Genevieve Pang

From menu takeovers by renowned chefs to creative baked goodies and exclusive pop-ups, Hong Kong’s food and drink scene is always hard at work to keep us happy, well-fed, and forever curious. If you’re a bona fide foodie who's always on the lookout for the latest eats, turn your attention to these delicious happenings in the city right now. RECOMMENDED:  😋 New restaurants to check out in Hong Kong🍽️ 50 best restaurants in Hong Kong🍜 Unique Hong Kong dishes you need to try

So, you’ve secured a reservation at a dreamy restaurant, mapped out a date at one of Hong Kong’s most romantic spots, and picked up a stunning bouquet from the city’s top florists. But if you’re looking to wow your special someone with a thoughtful gift as well, we’ve put together a list of inspiration for you to find that perfect present. (And even if you don’t have someone special to shower you with gifts, who’s to say you can’t spoil yourself?) RECOMMENDED: 📆 February events in Hong Kong 🏝️ 10 secret islands you need to explore in Hong Kong 🍽️ New restaurants in Hong Kong 2026

Valentine’s Day is coming up soon, and you know what that means: romance is in the air. It’s commonly repeated that the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach, but who said you need to be the one cooking it? Let these restaurants take the hard work out of Valentine’s Day with their limited-time menus. (You’ll still need to bring the gift though.) RECOMMENDED: Continue your lovey-dovey celebrations in one of the most romantic hotels in Hong Kong.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – because we get to sip on delicious Christmas-themed drinks! Festive mulled wine and eggnog aside, Hong Kong bars continue to show off their creative flair when it comes to crafting cocktails worthy of the holiday season. Here are some of the best places in town to try festive sips for yourself and get into the holiday mood. RECOMMENDED: Check out our list of festive workshops for something to make with your hands this Christmas season!

New Year’s Eve is the last hurrah of the year, a symbolic sending-off that always has us feeling both bittersweet and excited about what’s to come. Before gathering with friends, family, and loved ones to count down to the new year at midnight, there’s plenty of time for one last unforgettable dinner to bid 2025 a fond farewell. Here are some of our top picks for the best New Year’s Eve menus in Hong Kong – plan ahead for December 31! RECOMMENDED: Fill up your calendar with the best things to do in Hong Kong this December!

All right, sure, it’s already halfway into the month of December, but if you’re just out to get your advent calendar for Christmas 2025 now, that just means you get to play catch-up and enjoy a whole bunch of treats, goodies, and mini-gifts in one go. Whether it’s a sugary morsel, a decadent candle to brighten up the home, skincare to pamper yourself with, or a fragrant tea to pair with delicious festive gingerbread cookies, we’ve got something for everyone.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, judging by the way people are stressing out over their gift shopping! But don’t panic – even though Christmas is only two weeks away, that’s still plenty of time to plan for a meaningful and useful gift for the men in your life. Here’s our Christmas gift guide for him to make the hunt for the perfect prezzie a little easier.

Nothing screams “Christmas” quite like the tinsel, the decorations, the music, and the festive lights, but something that truly transports you to the magical atmosphere of European Christmas markets and frosty wonderlands are the smells and flavours of hot festive drinks, carefully cradled in gloved hands to stave off the cold. As the temperatures in Hong Kong dip and Christmas displays sparkle in full force, find us happily sipping on mulled wine and other hot festive drinks at these bars and restaurants around town.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – well, other than Christmas, of course. The end of the year in Hong Kong usually means brightly lit, overindulgent, and supersized festive displays as far as the eye can see, but it also means the return of Clockenflap. Hong Kong’s largest international music and arts festival has been going strong since 2008, and as with every annual iteration, there is something for everyone. Read on to find out more about what to expect at Clockenflap 2025, and where to get tickets.RECOMMENDED: Need even more events to fill your calendar? Check out our roundup of the best happenings in Hong Kong this December

