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100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2025 Restaurant Directory
Shenzhen, as seen from MO Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen. Photo: Handout

Inside Shenzhen’s evolving culinary scene

The Bamboo is one of Bar Anima’s signature cocktails. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Drink in Focus: Bamboo at Bar Anima

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

Scallop Pie Tee & Crab Bao at Whey. Photo: Handout

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 5-7

The claypot rice dish at Hong Kong’s Isseki Niaji melds Cantonese banqueting traditions with tastes of Osaka. Photo: Handout

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

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Pillowy steamed buns are filled with charcoal-grilled smoked pork belly and a classic Alsace choucroute. Photo: Racines
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New chef of Hong Kong’s Racines blends Cantonese flair with French finesse

Chef Leung Chun-wah has taken over from Romain Dupeyre and is bringing his own culinary culture to Michelin-star restaurant Racines.

Asia travel

What to do in Furano, a little-known summer haven on Japan’s Hokkaido island

Wellness

The magic of mushrooms, from foraging to fine dining

100 Top Tables

Unsung Eats: 5 best places to eat in Uluwatu, Bali

From wood-fired barbecue feasts to Indonesian classics like nasi goreng with a seaside view, Uluwatu’s dining scene deserves a place on your Bali itinerary.

Uluwatu’s dining scene has grown well beyond beachside warungs to encompass some of Bali’s most exciting restaurants. Photos: Artisan; Masonry; Papi Sapi
Chinese cuisine

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.

Japan

Where did Tokyo restaurant Sézanne’s 3 Michelin stars go?

After Daniel Calvert’s high-profile exit, Sézanne is being reassessed by Michelin as new chef Stephen Lancaster reshapes the restaurant’s menu.

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United States

Inside the crazy New York queues where people wait for hours for Insta-cred

In the US’ biggest city, queuing at the latest hotspots ‘signals taste, knowledge and stamina’, an academic says.

People queue outside Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City on May 15. Photo: AFP
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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Chinese cuisine

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.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s pizza scene heats up with 2 new world-class pizzerias

Two of the world’s best pizza restaurants are opening Hong Kong branches, heating up competition in the city’s already bustling pizza scene.

Chef Vincenzo Capuano’s eponymous brand of pizza restaurants opened its first Hong Kong outpost in May, in Wan Chai.
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Drink in Focus: Bamboo at Bar Anima

The bar’s signature cocktail, a classic reimagined with dry sherry, vermouth and bitters, also highlights the evolution of Hong Kong mixology.

The Bamboo is one of Bar Anima’s signature cocktails. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

Mouthing Off | Why do we need so many pots and pans in Hong Kong’s tiny kitchens?

From woks and griddles to skillets and sauciers, many people own far too much cookware – some items never even get used.

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Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for June 4-6

Socio collaborates with Avallen on apple-themed cocktails, Beefbar hosts Macau’s Two Moons, and K11 Musea throws a party to conclude its Sky Bar.

Where to eat in Hong Kong

Where to go for amazing steak and seafood in Hong Kong? Food influencer reveals

Jen Balisi, founder of modern Filipino restaurant Barkada in Hong Kong, gives her top picks for steak, noodles, pasta and more in the city.

Jen Balisi is a food influencer and the founder of Filipino restaurant Barkada in Hong Kong. She reveals her top places to eat in Hong Kong and beyond. Photo: Jen Balisi
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Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for June 5-7

Fill your weekend with celebratory anniversary menus at Belon and Whey, plus a citywide burger showdown from Feather & Bone.

Scallop Pie Tee & Crab Bao at Whey. Photo: Handout
China’s private sector

The big scoop: lemon tea chain to revamp Haagen-Dazs’ struggling China business

General Mills is offloading the ice cream brand’s mainland China stores, as foreign businesses revamp models amid heated domestic competition.

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Social media

This Edinburgh Chinese takeaway is ‘dying’. Meet the daughter out to save it

Opened in 1997, China Star has weeks to turn things around before it sinks. Can the founder’s Instagrammer daughter Lisa He serve up success?

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Hong Kong

5 new cafes and coffee shops to try in Hong Kong in June 2026

From Blue Bottle Coffee’s new branch and Sang Roastery’s airport outpost to a newcomer in Sham Shui Po, here are 5 cafes to stay cool at.

Blue Bottle Coffee’s Kyoto-style espresso is exclusively available at its new branch at Cityplaza in Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong. It is one of five new cafes opening in June 2026 where caffeine fans can go to escape the heat. Photo: Blue Bottle Coffee
K-pop, Mandopop, other Asian pop

Oreo and BTS launch purple cookies in new K-pop collaboration

Oreo spent two years developing the BTS cookies, which have centres that taste like hotteok, a popular Korean street food pancake.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong-style cha chaan teng cafes thrive globally as Gen-Z embraces nostalgic dining

Cha chaan teng were built on reinvention and resourcefulness. Now, as a new generation claims them for the digital age, PostMag finds everyone hungry for more.

Penfolds returns to France

An Australian wine icon returns to France

Penfolds’ growing portfolio in France reflects a philosophy of innovation and uncompromising quality, anchored by its long-standing tradition of experimentation and pushing boundaries.

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(From left) Tom King, managing director; Steph Dutton, director of winemaking; Peter Gago, chief winemaker; and Kristy Keyte, chief marketing officer at Château Lanessan in Bordeaux. Photo: Courtesy of Penfolds
Mainland China

Why Korean rice wine could be the next big drink in Hong Kong and mainland China

There’s a ‘big gap’ in the market for the ancient tipple, one bar owner says, as more restaurants add Korean rice wines to their menus.

Sky Oh, the founder of Hong Kong-based Korean alcohol distributor Fermentation Heaven, is surrounded by a variety of Korean drinks, including Korean rice wine. Her company recently provided Korean rice wines for an event at Shenzhen’s Otheroof. Photo: Sky Oh
Hong Kong dining & recommendations

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.

Taiwan

Discover Tainan’s culinary renaissance at Yudao

Yudao in Tainan: chef Nick Yang’s ‘New Taiwanese’ fine-dining restaurant celebrates local produce, indigenous heritage, Dutch-Japanese history and sunset-soaked island serenity.

Hong Kong

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
100 Top Tables

Dish in Focus: Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud

Terrace Boulud’s Aurélie Altemaire turns a Lyonnais pâté en croûte into a 4-day exercise that rewards time, precision and a chef’s instinct for balance.

Pâté en croûte i caille at Terrace Boulud in Hong Kong. Photos: Jocelyn Tam
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, May 29-31

See Mads Mikkelsen and other stars at Hong Kong Comic Con 2026, indulge in a two-day wellness retreat, watch top cabaret shows and more.

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Macau

On the Menu | French dining but not as we know it at Vicky Cheng’s Estuary in Macau

Vicky Cheng blends healing ingredients with French finesse and Asian touches at his new restaurant Estuary at Macau’s Capella hotel.

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