Love to Mostly Harmless’ Mardi Gras, there are parties for romantics and rebels this Valentine’s weekend.

Food and Drinks

Hotel chef’s Hong Kong picks for Italian fine dining, French food and more

Genoa native Fabio Mariella shares his favourite restaurants for top Italian dishes, French chicken, dim sum, Peking duck and Indian.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong food guide for Valentine’s Day weekend

This Valentine’s weekend has everything from Japanese comfort food and classic Italian romance, to 4 courses bookended by oysters and pavlova.

Hong Kong restaurant La Taverna is ready to tempt you this Valentine’s weekend with La Mela del Peccato (Apple of Sin) dessert. Photo: Handout
American cinema

Review | Wuthering Heights: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi sizzle in modern moorcore

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights captivates with stunning visuals in the Yorkshire Moors and sizzling chemistry between Elordi and Robbie.

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Jacob Elordi (left) and Margot Robbie in a still from Wuthering Heights (category IIB), directed by Emerald Fennell. Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Your Perfect Week

Our cheat sheet for the best things to do in Hong Kong, February 8-14

Try two new menus at Michelin-starred Hansik Goo, combine alcohol and tattoos at Cordis Hotel’s Alibi bar, or enjoy retro-futuristic neon art at Tai Kwun.

Fashion

Hong Kong’s indie fashion labels bloom at new Tsim Sha Tsui pop-up

Chance Encounters is a pop-up run by the brands YanYan, Aenrmous and Kinyan Lam that aims to elevate Hong Kong’s indie fashion scene.

On Our Radar

Fireworks views, fortune tosses – and the city’s most wanted tables

The best restaurants in Hong Kong to see in the Year of the Horse, from Lai Ching Heen to China Tang.

Lunar New Year dishes at Hotel Icon’s Above & Beyond restaurant. Photo: courtesy Hotel Icon
Explore Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, February 6-8

The last days of a designer book sale, a TCM cocktail experience, a dim-sum-inspired exhibition and more await Hongkongers this weekend.

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Check out the final days of bespoke art-book publisher Taschen’s biannual sale, one of five things to look forward to in Hong Kong this weekend. Photo: Karim Tabar
Asian cinema: Japanese films

Review | Tokyo Taxi: Takuya Kimura and Chieko Baisho lead moving Yoji Yamada drama

Tokyo Taxi is an utterly captivating ride that sees an elderly woman bond with her taxi driver while reminiscing about her eventful life.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for February 5-7

Kick off this month with painter-themed drinks at Dead Poets, guest shifts that bring Asian-inspired cocktails to The Opposites, and Italian flavours to Avoca.

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Food and Drinks

‘Excellent’ oysters, ‘deeply satisfying’ congee: where a chef eats in Hong Kong

Eric Chan of Pedder Chinese shares his favourite Hong Kong restaurants for Spanish food, chicken congee and his ‘guilty pleasure’.

Spanish whole seabass at Aire in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood, where Eric Chan enjoys casual Spanish food. The chef also shares where he goes in the city for Cantonese comfort food and flavours from his childhood. Photo: Aire
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 6-8

Sip on single-origin matcha, sink into a black sesame flan afternoon tea at Rosewood, then feast on an Italian-led Sunday roast at Island Shangri-La.

Asian cinema: Japanese films

Review | All You Need Is Kill: Japanese novel behind Edge of Tomorrow gets animated

A young recruit is stuck in a time loop amid an alien invasion in All You Need Is Kill, an animated sci-fi thriller based on a light novel.

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Art

Strange, disturbing, visceral: Chinese video art pioneer’s new work at Tai Kwun

‘A Day’ by Zhang Peili is a 12-minute, 360-degree visual onslaught meant to resemble the interior of our own social-media-saturated minds.

An exhibition view of “DigiRadiance - Zhang Peili: A Day”, at the F Hall Studio at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun heritage and arts centre. Photo: Michael Yu / courtesy of Tai Kwun Contemporary
European cinema

Why Sentimental Value is the most acclaimed European film of the year

The Norwegian drama with Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning won the Grand Prix at Cannes and has 9 Oscar nods. What makes it so appealing?

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Elle Fanning (right) and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in a still from Sentimental Value. The two actresses, along with the other two leads, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve, have received Academy Award nominations for their roles in Joachim Trier’s Norwegian family drama.
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Sabrina Ma walked out of the orchestra. Now she plays till she drops

Berlin-based Sabrina Ma discusses her move from orchestra percussionist to solo performances, where she becomes ‘kind of dead at the end’.

Valentine's Day

10 alternative Valentine’s Day events in Hong Kong for singles looking to mingle

Here are 10 events for singles to enjoy around Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong, from blind dates to parties and fun runs.

Food and Drinks

6 new Hong Kong coffee shops to welcome the Lunar New Year in February 2026

From a Korean-style cafe to a Japanese toast joint and new branches of cult favourites, there’s a lot to excite coffee lovers this month.

A hot cacao at Brisa in Causeway Bay. The chocolate-forward coffee shop is one of the exciting new openings in Hong Kong this month, as well as new branches of old favourites EN Coffee and By the O. Photo: Instagram/brisahk
Food and Drinks

10 romantic Hong Kong restaurants for the perfect Valentine’s Day dinner

From Michelin-starred dining to vibey Spanish tapas and Italian fare, here are some of the best restaurants to visit this Valentine’s Day.

Dishes from Ask for Alonzo’s Valentine’s Day menu. Hong Kong has a range of romantic dining spots for Valentine’s Day 2026, from Michelin-starred artistry to bistro feasts. Photo: Ask for Alonzo
Food and Drinks

11 new Hong Kong restaurants and bars to try in February 2026

New openings include the new branch of a Korean pizza chain, a Japanese gelato joint, a borsch specialist and two French restaurants.

Food and Drinks

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, January 30-February 1

Indulge in an excess of tea, browse Hong Kong’s independent fashion brands, immerse yourself in Central Asian culture and more this weekend.

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