Oh yes, it’s that time of year again! As the holiday season rolls in, Hong Kong lights up with some of the most spectacular Christmas displays you can imagine. Every shopping mall, skyscraper, and outdoor venue goes all out, decking their halls with the brightest, cutest, and quirkiest decorations.  RECOMMENDED:  🍾 Festive Christmas hampers🎄 Places to buy Christmas trees⛸️ Hong Kong’s best ice skating rinks

When autumn comes to mind, most might think of the slight breeze that comes with the seasons changing, or leaves turning shades of yellow and orange. But there’s another thing that’s synonymous with Hong Kong’s autumns: hairy crabs. While some may choose to order and prepare them in the comfort of home, others prefer settling down at one of city’s finest restaurants and fully indulge. Here’s a list of the best places across Hong Kong for you to feast away on these hirsute crustaceans this autumn. RECOMMENDED: Get ready for Halloween by checking out the best Halloween parties and dinners taking place around Hong Kong!

Art lovers are in for a treat this month as Christie’s Asia Pacific gears up for its Hong Kong 20th/21st Century Autumn Auctions, where an exceptional collection featuring the biggest names in modern and contemporary art has been lined up. Answering to the growing demand for artworks by masters and visionaries, the sales are headlined by Pablo Picasso’s Buste de femme, Zao Wou-ki’s 17.3.63, Yoshitomo Nara’s Mumps, David Hockey’s Table with Conversation, Yayoi Kusama’s PUMPKIN [TWAQN], Claude Monet’s Printemps à Giverny, effet d’aprés-midi, J.M.W. Turner’s The Grand Bridge at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, and many more, showcasing diverse artistic movements.

Christie’s Asia Pacific is commemorating the first anniversary of its new Henderson headquarters with a slew of autumn auctions, among them a sale highlighting Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art as part of the launch of this new department. Leading the event is a rare, newly reattributed figure of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion – an exquisite gilded copper alloy sculpture that is emblematic of a new art style that rose to prominence during the 13th-century Yuan court under the purview of Aniko, the renowned Nepalese artist. Other notable pieces include the figure of Manjushri and a rare thangka attributed to the 10th Karmapa, Choying Dorje, depicting parinirvana. Now’s your chance to see these masterpieces before they head into private collections.

Head to Sotheby’s Maison in Landmark Chater for a limited-time exhibition examining the complex and enduring interplay between desire and death – fundamental forces shaping the human experience. Inspired by the works of French philosopher Georges Bataille, Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, and Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, ‘Eros/Thanatos’ combines mythology, art history, and psychoanalysis to uncover how artists have navigated the tension between ecstasy and dissolution across centuries. Curated with a memento mori message in mind, ‘Eros/Thanatos’ encourages viewers to reflect on the feelings of desire and death, and the contradictions that define existence.

As part of the celebration surrounding its new gallery space in the Southside, De Sarthe is launching two exhibitions concurrently. ‘20th Century Narratives – In Conversation’, the gallery’s second show, presents a curated collection of post-war and modern paintings and sculptures, featuring the likes of Yayoi Kusuma, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Chu Teh-chun, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Jack Tworkov, Bernar Venet, and Zao Wou-ki as they are brought together to represent a transcontinental artistic exchange.

De Sarthe is inaugurating its new gallery space in the Southside with a new solo exhibition featuring contemporary Hong Kong artist Lazarus Chan. ‘Poetics Policy’ is an immersive journey that investigates the influence of policy-making on art, reality, and machine intelligence through multimedia and interactive artworks. Adding a dystopian touch, the exhibition features an AI-built living system as an imagined simulation of the future, which is governed by the artist, but used to emphasise that the essence of art is found in the policies guiding its creation, rather than in the generated texts or imagery.

