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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
Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. Here’s how Hong Kong’s fine dining is improving its green policies: from Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental and Michelin-starred Mono to Vicky Lau’s Mora, Roganic and the Marriott group. Photo: Ting Lung Heen

How Hong Kong’s fine dining scene is getting greener – at last

The staff of Socio at the the 100 Top Tables Tables 2025 Unveiling Ceremony and Awards. Photo: Jordan Chan

Celebrating 100 Top Tables’ top restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau

Bar Leone co-founder Lorenzo Antinori. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

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Young students of the SDM dance school admire extravagant samba headdresses for Hong Kong’s first-ever Brazilian festival, which comes to the city for 10 days from June 20-29. Photo: Nora Tam
Your Perfect Week

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, June 15-21

Try caviar tasting at Qura Bar, listen to local bands at Ko Shan Fest, savour Cantonese liquor cocktails, and enjoy a Brazilian culture festival.

On Our Radar

Take a magic carpet ride at the Hong Kong Palace Museum

Food and Drinks

Chef of Hong Kong’s 3-Michelin-star Ta Vie on his go-to restaurants

Wellness

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

From a music festival to a fashion pop-up to a sound therapy course to sipping wine paired with music, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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ThinkWine’s Vinyl & Wine nights take place monthly. Photo: ThinkWine
Food and Drinks

Why people love Hong Kong-style egg waffles and best places to eat them

Also known as gai daan zai and egg puffs, this popular street food occupies a special place in many Hongkongers’ hearts.

American cinema

15 Hollywood movies to watch in summer 2025, from Superman to F1: The Movie

Jurassic World Rebirth, The Fantastic Four and The Conjuring: Last Rites also make our list of the best Hollywood films to catch this summer.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 13-15

This weekend, experience a six-hands guest shift at the St Regis, try creative cocktails at Hong Kong’s new Ginza-style bar, and explore nature-inspired drinks with Caprice Bar’s new menu.

Madara in Causeway Bay is Hong Kong’s newest Ginza-style cocktail bar. Photo: Handout
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Behind the Shadows: Louis Koo plays detective in Malaysia-set thriller

The story of the hunt for a serial killer whose most riveting aspect is the marital woes of a detective (Louis Koo), this film misses a beat.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 13-15

Celebrate Father’s Day with your meat-loving dad at Morton’s, or head to Rosewood for Spanish specials and Tai Kwun for spice-driven dishes.

Food and Drinks

The buzz in Hong Kong, from a coffee bar to burgers with a view

Enjoy NOC Coffee Co’s healthy menu or Food Parc’s premium offerings, heal your body at Phyx’s, and indulge in Flat Iron Burger’s waterfront dining.

Nearly 10,000 premium products are stocked at Food Parc in Wan Chai’s Hopewell Mall. Photo: Food Parc
Hong Kong society

What are Hong Kong’s best deals, discounts for this year’s July 1 celebrations?

Free MTR tickets, Ocean Park discounts and dining deals among the offers available on anniversary of city’s return to Chinese rule.

From July 1 to 3, trams trips will be free of charge. Photo: Jelly Tse
Wellness

Women’s longevity, heart health and more in focus at Hong Kong summit

Medical gaslighting, AI-driven tools also among topics to be examined by experts at the inaugural Women’s Health in Focus: A Global Summit.

American cinema

Review | How to Train Your Dragon: middling live-action makeover

A vivacious cast lifts this live-action remake of DreamWorks fantasy cartoon about Vikings battling dragons, but the film is much too long.

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Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, June 8-14

Celebrate Father’s Day at Rosewood’s Henry – and don’t miss On Kawara’s retrospective, Bar Leone’s anniversary or the Space Museum’s new sky show.

Bar Leone will host a guest shift by Giorgio Bargiani of The Connaught Bar in London (No. 13 on the 2024 global list) on June 10. Photo: courtesy The Connaught Bar
Art

He called them motherboards. Hong Kong show of artist’s printing plates

Paper flower seller and self-taught artist Ha Bik-chuen’s many talents included creating collage-like plates used to make prints for sale.

The collagraph plate for printing “Follow Me” (1984), by late Hong Kong artist Ha Bik-chuen, on display as part of the exhibition “Reframing Strangeness” at Para Site in Quarry Bay. Photo: courtesy of the Ha Family and Rossi ＆ Rossi
Tourism

5 global musical stars performing in Greater Bay Area in July 2025

Hong Kong music lovers are in for a treat in July with concerts from Macau to Jiangmen featuring the likes of Kenny G and Richard Clayderman.

Wellness

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

From the ultimate celebration of cocktails to ballet, Thai massage and a Lane Crawford pop-up, our picks for your Hong Kong weekend.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Valley of the Shadow of Death: Anthony Wong is a pastor in doubt

Young man who raped pastor’s daughter, leading to her death, ends up at his church. Will he avenge her or forgive him? Film ducks the issue.

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Anthony Wong Chau-sang in a still from Valley of the Shadow of Death. Photo: Handout
Sex and relationships

Hong Kong Pride Month events in June, from drag shows to rooftop parties

Venues including Eaton HK, the Hyatt Centric Victoria Harbour and Casa Dao are doing their bit to celebrate Hong Kong’s LGBTQ community.

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Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 6-8

From fresh takes on classic sips at C108 to can’t-miss guest shifts at Bar Leone and The Aubrey, here’s where to drink this Friday to Sunday.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 5-7

Experience a live tuna-cutting ceremony at Nobu, check out new Kennedy Town restaurant Voon, and celebrate World Oceans Day with sustainable seafood.

The Merchants’ Belle Époque Brunch in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

Where a congee lover in Hong Kong eats food that tastes of home

Architect Wong Kam-sing talks about villages he visits for home-grown coffee and Hakka cuisine, and his go-to restaurants in urban Hong Kong.

Congee at Sang Kee Congee Shop. Photo: Intsagram/eathealthytime
Food and Drinks

Buzziest new openings in Hong Kong, from Japanese-Korean fusion to craft beer

Slurp noodles at The Bridge at Hong Kong International Airport, grab a pint at Goose Island Taproom or an on-tap cocktail from Bar Oasis, and enjoy Japanese-Korean fusion cuisine at Yoruchu.

American cinema

15 of the best female assassin movies as John Wick spin-off Ballerina lands

From Black Widow and Kill Bill to Red Sparrow, Hero and La Femme Nikita, these films showcase some of cinema’s most deadly femmes fatales.

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Giselle by Hong Kong Ballet a lavish spectacle, and company’s dancers shine

Guest artists Marianela Nuñez and Matthew Ball were excellent in the leading roles, with the HKB cast also impressing when their turn came.

Marianela Nuñez and Matthew Ball in the premiere of Hong Kong Ballet’s Giselle. Photo: Conrad Dy-Liacco, courtesy of Hong Kong Ballet
Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong, June 1-7

Savour Korean cuisine at HANU’s pop-up, explore Hong Kong in qipaos, view artworks at Villepin, and sip unique cocktails at 25:00 speakeasy.

The tram experience includes qipao rental from Yan Shang Kee. Photo: courtesy Lanson Place
Art

Make of it what you will, artist On Kawara’s work on show in Hong Kong

Lists. Paintings of random dates. Telegrams that say the same thing. Explore Japan-born conceptual artist’s oeuvre at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun.

Food and Drinks

Drink in Focus: Redemption at Orchard

The Hong Kong bar’s take on the negroni uses prune brandy to accent notes of strawberry, chocolate and hazelnut.

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