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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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A flattened chicken head at Alchemist, in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed to be held by the beak and eaten in its entirety. Photo: courtesy Alchemist
Food and Drinks

Michelin chefs in Europe are embracing China’s culinary repertoire

Japan has long been a major source of culinary inspiration in the West, but the gaze is shifting to other Asian cuisines.

Trending in China

Posh China restaurant offers ‘authentic’ US$540 meals with elephant dung desserts

Singapore

Singapore’s flavour face-off: mainland Chinese cuisine vs local food culture

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Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: Yardbird founders’ new concept and Wong Fei-hung

Matt Abergel and Lindsay Jang have opened Always Joy, an intimate izakaya, while Lala Curio is showing its wallpaper collection at The Peninsula.

Matt Abergel and Lindsay Jang, at their new izakaya Always Joy in Sheung Wan. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Trending in China

Hong Kong star Nicholas Tse sells sausages online, earns US$207 million in 4 years

Food brand of entertainment icon earns nationwide sales champion tag as actor takes active role in production, promotion of ‘high quality’ bangers.

Asia travel

China’s salt capital was built on the white gold, as was its cuisine

The spiciest city in spicy Sichuan, Zigong was once home to an empire of salt and has a history of high- and low-end cuisine, starting with ‘Toilet Rabbit’.

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Food and Drinks

The XO factor: international appeal of a famed Cantonese sauce

Hong Kong’s beloved signature sauce is glazing the menus at Michelin-starred Western restaurants around the world.

From left, dried shrimp, Jinhua ham (Chinese dried ham) and dried scallop, served with XO sauce on top. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

Hong Kong’s 132-year-old tofu restaurant where people go silly for soy

At Michelin-recognised Kung Wo Beancurd Factory in Sham Shui Po, soy products from tofu pudding to soy milk are made fresh on site.

Japan

‘Malicious’ Japan TV clip claiming Chinese eat crows ruffles feathers in China

A freelance producer had manipulated the clip for maximum entertainment value, network claimed.

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China society

Profile | China film honours ‘Dumpling Queen’ from street vendor to food empire founder

At her lowest point, Zang Jianhe, who lacked formal education, endured hardships of working basic jobs for nearly 20 hours a day.

The film pays tribute to the “Dumpling Queen”, chronicling her inspiring journey from street vendor to the founder of a billion-dollar empire. Photo: SCMP composite/Weibo/Sohu
Food and Drinks

Mouthing Off | I don’t care if it’s not posh, give me more food pictures on menus

‘Buddha Jumps Over the Wall’? What’s that? Restaurants should use more visuals in their menus, and maybe that could help draw more people in.

A customer selects dishes from the menu at a Café de Coral branch at Uptown Plaza in Tai Po, Hong Kong. Fast food chains rely on visuals to help their customers order - could more upmarket establishments also benefit? Photo: Eugene Lee
Trending in China

Chinese eatery sells spicy bamboo sticks for US$1.4, favoured by women diners

Following the introduction of this dish, sales skyrocketed, averaging over 100 servings per day and 30 per cent rise in customer visits.

Food and Drinks

Cantonese meets Catalan: Spanish cuisine in Hong Kong

To the untrained eye, Cantonese and Catalan cuisines might seem a world apart, but with their focus on the freshest ingredients cooked simply and for sharing, they are more alike than they are unalike.

Trending in China

China eatery sells half chicken ‘raised on music, milk’ for US$66, triggers taunts

Eatery says succulent ‘sunflower chicken’ which is popular with Michelin-starred chefs is made from birds raised ‘listening to classical music’.

A restaurant in China has sparked sarcasm online after it claimed that an expensive chicken dish is costly because the birds used are raised listening to music and drinking milk. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Jimu
Hong Kong society

Letters | Dim sum: a Hong Kong cultural icon calling out for a makeover

Readers discuss reinventing the dim sum dining experience, and how the city can present a welcoming face to tourists.

Customers enjoy the traditional dim sum experience at Lin Heung Lau in Central, Hong Kong, on October 4, 2024. Photo: Alexander Mak
Food and Drinks

Profile | Chinese-Canadian chef impresses Dubai with ‘third culture’, ‘borderless’ cooking

At Jun’s in Dubai, Kelvin Cheung’s ‘borderless’ cooking draws on influences from the Philippines to India for ‘completely original’ dishes.

Food and Drinks

Profile | Chinese food? Hong Kong-born chef Tony Mok is redefining it

After working at lauded Michelin-star Hong Kong restaurants including Amber and Mono, young chef is finding his own voice.

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Food and Drinks

Chinese cuisine in the Yukon answers the call of the wild

Swapping urban China for the Yukon in Canada’s far north allowed Matthew Bossons to hunt and harvest the abundant bounty of the region, and adapt the cuisine of his Chinese wife’s homeland to their new surroundings.

Matthew Bossons’ northern Canada take on Lanzhou lamian, featuring meat from a bull moose hunted and harvested by Bossons and friend Jim Elliot. Photo: Crystal Schick
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: senior ballerinas, Canadian-Chinese fusion and more

Age is no barrier to new adventures, as HK Ballet’s Silver Ballet programme shows. Plus, creative home solutions and Indian palaces reimagined as hotels.

Art

Explore China’s culinary heritage at the Hong Kong Palace Museum

Discover artworks and national treasures tracing the Chinese culinary evolution from Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty, until June 18.

Food and Drinks

2025 Hong Kong, Macau Michelin guide adds 10 ‘value for money’ restaurants

Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition has been extended to 77 restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau in dining guide’s 2025 edition.

At Juno, chef Jordi Vallés Claverol from Barcelona serves a concise Mediterranean-inspired menu. Photo: Instagram/junohongkong
Food and Drinks

Profile | Bruce Lee was her aunt’s dishwasher. Chef Angie Mar on a life in food

A Chinese-American chef who ‘can’t really cook Chinese food’, Angie Mar of New York’s Le B on her roots in food and not cooking for critics.

Peking duck bao at Mar’s Lunar New Year Party 2025. Photo: Wynn Las Vegas
Trending in China

4 bizarre China dishes to challenge palates – ox dung hotpot, rabbit heads

From milky ant eggs to Americano coffee made with deep-fried worms and excrement hotpot, China is home to strange dishes.

Old Hong Kong

Then & Now | How reverse migration turned pigeon into a culinary staple in Hong Kong

Often considered ‘rats of the sky’, pigeons became a popular choice for food in Hong Kong in the early 20th century because of their easy breeding.

Trending in China

This gold hotpot costs US$97,000, but does it make food taste better?

Luxury pot made out of precious metal ordered by customer in China amid surging price of gold provokes shock on social media.

A hotpot bowl made of pure gold which costs US$97,000 to buy has shocked social media in China. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Food and Drinks

Mingles becomes only three-Michelin-star restaurant in South Korea

Chef Kang Min-goo is emotional as his modern Korean restaurant achieves the ultimate accolade in the Michelin Guide Seoul & Busan 2025.

Strawberry, sancho pepper, and caviar at Mingles restaurant in Seoul. Photo: Instagram/mingles_restaurant
Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 28 – March 2

Indulge in a modern Indian feast, a spring bento brunch or a pan-Chinese tasting menu this weekend.

Trending in China

China funeral home noodles draw diners pretending to be families for access

Fascination begins after local blogger posts glowing review sparking flood of visitors, calling the best noodles they’ve ever tasted.

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