A new exhibition at M+ showcases 12 immersive installations by pioneering women artists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including three new works by Asian artists. Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now emphasises the multisensory experience of art and highlights women’s contributions to installation art, a field often overshadowed by male artists. Visitors can actively engage with the environments, which include nine historic pieces that have been painstakingly reconstructed, such as Aleksandra Kasuba’s Spectral Passage (1975), which invites individuals to journey through interconnected nylon structures as a metaphor of the life cycle; Judy Chicago’s Feather Room (1966), an all-white space filled with 300 pounds of feathers; and more. M+ will also host talks with co-curators Andrea Lissoni and Marina Pugliese to discuss the concept behind the exhibition, and a panel discussion with the three Asian artists whose new, commissioned work is part of Dream Rooms. Additionally, M+ Cinema will screen three documentaries about some of the exhibited artists to supplement the show.

Tai Kwun Contemporary is presenting a two-part exhibition under the theme ‘Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008’. Centred around an expansive exploration of the transformations and social shifts within 21st-century China brought about by the prolific spread of the internet and digital technologies, the first chapter will take over all three floors of the JC Contemporary art spaces, running for a little over three months. ‘Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud’ will present more than 50 pieces mapping the creative pursuits of over 35 artists and groups whose practices are influenced by social media, the internet, and digital technologies. Divided into themed segments such as artificial intelligence, information bubbles, online communities, and more, the showcase explores how to ‘stay connected’ in today’s world. Li Shuang, Li Yi-fan, Miao Ying, Wong Ping, Lu Yang, Shao Chun, Zhang Yibei, and the Xijing Men collective are among the many artists exhibiting. Collaborative duo Sun Yuan & Peng Yu – whose claim to fame is the Can’t Help Myself kinetic sculpture with a robotic arm – is also participating.

Urban sketch artist Rob Sketcherman is bringing his unique perspective of Hong Kong’s everyday scenes to the W Hong Kong! From nostalgic pictures of stilt houses in Tai O to depicting the energetic Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance and evening views of the Star Ferry Pier in Tsim Sha Tsui, Sketcherman’s lively art captures the dynamic spirit of the city through detail-oriented, colourful illustrations. What’s special about this exhibition is that there will be five screens in the hotel lobby showcasing Sketcherman’s artistic process through time-lapse recordings of his drawings, so visitors will not only see his finished pieces, but also all the thinking behind the sketches and the work that went into them.

White Cube Hong Kong is staging an exhibition showcasing the works of the seminal Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi. ‘A Feeling’ revolves around the pieces Noguchi created after meeting and studying under Chinese master ink painter Qi Baishi, exploring how the teachings influenced his later sculptural approach.  A selection of Noguchi’s abstract ‘Peking Brush Drawings’ and complex bronze sculptures are displayed alongside Qi’s scrolls in this exhibition, creating a narrative between the two artists. Noguchi’s work pushes the boundaries of sculptural positive and negative space, testing the boundaries of three dimensions, but his use of bronze as a medium reflects his desire to blend ancient and modern.

Witness Hong Kong through a quirky lens at Cordis, Hong Kong’s new ‘Art in Residence’ exhibition, featuring a series of surreal digital art pieces created by Tommy Fung where our city’s iconic landmarks and cultural touchpoints are juxtaposed against humorously impossible scenarios. Fung is known for his whimsical, Photoshop-manipulated images – from transforming the Hong Kong Space Museum into a giant Chiikawa head and inserting a snacking panda into a wet market stall narrative, to creating a Tesla Cybertruck version of the iconic Hong Kong red taxi, nothing’s off limits for the Hong Kong artist. ‘SurrealHK: The City Reimagined’ is part of Cordis, Hong Kong’s 10th anniversary celebrations, so mark the occasion with the hotel while taking in some fun art.

Sadly, this is not a full-fledged exhibition featuring the legendary Zao Wou-ki, but it is a special occasion nonetheless. One of the artist’s ‘Hurricane Period’ masterpieces, created   during the early 1960s as he rose to global fame, is heading to auction at Christie’s, and visitors can see it during the public previews for a limited time only.  17.3.63 is notable for its vibrant, incandescent colour, and is one of only 19 bright red large-scale paintings to be completed by the artist in the 1960s. Expressive, powerful brushstrokes are the leading feature of this vertical composition, masterfully balancing light and shadow to exude passion and confidence. It’s the first time the piece has appeared at auction, so once it sells and goes into a private collection, it may not be seen again in public for a long time. Here’s your chance to lay eyes on it.

