Hong Kong is gearing up for Chinese New Year and special holiday food is showing up everywhere from supermarket shelves to wet market stalls. There’s one thing you absolutely can’t miss: nin4 gou1 (年糕), the sweet, chewy glutinous rice cake that is essential to the Cantonese celebration of the lunar new year. Literally meaning New Year Cake, this […]...
Hong Kong’s colonial history found its way into a mix of butter, sugar and lard. Discover a place that takes the essence of Hong Kong and bakes it into golden brown buns....
The changes started years ago, but it was only when the giant cow disappeared that it became clear what was happening. In 2015, the bovine emblem of Queen’s Road West restaurant Sammy’s Kitchen was removed, an iconic piece of neon scrubbed from the street it had dominated for 40 years. The cow was taken away […]...
There are more local breweries at this year's Beertopia craft beer festival than ever before – and some are making distinctively Hong Kong-flavoured brews. ...
Josh and Caleb Ng don’t have interests – they have projects. A few years ago, at a friend’s dinner party, the twin brothers were captivated by a beer made with Amarillo hops, a rich, malty brew with hints of peach and orange. They began buying craft beer, which led them to one Danish brand they found […]...
Ever wonder where some of the words we use everyday in Hong Kong lingo come from? How a kind of food came to define an entire social class in Hong Kong....
