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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Tiffany Blue Box Café at Lee Gardens Three in Causeway Bay is opening this week. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 12-14

Culinary director Jarrod Verbiak in the process of making the Scotch egg at Avalon. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Dish in Focus: Scotch egg at Avalon

Gokan’s Geisha Espresso Martini from its latest series of signatures. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 11-13

Socio’s collaboration with Avallen yields three drinks, all called the Apple, but with different flavour profiles. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 4-6

Punch Room at The Tokyo Edition, Ginza, is one of numerous wonderful bars in the Japanese district. Photo: Handout

Our guide to Ginza’s best cocktail bars, from Little Smith to Tender

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In her new cookbook Everyone Hot Pot, James Beard Award-nominated pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz shares hotpot recipes inspired by different regions of China while encouraging readers to get creative. Photo: Alex Lau
Food and Drinks

An American pastry chef reinvents the hotpot with immigrant-inspired twists

Inspired by her cross-cultural upbringing, Natasha Pickowicz breaks traditional hotpot rules to blend regional Chinese styles with new ingredients.

Food and Drinks

7 top places for sticky rice dumplings in Hong Kong for the Dragon Boat Festival

Food and Drinks

What are alkaline rice dumplings, the Dragon Boat Festival sweet treat?

Asia travel

Best things to do in Wuxi, China’s lakeside city of gardens and sweet cuisine

Nestled on China’s Lake Taihu, Wuxi, with its industrial heritage, serene gardens, temples and decadent cuisine, is great for a weekend trip.

Tourists stroll around a historical district in Wuxi. The city on the shores of Lake Taihu in China’s Jiangsu province is known for its canals, temples, peaceful gardens and decadent cuisine that reflects its wealthy industrial past. Photo: Shutterstock
Food and Drinks

Where to go for delicious steak and Italian in Hong Kong? Omakase chef reveals

Zinc Leung, chef-owner of Sushi Zinc in Hong Kong, shares his favourite restaurants for steak, Italian, roast goose, seafood and more.

Food and Drinks

The magic of mushrooms, from foraging to fine dining

Taschen’s coffee-table book The Gourmand’s Mushroom looks at how fungi are portrayed in art, literature and music, and explores the health benefits of various species.

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Chinese photographers serve a visual feast at World Food Photography Awards 2026

Hotpot feasts, communal banquets and street food scenes were the highlights from Chinese photographers during this year’s competition.

A family preparing red glutinous rice cakes for Chinese New Year in Putian, Fujian province, China. The photo was featured in the annual World Food Photography Awards. Photo: Chen Ying/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Bimi
US-China relations

How Chinese drink chains are testing the limits of soft power

New tea and coffee brands from China are winning customers across America, but their broader influence remains unclear.

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Food and Drinks

Prawn toast as a Scotch egg? How UK chefs are reinventing a Cantonese classic

A beloved Chinese restaurant dish across Britain, Cantonese prawn toast is being transformed in ways that must be tasted to be believed.

Food and Drinks

15 new Hong Kong restaurants to try in June 2026, from pizza to ramen

New openings include a Neapolitan pizzeria, a Tokyo ramen chain’s outpost, an Argentinian steakhouse and a modern Chinese dessert bar.

The mortadella and pistachio pizza at Fugazzi Pizzeria Napoletana, a new Neapolitan pizzeria in Kai Tak. Check out this and our other new Hong Kong restaurant recommendations in June 2026. Photo: Fugazzi Pizzeria Napoletana
Food and Drinks

This legendary Chinese snake soup was all but lost. How 2 chefs are reviving it

Once the centrepiece of political and business gatherings, Taishi five-snake soup is making a return in a form more suited to the modern era.

A complex soup of wu yu dan, or cuttlefish “roe”, created by chefs Li Chi-wai and Dong Zhenxiang that harkens back to the legendary Taishi five-snake soup that Dong once tried. Photo: Rosewood Hong Kong
Trending in China

How tofu evolved from a chance find to one of China’s most prized culinary symbols

Ancient alchemists who stumbled across soybean curd while searching for an elixir of life created a foodstuff which has global appeal today.

Trending in China

China barbecue chain refunds diners US$162,000 for ‘not properly grilled’ food

Lamb skewer eatery says cooking glitch caused by new grilling equipment; offers money back deal despite getting no complaints from diners.