Now here’s an excellent way to ring in the Year of the Horse – with a pony encounter! On March 7, 8, and 15, Tai Kwun will welcome real-life Shetland ponies to its Parade Ground for a family-friendly animal meet-and-greet and unique photo-taking moments! ‘Ponies on Parade’ represents a callback to Tai Kwun’s past life as the Central Police Station, when horses still had a presence on the premises as steeds for mounted coppers. Although the archival photographs show that Shetland ponies were not actually part of the lineup, it still represents a full-circle moment for equestrian activity at Tai Kwun, reimagining it as a gathering place between humans and horses once more. Photograph: Courtesy Tai Kwun Not much has been shared about the individual Shetland ponies themselves, how many there will be for the three days, or which stable they are from, but what has been announced is that the meet-and-greet experience will be reserved for ticketed guests. ‘Ponies on Parade’ will take place on March 7 (11.30am-3pm), 8 (11am-3pm), and 15 (11am-3pm) at the Parade Ground at Tai Kwun, and attendees can purchase their tickets ($80 for two persons) online to secure a meet‑and‑greet experience and photo moments with a Shetland pony, plus a $50 Tai Kwun shopping and dining e‑voucher. Walk-ins are available as well at $50 for two persons, but they are subject to availability (if there are any tickets left after online bookings, that is) and the walk-in price does not include a Tai Kwun e-vou

Hongkongers love a good food trend, whether it’s dalgona coffee, Basque burnt cheesecake, soufflé pancakes, cheese-top tea… the list goes on. But the things that go viral do not always gain traction for the right reasons. Case in point: the notorious ‘three-colour bean’. What English speakers might refer to as a ‘mixed vegetable’ medley – the ubiquitous trifecta of frozen corn, peas, and carrots that all households seem to have a bag of to use as a cold compress – is known colloquially in Hong Kong as ‘three-colour bean’, maybe because the mass-produced diced veggies are more or less uniform in size. It all started in a breakfast shop in Taipei, which – for reasons incomprehensible to those with functioning taste buds – decided to create a ‘three-colour bean’ milk tea. Let that sink in… then consider what that drink looks like, and what consuming it feels like. Forget the chewy bounciness of tapioca balls – these solids go the crunch route. Even the owner, after sampling it, reacted with “I have nothing to say”, but the damage was done – ‘three-colour bean’ milk tea took off, and the ‘three-colour bean’ craze went viral. Photograph: Courtesy @twt_0927 / Threads Not long after, the trend came to us in Hong Kong, and ‘three-colour bean’ has been having a field day on Threads, drawing ire left, right, and centre from the chronically online, no thanks to a restaurant in Kwun Tong. Freedom Ramen hopped on the bandwagon to release a ‘three-colour bean’ ramen ($38) that, self-admi

Love potato crisps? Love Lunar New Year? If the answer to both of those questions is a resounding “yes”, you’re going to love this new festive display at Citygate Outlets. Tung Chung’s popular outlet mall is teaming up with snack food giant Calbee for a Lunar New Year-themed installation comprising installations, interactive games, and a pop-up shop stocked with the most adorable merchandise featuring Calbee’s potato mascot. From now until March 8, snack fans can visit the ‘Golden-Crisp New Year’ installation at Citygate Outlets to celebrate Calbee’s 50th year in the Hong Kong market – which might come as a surprise to some, as it sure feels like Calbee crisps and crackers have always been a part of our lives and childhoods. ‘Golden-Crisp New Year’ features eight supersized installations, bringing Calbee’s iconic products and characters – including ‘potato fairy’ Jagabee Potta, Pote Kun, the Kappa Ebi Family, and Jagarico Kirin – to life.  Photograph: Courtesy Citygate Outlets Expect to see a giant sculpture depicting cascading crisps falling into a snack bowl, Jagabee Potta in festive Lunar New Year garb holding a spud, the L2 Atrium floor transformed into a board game, and more, if snapping pictures at photo spots is your kind of thing. Jagarico Kirin waits beside the ‘Fortune Catcher Station’ to cheer you on during the Crispy Grab Challenge, roll a dice on the ‘Potta-stic Game Garden’ to reach the finish line first or play with seesaws modelled after fries or shrimp stic

