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[Hong Kong] One Harbour Road is ranked No 15 in the Miele Guide 2003 that celebrates Asia’s finest restaurants, selected after four rounds of judging. Perhaps this restaurant has been out of the radar for many, but its reputation is enough for me to want to check it out. Located at the Grand Hyatt Hong [...]

[Hong Kong] If you are looking for the most characteristic and photogenic Starbucks in the world, you may want to make your way to Hong Kong’s Bing Sutt at Duddell Street. After all, this Starbucks which pays homage to the 1950s Hong Kong arts and culture, is a collaboration with Douglas Young’s unique concept store [...]

[Hong Kong] Throw a stone in Hong Kong and you are likely to hit a Dim Sum place. Most would be of reasonable quality, unless you are really in bad luck. If you are in search for somewhere you can drink as well, Dim Sum Bar at Tsim Sha Tsui’s Harbour City is probably one [...]

[Hong Kong] Joel Robuchon is known as the “Chef of the Century”, owning restaurants from Paris, Las Vegas, London to Tokyo, earning a total of 28 Michelin stars, the most of any chefs in the entire world. This meal at L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon is my first Robuchon’s, and also my first 3 Star Michelin. [...]

[Hong Kong] Tim Ho Wan 添好運 is a Cinderella story, the hole-in-the-wall dim sum restaurant that scored One Michelin Star, thereby earning its reputation as the‘cheapest Michelin Star restaurant in the world’. Fame found its way. (The other cheap Michelin star restaurant is Ho Hung Kee) Although there were a few branches, only the outlets [...]

[Hong Kong] This is exciting. Huge fans of Doraemon would know that his birthday falls on September 3rd 2112. You are not reading wrong, this means we will be counting down to his birthday 100 years early! This is kind of embarrassing, for a huge guy my age to confess that I like Xiao Ding [...]

[Hong Kong] Two-star Michelin restaurant Amber is ranked Number 44 restaurant in the world, alongside with other Hong Kong entries Bo Innovation (52), Caprice (54), Lung King Heen (93). This makes Amber the top ranking restaurant in Hong Kong, and the best. This being my first try at a San Pellegrino World’s Top 100 restaurant, [...]

[Hong Kong] Wonton Noodles with Michelin Star? Yes, Ho Hung Kee is one of the few Wonton Noodles shop that is actually awarded the One Michelin Star. You would have thought only fine dining restaurants would get accolades like that. Founded in 1946, Ho Hung Kee has only one branch at Causeway Bay, refusing to [...]

Is it chance that two of Hong Kong’s best wanton noodle shops are right opposite one another? They should probably do a rivalry love movie on Mak’s Noodle 麥奀雲吞麵世家 vs Tsim Chai Kee 沾仔记. (To be fair, Singapore also has our own version of Hua Kee vs Cho Kee at Old Airport Road.) Let’s have [...]

Bubble tea fans were so worried momentarily that their favourite drink would be banned. Ever since beverages, jams and jellies manufactured in Taiwan were test for DEHP contamination, bubble tea chains in Singapore are hot on their toes. Gong Cha 贡茶 has earlier voluntarily stopped selling its fruit-flavoured drinks because the flavoured syrup comes from [...]