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Restaurant review

Dragon Noodles Academy

With the growing obsession of Instagram, Snapchat and other photo-centric social media platforms, have you noticed how many restaurants insist on making sure their dishes are ‘Insta-worthy’, often giving this priority over the actual taste of the dish? Thankfully, thereRead more

LEE Lo Mei

With the three restaurants that ZS Hospitality opened at No. 8 Lyndhurst Terrace in quick succession last year (Ee Da Le, My Thai Thai and Mamasita’s Cantina), the group has covered quite a lot of the globe in one primeRead more

Arcane’s Meat-Free Monday Menu

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Arcane was one of the first restaurants I visited last year (see previous review here) and, despite it being only February and still having 11 months of reviewing restaurants before the end of the year, it was so delicious thatRead more

TokyoLima

I was pretty devastated when Hong Kong lost its only Peruvian restaurant last year, particularly during those times, of which there were many, when all I wanted was an authentic Peruvian Pisco Sour. So when I heard that Pirata GroupRead more

The Iron Fairies

Do you believe in magic? If not, you probably haven’t been to The Iron Fairies. Brought to us by famed Australian designer Ashley Sutton in collaboration with Dining Concepts, The Iron Fairies is an enchanting new bar that opened towardsRead more

Before the Rooster Comes the Egg

What came first, the rooster or the egg? As we prepare for the Year of the Rooster here in Hong Kong, several of the city’s most popular restaurants are celebrating in their own way – through a feast of eggs.Read more

Top 10 restaurants of 2016 – Final List!

Happy new year! I’m still getting my head around the fact that it’s now 2017 and yet another year has whizzed past! Wasn’t it 1999 just the other day?! 2016 wasn’t just any old year though – it was aRead more

Djapa

If you’ve ever walked down Wan Chai’s Lee Tung Avenue, you will already have felt that sensation of being far removed from Hong Kong, as this tree-lined, pedestrianised street, with colourful, European-style buildings is not something you come across oftenRead more

Scarlett Cafe and Wine Bar

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If you ask someone to travel from Central to Tsim Sha Tsui, they’ll probably look at you as if you had asked them to travel to the other side of the world. That said, travelling across the harbour on theRead more

Commissary

Yenn Wong of JIA Group seems to be unstoppable this year. After adding Mak Mak and Rhoda to her collection of successful restaurants, she has most recently opened Commissary, a Southern Californian restaurant in Pacific Place. On the concourseRead more