Hong Kong’s biggest Lunar New Year celebration is making its spectacular return this month, commandeering the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui for a Year of the Horse extravaganza like no other! Organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the Cathay International Chinese New Year Night Parade 2026 will take place on Tuesday, February 17 – the first day of Lunar New Year – featuring a programme of stunning floats and performances under the theme ‘Best Fortune World Party’. Here’s what to expect from the event: When and where is the Chinese New Year Night Parade? Mark your calendars – the Cathay International Chinese New Year Night Parade will happen on Tuesday, February 17, from 9pm to 9.45pm. Tsim Sha Tsui will be blocked off for the occasion to accommodate the route of the floats and performances. We anticipate onlookers will gather in Tsim Sha Tsui well before the event begins to secure a good, free-of-charge spot for viewing the Chinese New Year Night Parade, and luckily, there will be entertainment to keep them occupied – pre-parade performances start at 6pm to drum up excitement, and will include lion and dragon dances, magic, and acrobatic rope skipping. Photograph: Courtesy HKTB What kind of floats will be at the Chinese New Year Night Parade? Major sponsors and participating event partners will be launching 12 different floats to wow the crowd. Cathay is poised to celebrate Lunar New Year and its 80th anniversary with an aircraft-themed display; the Hong Kong Jockey Club will

Party animals, it’s happening – M+ is kicking off the spring season of its best-selling M+ at Night museum gatherings next month with fresh experiences and exhibitions! ‘Endless Realms’ on Friday, March 6, will mark the return of M+ at Night, except this time, the after-dark programming will be even more diverse than ever before. From the dazzling stage and the intriguing galleries to engaging encounters, ‘Endless Realms’ is themed around the current ‘Zao Wou-Ki: Master Printmaker’ exhibition that runs until May 3.  Photograph: Courtesy M+, Hong Kong Attendees will be grooving to Mandarin R&B tunes from Hong Kong indie musician Gordon Flanders’s repertoire, swaying to vocal performances by local acapella group Boonfaysau, bopping to the energetic beats of Mr Ho’s DJ set, unravelling the abstract works of Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-ki, and taking part in a guided workshop to learn printmaking techniques. M+ Guides will also lead talks to reveal the creativity and concepts behind Zao’s evocative art. Besides music, art, and interactive activities, M+ at Night will also introduce stand-up comedy and a quiz game show for the first time ever at the March 6 event. Bilingual Hong Kong comedian Vivek Mahbubani will be the host, so expect whip-smart commentary and a night of non-stop laughter. As with previous M+ at Night editions, there will be food and drinks available for purchase at the museum. Photograph: Courtesy M+, Hong Kong Aside from the special showcase featuring Zao

Ever wanted to go back in time and shop at a supermarket from the 1950s? It might come off as a rather specific fancy, but for those who harbour such a dream, you’re in luck: Hong Kong’s homegrown supermarket giant, Wellcome, is hopping aboard the nostalgia train with the launch of a retro-inspired concept store in Yau Ma Tei. Designed as a tribute to Hong Kong’s extensive retail history, Wellcome has repurposed its Prosperous Garden branch in Yau Ma Tei as an exhibition destination to celebrate the supermarket’s 80-year-plus legacy. Founded in 1945, Wellcome has been a constant in the lives of local families, serving the needs of generations of Hongkongers. As the city evolved, Wellcome evolved with it, but this branded concept shop preserves a slice of the supermarket as shoppers might have seen it back in the 1950s to the 1970s, complete with vintage character, photogenic interiors, and time-limited collectibles. Each aisle, stocked with a curated selection of products, doubles as a fetching backdrop oozing charm and colour, so no doubt this location will quickly become a popular attraction! Photograph: Courtesy Wellcome Snap photos of the LED-emblazoned shopfront, which takes its cues from Hong Kong’s famous urban landscape of neon lights; discover classic interior design elements such as the vintage silver-and-green turnstile, a sea of red plastic lamps popularised in wet markets, and patterned floor tiles; and admire nostalgic grocery setups and heritage exhibits that

