5 Shenzhen restaurants, bars, cafes for your next visit, for French-Chinese food and more

5 Shenzhen restaurants, bars, cafes for your next visit, for French-Chinese food and more

For Hong Kong residents looking for somewhere new to enjoy food and fun without the need to travel far, Shenzhen has emerged as a convenient playground. The city was once considered a backwater, but then a tech and industrial boom changed everything. Many of China’s young, upwardly mobile professionals flooded into the city, leading to … Read more

How baijiu, China’s ‘white spirit’, stopped being uncool thanks to hip cocktail bars that are making it part of a new ‘drinking language’

How baijiu, China’s ‘white spirit’, stopped being uncool thanks to hip cocktail bars that are making it part of a new ‘drinking language’

“After the break, a lot of people asked for my WeChat details,” he says, before admitting that only a few of these contacts came to fruition. “But what this means to me is that the brands want to do something but aren’t sure where to start.” Bastien Ciocca is the co-founder of bars Hope & … Read more

Why a Chinese-Canadian food writer has made Hong Kong cocktail bar Kinsman a shrine to Cantonese liquor – to revive the city’s ‘forgotten history’

Why a Chinese-Canadian food writer has made Hong Kong cocktail bar Kinsman a shrine to Cantonese liquor – to revive the city’s ‘forgotten history’

The line-up includes snake wine from Hong Kong restaurant Ser Wong Fun, a snake soup specialist, mui gwai lo, a rose-scented sorghum spirit commonly used in the preparation of char siu barbecued pork and preserved sausages, and yuk bing siu – literal translation jade ice spirit – a traditional Cantonese liquor made with steamed rice … Read more