The Black Pearl Restaurant Guide 2025, published by Meituan – China’s largest shopping platform – was unveiled at a ceremony held in the Chinese city of Nanchang on January 6. Compared to last year, the number of restaurants selected in Hong Kong and Macau in the 2025 guide has increased. There are 37 Hong Kong … 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
