As Super Typhoon Ragasa pummelled Hong Kong on Wednesday, some brave restaurants kept their doors open for hungry Hongkongers. Despite the Hong Kong Observatory maintaining its highest-level No 10 warning in the morning for the year’s most powerful storm, before lowering it to No 8 at lunchtime, many residents braved gale-force winds and heavy downpours…
It is easy to spot Kent Wong among the lunchtime diners at a busy cooked food centre in Hong Kong’s Kowloon City neighbourhood. He is wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a tropical-print shirt – the signature style of his social media moniker, Uncle K. Wong, who has amassed more than 184,000 Instagram followers since…
There is a lot of anxious hand-wringing these days about how to entice diners back to restaurants in Hong Kong and how to encourage mainland Chinese tourists to explore the cosmopolitan range of eateries in our city. Well, one simple idea is just to put more pictures on menus. I know for many chefs and…
Regular and new patrons alike have flocked to a decades-old Hong Kong cha chaan teng, made famous for being featured in a comedy film starring Stephen Chow Sing-chi, as the struggling restaurant in Mong Kok will close permanently after Christmas. The Hung Wan Cafe was packed on Saturday afternoon, with a stream of customers waiting…
Regular and new patrons alike have flocked to a decades-old Hong Kong cha chaan teng, made famous for being featured in a comedy film starring Stephen Chow Sing-chi, as the struggling restaurant in Mong Kok will close permanently after Christmas. The Hung Wan Cafe was packed on Saturday afternoon, with a stream of customers waiting…