Get ready for a new year of eating opportunities. After a challenging 2024 that nevertheless saw a consistent stream of restaurant and bar openings, 2025 looks poised to begin with a bang, with plenty of newcomers on the horizon. With Lunar New Year falling at the end of January, it’s also a good time to … Read more
Alvin Leung, Hong Kong’s “demon chef” and founder of Bo Innovation and Cafe Bau, recently starred in a new Netflix cooking competition series called The Maverick Academy. He spoke to Andrew Sun. My mum was a horrible cook so I ate a lot of instant noodles. I started to cook for myself as a teenager. … Read more
“I wanted to tell people that there were more parts like this in Hong Kong probably 50 years ago. I would say up to the 1970s, there was still a lot of farmland. At its peak, this place used to have around 1,000 residents who farmed,” says Cafe Bau’s executive chef, Alvin Leung, gesturing into … Read more