If you’re a fan of Shiro’s inventive sushi creations, there is reason to rejoice – the popular Pacific Place restaurant has welcomed a new sister location in Tai Kwun! Helmed by executive chef Tatsuya Iwahashi and executive sushi chef Jeff Ko, Shiro Central is poised to become a darling of the Aqua Restaurant Group portfolio, showcasing innovative cuisine that draws inspiration from Japan’s vibrant food culture. Tai Kwun is, on its own, already rich in heritage, and its collection of 16 historic buildings within the complex each carry their own tales. Shiro’s new restaurant location in Central finds itself in the two-storey Armoury, looking out across the Parade Ground. Built in 1925, mounted guards commandeered the structure during the Japanese Occupation to use as stables, and later, the Armoury housed the traffic division of the Central police. After Tai Kwun reopened to the public in 2018 following a major revitalisation, the space was home to Aaharn, David Thompson’s Michelin-starred Thai restaurant, before giving way to the Armoury Terrace bar, and now finally, Shiro Central. Photograph: Courtesy Shiro Shiro Central brings to Tai Kwun all the things that cemented Shiro Admiralty as a firm favourite among patrons. Its picture-perfect crystal sushi – featuring flavoured jelly layered atop fresh fish and rice – is certainly a must-order, and comes in various configurations, including fatty salmon with mint and sake jelly, botan ebi and avocado with ponzu jelly, and scall

Hong Kong Arts Month is almost upon us, and one of the highlights of this annual arts and culture celebration held in March is the long-standing Hong Kong Arts Festival, now back for its 54th edition. Running from February 27 to March 27, the 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival is connected by a poignant theme of promoting courage, peace, and resilience, and will gather more than 1,100 performers, musicians, and artists to present more than 45 distinct programmes in a packed schedule of over 170 performances.  Here’s a small selection of the highlights and what to look forward to at this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival, including our picks of which performances shouldn’t be missed. Photograph: Courtesy Hong Kong Arts Festival Music Without a doubt, one of the most highly anticipated events in the 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival programme is Jockey Club InnoArts Series: Kagami by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Tin Drum, a mixed-reality performance honouring the late Japanese composer. From February 27 to March 15, Sakamoto will “return” to the baby grand – in a manner of speaking – through an immersive, tech-driven approach blending motion capture and spatial audio that preserved his presence and piano-playing for attendees to observe through VR headsets, making his final performance a lasting legacy. With an extensive collection of musical happenings to choose from, it all depends on taste and preference. Not to be missed is the legendary Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who will perform in Hong Kong wit

Hong Kong is inseparable from its instantly recognisable Victoria Harbour skyline, whether it’s observed from Hong Kong Island side or from Kowloon side. Dispersed among these towering skyscrapers, humble in height but just as formidable in reputation, are time-worn edifices that carry the city’s colonial past and Chinese heritage, numbering in the hundreds, quietly keeping record of Hong Kong’s past. And that tally only continues to grow: Just last week, the Antiquities Authority added two more buildings to that list, declaring them as monuments under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance. On January 30, the Hong Kong government gazetted a notice stating that the Antiquities Authority has added two structures in the Western District on Hong Kong Island to its collection of preserved and protected monuments: the Main Building of Old Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital in Sai Ying Pun and Kwong Fook Tsz in Sheung Wan. Both buildings are more than a century old, and are expectedly rich in history and purpose. Photograph: Courtesy gov.hk Opened in 1922 by the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee (CPDC) on Western Street in Sai Ying Pun, the Old Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital served an important function as a centre for maternity services catering to Chinese women. Chinese midwives were also trained on the premises to learn modern nursing methods, demonstrating the cooperative alliance between Chinese and Western medical professionals to promote maternity health and empower women. Afte

