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100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
100 Top Tables 2024 Restaurant Directory
Auspicious dishes of Ming Pavilion at Island Shangri-La Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Where to dine in style this Chinese New Year in Hong Kong

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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
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.

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

Food and Drinks

Cantonese meets Catalan: Spanish cuisine in Hong Kong

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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.

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.

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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.

Tony Mok at Path. He has worked at both Amber and Mono. Photo: Sun Yeung
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.

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.

A Night Banquet at Peach and Plum Garden by Ding Guanpeng, from the Qing dynasty. Photo: The Palace Museum
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.

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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.

A rooftop pigeon breeding farm in Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, in 1988. Photo: SCMP Archives
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.

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.

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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.

A funeral home in China has gained fame for its delicious rice noodles. Photo: SCMP composite/Sohu/Douyin
Food and Drinks

Wines from Ningxia, China get perfect food pairings at Hong Kong dinner

Chardonnay with chicken skin, Marselan with wagyu – how Ningxia’s best wines go with food is focus of event celebrating rising wine region.

Food and Drinks

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for February 21-23

Enjoy locally sourced omakase, a Chinese wine pairing dinner, Chiu Chow hotpot and special Japanese collaborations this weekend.

Food and Drinks

Opinion | How a Chinese takeaway kid grew to appreciate her family’s sacrifices

For Ginny Wong, the older and the further away from takeaway life she has got, the more she has realised what her family gave up for her.

(From left) Writer Ginny Wong’s cousin, younger brother and uncle pose for a photo at her uncle’s takeaway in England in 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the Wong family
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Chinese dishes stand test of time – dumplings, Peking duck, kung pao chicken

Food from ancient and not-so-ancient times has seen cuisine from across China appear on tables at home and abroad to this day.

The Post runs the rule over some Chinese dishes from ancient times that remain hugely popular today. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock
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US mum thanks ‘beautiful’ RedNote community for 3,000 Chinese dish ideas for son

Mexican-American mother says Chinese RedNote users have given her autistic son a new lease of life when it comes to enjoying eggs.

Food and Drinks

Why Chinese people eat spring rolls to celebrate Lunar New Year

The clue is in their name: spring rolls are eaten year round, but particularly at new year because their colour and shape evoke gold bars.

Food and Drinks

How ginger transforms dishes, from China to Chicago

Pastry chef Jacky Lee Shing-lam likes ginger’s warming notes, which include many chemicals useful to our bodies, as Dr Vivian Chen, founder of Plateful Health, and Dr Jamie Bering, of the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explain.

Chinese-American food writer Kevin Pang and health experts weigh in on the benefits of ginger. Photo: Getty Images
Food and Drinks

Chinese-American graphic novel cookbook author on its inspiration

Ying Chang Compestine often explained the names of Chinese dishes to American friends. Then she hit upon a fun way to do so in a cookbook.

Prolific author Ying Chang Compestine, who was written a graphic novel Chinese cookbook with illustrations by UK-based artist Vivian Truong. Photo: Instagram/yingchangcompestine
Food and Drinks

Why glutinous rice cakes are considered lucky at Lunar New Year

The history of nian gao according to Chinese legend, and how the rice cakes are eaten to mark new year in Hong Kong, mainland China, Korea and Japan.

Food and Drinks

Mouthing Off | Is snake soup medicinal? IDK. I’m just a sucker for hot broth in winter

As Year of the Snake begins, Hong Kong snake restaurants are packed. Snake soup is to Chinese people what chicken soup is to other cultures.

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