Food and Drinks

Where to go for ‘real’ Italian, ‘funky’ Japanese in Hong Kong? This CEO knows

Pak-man Lee of Hong Kong design shop Nuovo shares where he enjoys Japanese bites, real Italian dishes and Thai food on the beach.

Mackerel sushi at Tomokazu Japanese Restaurant in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighbourhood, one of Nuovo CEO and creative director Pak-man Lee’s favourite places to eat in Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP
Food and Drinks

95-year-old dim sum chef launches menu of forgotten items in Hong Kong

Foo Shing looks back on an astonishing life as he opens up about items featured in Tim Ho Wan’s nostalgic dim sum series.

Dim sum chef Foo Shing (left) shares a laugh with Cheung Yat-sing, global product innovation director at Tim Ho Wan. The Hong Kong dim sum restaurant chain has launched a nostalgic dim sum series based on Foo’s recipes. Photo: Tim Ho Wan
Books and literature

Hong Kong author Kit Fan on ‘reverse migration’, identity and his new novel

The UK-based writer, whose Goodbye Chinatown follows a food-centric family between Hong Kong and London, talks about how places change people.

Food and Drinks

A Vietnamese-American’s quest to make the perfect Peking duck

Radiologist Hong Pham’s dedication to making roast duck has seen him start his own catering business and even cook the bird at weddings.

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Inside Shenzhen’s evolving culinary scene

Once infamous as a hub for counterfeit goods and cheap spa treatments, China’s Silicon Valley has matured into a gastronomic destination.

Shenzhen, as seen from MO Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

The Hong Kong chefs serving up East-West fusion food without the stigma

We meet three Hong Kong restaurant pioneers who are elevating the maligned food trend by serving French and Nordic dishes with Asian accents.

Food and Drinks

The story of Snow Garden, Hong Kong restaurant loved by the rich and famous

Frequented by people such as Run Run Shaw, Jet Li’s wife Nina Li Chi and Macau’s Stanley Ho, Snow Garden continues to delight Hongkongers.

Food and Drinks

A food critic’s top Hong Kong restaurants for sushi, Cantonese and Chiu Chow

Entertainment journalist Eileen Cha, who grew up on Cantonese and Hunanese food, says she has a split personality palate.

Ho Ho Chak, which means “delicious” in the Teochew dialect, is a popular Chiu Chow restaurant in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui district.
Trending in China

Jensen Huang’s China noodle shop visit prompts launch of ‘leather jacket’ set meal

Nvidia boss wolfs down signature noodle dish as crowds throng eatery; stops short of finishing cup of popular but ‘pungent’ fermented soy drink.

Jensen Huang’s recent visit to a spicy noodle shop in Beijing has prompted the eatery to launch a unique ‘leather jacket’ set meal. Photo: Weibo
Food and Drinks

Meet the Hong Kong chefs doing Japanese food with a Cantonese twist

For generations, local diners expected Cantonese chefs to play supporting roles to a Japanese head chef – but now that is changing.

2026 Xi-Trump summits

Video | Executive chef offers insight into Xi-Trump banquet

The state banquet menu blended Chinese cuisine and Western favourites, with a nod to the US president’s personal tastes.

Food and Drinks

3 young chefs helping to define Shenzhen’s new fine dining wave

The city is known for cheap weekend eats, but a new contingent of young chefs is now burnishing its reputation for fine dining too.

Culinary creativity at Fumée in Shenzhen. Photo: Handout
Food and Drinks

What to eat in China’s Chengdu, from fiery hotpot to the original mapo tofu

A reflection of Sichuan’s diverse flavours and culinary heritage, Chengdu’s food and drinks scene rewards the adventurous.

Taolin restaurant’s signature mao xue wang – silken duck blood curd and snappy tripe submerged in an oil-slicked broth dense with chillies and peppercorns. Photo: Pin Yen Tan
Food and Drinks

Japanese, Korean, Chinese: a guitarist-restaurateur’s top Hong Kong eats

Joey Pui, executive manager of Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant and guitarist for Zarahn, reveals his picks for lunch and drinks in Hong Kong.

Food and Drinks

Hong Kong’s Big JJ Seafood Hotpot gets fancy in new Central location

Founder Peter Pang talks about how he is not following any traditional formulas as he pushes his brand beyond its expected target customers.

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