Ramen restaurant operator Dominic Tang insists on going to a wet market in Hong Kong to buy seafood to prepare shrimp soup every day, resisting the temptation to use a low-cost pre-made option. Tang, 39, made a decision to forgo potential savings of 30 per cent on labour and ingredients after visiting an upmarket restaurant…
A Hong Kong health inspector has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for stealing food samples bought with public money for radiation testing, with French veal stew and Arborio rice among the items seized from his home. West Kowloon Court on Thursday agreed not to jail Lau Shing-hin after the 36-year-old defendant pleaded…
Hong Kong authorities have ruled out the possibility of requiring labelling for pre-cooked meals at restaurants, citing the absence of uniform standards and varying interpretations of the concept. Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan told lawmakers on Thursday that the government would continue to develop standards and certifications for prepared dishes to support the…
Hong Kong health authorities have issued a food safety alert and suspended imports of a Japanese ice cream product after discovering coliform bacteria levels well above legal limits. The black tea-flavoured ice cream, branded as Kochi Ice and imported by Shin Tai Ho (Hong Kong) Company, was found to contain 140 coliform bacteria per gram,…
Hong Kong has proposed banning the sale of mini konjac jelly cups from April next year over the products’ choking-hazard risks, with anyone caught selling such goods to face a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a fine of up to HK$50,000 (US$6,370). The amendments will be presented to the Legislative Council next…
Hong Kong’s food safety watchdog has told businesses to temporarily remove a cola-flavoured Haribo product from their shelves as a precautionary measure, following the discovery of cannabis in a batch of the popular sweets in the Netherlands and an import suspension by Taiwan. In a reply to the Post, a government spokesman said on Sunday…
Hong Kong’s food safety watchdog has instructed businesses to temporarily remove Haribo’s gummy products from shelves as a precautionary measure, following reports from the Netherlands of cannabis contamination in certain batches of the popular sweets and an import suspension by Taiwan. In response to the Post’s queries, a government spokesman said on Sunday that while…