Single-origin coffee from Yunnan in China, known for Pu-erh tea, finds fans...
Famous for its tea, Pu’er in Yunnan has become China’s coffee capital, not only supplying roasters such as Nestlé and Starbucks but producing high-quality speciality beans.
View ArticleForget Kendall Jenner’s tequila and try sotol, raicilla or bacanora – 3...
July 24 is National Tequila Day in the US, but instead of drinking shots of tequila or mescal, why not try three lesser known Mexican agave spirits – bacanora, raicilla and sotol?
View ArticleCaviar is on everything in Hong Kong, from dim sum to ice cream – but why is...
After a brief dip in sales of caviar during Covid-19, ‘black gold’ is back with a vengeance. Whether clogging our social media feeds or piled atop ice cream and dim sum, it’s everywhere.
View ArticleSparkling tea is summer 2022’s drink of choice, not champagne – it’s perfect...
Sparkling tea is the drink of summer 2022 and Hong Kong makers are getting in on the action with their own versions – among them one made with green tea, wild rose and collagen for more radiant skin.
View Article4 ways to pick a good wine: leave your usual chardonnay and sauvignon blanc...
If you are feeling uninspired, it’s time to change your wine drinking habits. Pick up some new wines, try new grape types, and be adventurous.
View ArticleFrom the Aztecs to avo, the scoop on ‘avocado’ and ‘guacamole’– its tropical...
Avocados are found all around the world, but their origins are in Central America. The Aztecs called them āhuacatl, and guacamole is derived from combining that word and the Aztecs’ word for sauce,...
View ArticleDurian on pizza, in curry, quiche and chicken soup – chefs in Hong Kong serve...
The flesh of the pungent ‘king of fruits’ is often seen in desserts, but chefs in Hong Kong have added it to savoury dishes such as salami pizza, fish curry, cottage pie, chicken rolls and...
View ArticleChinese recipes and ‘stories of our culture’ in Chinese-Ish – but don’t think...
Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu represent the cultures that shaped their appetites in their cookbook Chinese-Ish: Home Cooking, Not Quite Authentic, 100% Delicious.
View ArticleHong Kong’s Happy Cake Shop may be gone, but bakeries are everywhere around...
From Sour Dough to Gerard Dubois, Eric Kayser’s French bakeries and physicist-turned-baker Li Kwok-cheung’s Levain, shoppers for bread and pastries in Wan Chai are spoiled for choice.
View ArticleSpam, adored by Asians, is no longer the ‘secret shame’ you dare not admit to...
Chefs and foodies alike are unequivocal in their opinion of Spam – they love it, and they aren’t afraid to say so. Since when did it become trendy to like a food once considered a shameful secret?
View Article‘What if Elon Musk were a baker?’: Bakehouse bakery chain co-founder on...
As Hong Kong bakery-cafe chain Bakehouse enters its fourth year and prepares for the opening of a fifth branch, co-founder Grégoire Michaud talks to Charmaine Mok about its rise and why he is anti-fame.
View ArticleMasterChef wannabes and the wildly implausible meals they ‘whip up’ at home –...
A group of foodie millennials trying to one-up each other with the gastronomical miracles they ‘whip up’ on the regular – yeah, right.
View Article‘Heirloom rice has huge potential’: Korean chef and farmers on a chewy,...
For all the interest in South Korea in organic and health foods, heritage rice is unlikely to be more than a niche product, a grower and a researcher admit. Still, a brewery is using it to brew beer...
View ArticleHead to your favourite restaurants, bars and cafes before they close for good...
The next time you pass by your favourite restaurant, bar or cafe, go in – you never know when it might suddenly close and be lost to you forever.
View ArticleThe best boat party drinks: stop buying from 7-Eleven for your junk trip –...
Cans of beer and bottles of Absolut from 7-Eleven are standard junk boat fare in Hong Kong – but you can, with very little effort and time, make your on-board bar so much better with home-made drinks.
View ArticleUmami fermented fish sauce a top pick of chefs from Southeast Asia to Italy...
Umami, or ‘the fifth taste’, has been achieved for millennia by fermenting seafood. Today it’s no different – we meet chefs who are using fermented fish sauces for the ultimate flavour kick.
View ArticleDon’t save that special wine for ‘another time’– you might not have the...
You’re not getting any younger, and those wines you ‘put away for another time’ won’t drink themselves. It’s time to seize the corkscrew, live life to the full and enjoy.
View ArticleDoughnuts, scones, cheesecake: three Instagram bakeries in Hong Kong share...
You open Instagram and order bombolone from Dough Beings, scones from Grandma’s Scones and cheesecake from Ch.eese Department. Now meet the people behind these Hong Kong online bakeries.
View ArticleChinese sweet dessert soups - why the hate? Tong sui is complex, delicious...
Sweet soup is an unfamiliar concept for non-Asian audiences, which leads to Chinese dessert soup getting a bad rap. However, tong sui is complex, delicious, and not too sweet after all.
View ArticleFrom coffee hazelnut to sweet potato mochi, mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival...
Mid-Autumn Festival is around the corner, and that means mooncakes. We pick eight Hong Kong producers offering some novel – but not weird – takes on the traditional treat.
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