What does a scent say about your personality or even cultural identity? Quite a lot, according to the fragrance industry. For example, Hongkongers used to have a penchant for English perfumes such as Jo Malone and Penhaligon’s, due to the city’s past as a British colony, says Patrick Hui, founder of Hong Kong perfume store … Read more
A veteran curator of major arts and design exhibitions and fairs, Dr Grace Lau is the fair director of Fine Art Asia and co-chair of the Polytechnic University school of design’s 60th anniversary activities, including a gala dinner on November 29 at the Cloud 39 ballroom in The Henderson. She spoke to Andrew Sun. My … Read more
The Young Chef Young Waiter Young Mixologist (YYY) competition recently crowned its Hong Kong winners. Chef Angus Wong Chun-kei of Amber, waiter Tony To Long-him of Central Japanese restaurant Godenya and bartender Evan Mak Siu-nam of Argo will represent Hong Kong in the 2024 world final in November. The contest, also known as the Olympics … Read more
When we speak in June, Ekkebus has just returned from a mountaineering expedition – a three-week trip in Ecuador to climb Chimborazo and Cotopaxi, the latter an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, whose summits are 6,263 metres (20,547ft) and 5,897 metres above sea level respectively. Chef Richard Ekkebus on Cotopaxi, Ecuador, during a recent … Read more
NEW DELHI: Chinese researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper claiming to have found a prehistoric tapeworm partially intact inside a sample of 100-million-year-old mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber in Myanmar. According to the scientists, the discovery of a tapeworm from this era is extremely uncommon … Read more
Would you wait three months for a pizza? That is how long it normally takes to get a reservation at The Pizza Bar on 38th at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, considered one of the finest pizzerias in Asia. The concept has taken over the private rooms at Amber, in the Landmark Mandarin hotel in Central, … Read more