Well, that didn’t last long: A controversial mandatory seatbelt provision that the Hong Kong government introduced on January 25 has been repealed just five days after it came into effect. On January 30, the secretary for transport and logistics, Mable Chan, announced at a press conference that the legal provisions mandating bus passengers to wear seatbelts would be removed, following technical deficiencies in the legal language. Under the short-lived law, passengers who did not wear a seatbelt on buses would face a maximum fine of $5,000 and up to three months of imprisonment. However, the provision’s wording caused confusion and, following consultations with the Department of Justice, it was acknowledged that the legal clause did not accurately reflect the policy’s intent of requiring all passengers on buses to wear seatbelts where available. It was pointed out that the provision seemed only to apply to new buses registered after the law came into effect; passengers riding on older buses did not face the same requirement. Not long after the new seatbelt regulation came into effect, it already met its first obstacle. On January 29, Citybus filed a police report following an incident in which a passenger aboard its 795X route service was trapped in their seat for over 45 minutes, being unable to unfasten a seatbelt buckle that had been tampered with. More than a dozen firefighters were on the scene to assist, in addition to four paramedics, an ambulance, and three firetrucks.

Is drinking unhealthy? Well, yes, consuming alcohol in excess generally results in negative outcomes, but perhaps the whole thing’s a little less dire so if you’re doing it at a bar that serves cocktails inspired by Hong Kong herbal tea culture and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Clan & Company Community Bar has been delighting Hongkongers with its unique, drinkable interpretations of the ‘Five Flavours’ of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese cuisine, and their latest project takes mindful drinking to greater heights, from cha chaan teng to Victoria Harbour. Located on the outdoor terrace of the Michelin-starred French restaurant Épure, the Clan & Company Lounge is a new alfresco pop-up bar offering a cocktail experience lifted from Hong Kong’s golden era, blending local flavours with nostalgia and botanical goodness. For those who don’t know, Clan & Company is a heritage concept brand and bar by Magnolia Lab, a Hong Kong liqueur producer founded by a local bartender and a TCM practitioner, known for their modern revival of local herbal tea culture through the art of mixology. Reimagining traditional Chinese medicine into innovative cocktails, Clan & Company’s philosophy is centred around crafting “liquid remedies” designed to heal, soothe, and nourish.  Photograph: Courtesy Clan & Company Lounge / @clan.andco.lounge Inventive libations here are completely different to the menu in their cha chaan teng-themed Community Bar in Yau Ma Tei, and some new highlights here

Love dim sum and surreal imagery? You’re in good company. Hong Kong street artist Lousy, best known for his bold graphics resembling glyphs and pictorial shapes, is collaborating with viral food photographer-artist David Leung – also known as Davidgoodtime, who specialises in capturing reflected food images highlighting pareidolia – for a dynamic exhibition about dim sum and the ritual of yum cha.  Hosted at JPS Gallery, ‘Double Umami’ is an artistic ode to Hong Kong cuisine, reimagined through the unique lenses of two distinctly different creators, who shaped their love of dumplings and morning teas into a visual celebration of Hong Kong’s DNA.  Photograph: Courtesy JPS Gallery In the exhibition space, visitors will encounter a customised dim sum cart installation, decorated by David and Lousy, in addition to photographs depicting beloved dim sum dishes in Leung’s signature mirrored style, mounted inside bamboo steamers crafted by master artisan Lui Ming of Ming Sang Steel Bamboo Receptacle. ‘Crab’s Kid Burn & Sell’ shows siu mai in a different light, appearing almost like the face of a crustacean, while ‘Char Siu Cat No. 2’ draws parallels between char siu bao and felines. We also particularly liked the birdcage installation which houses real emu eggs and plastic cards from dim sum carts inscribed with the Chinese onomatopoeia for bird chirps. Photograph: Courtesy JPS Gallery Branching out from photography onto canvas and installation work for the first time, Leung is a