Hong Kong restaurant Otera’s impressive dessert tasting experience highlights underappreciated ingredients

And while I love the over-the-top, fast-paced Instagram reels of insanely talented pastry chefs like Cedric Grolet and chocolatiers like Amaury Guichon creating impossible architectural feats out of sugar and spice, I honestly feel that they cannot actually taste all that nice. A miso dark chocolate cookie, a cinnamon orange cookie and a smoked Earl … Read more

Curry, afternoon tea, interesting wine – where a South African bar owner goes to eat and drink in Hong Kong

South African native Leigh-Ann Luckett is the owner of Sai Ying Pun wine bar Crushed. She spoke to Andrew Sun. We weren’t a wildly foodie family, honestly. Dinners at home were usually utilitarian, but my mum managed restaurants so I was spoiled with restaurant food at her work. My paternal grandmother did teach me to … Read more

In Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, Hong Kong’s past and present meet: photo essay

Typhoon shelters have been fixtures of Hong Kong since the late 19th century. Every day, many Hongkongers will walk past one of the 14 structures dotted around the city’s coastline. Most will not give them a second thought. But, as with much else in the city, all these typhoon shelters have gone through many changes. … Read more