Hong Kong’s food hygiene authorities have issued a warning to a local bakery after some of its staff were shown cleaning a shelf with a floor mop in a viral online photo. Images widely shared on social media show two female employees at a bakery in the Tsz Wan Shan Shopping Centre using the floor…
Hong Kong grandmother Shirley Cheung* knows she is breaking the law every time she buys partially cooked beef brisket in Shenzhen to bring home. At a hotpot restaurant at Shenzhen’s Liantang Port, the brisket costs about 76 yuan (US$11) per kilogram. It would be more than HK$200 (US$26) at her local wet market in Sheung…
Vendors that will set up shop at Hong Kong’s largest Lunar New Year fair have expressed concerns over profit amid lacklustre consumer spending as 12 stalls failed to earn bids at auction and one insider estimated prices had fallen to their lowest level in 17 years. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department held the three-day…
Five Hong Kong firefighters were hurt on Friday after their vehicle was rear-ended by a goods truck when they went to assist at a traffic accident involving a car and a wild boar. The initial crash took place in Sai Kung at about 11.24am when a Kowloon-bound private car was travelling along Clear Water Bay…
Six Hongkongers from a syndicate have been arrested for smuggling raw food from mainland China to the city, including the largest amount of hairy crab in a single case this year, according to the Customs and Excise Department. Customs said on Friday it had seized unauthorised frozen meat, eggs, and hairy crab worth about HK$200,000…
A Hong Kong public hospital ward is battling a bedbug infestation after four patients suffered suspected bites from the insects, prompting authorities to step up pest control measures and launch an investigation. A Kwai Chung Hospital spokesman said on Tuesday night that a male patient in a post-admission care unit had complained of itchy skin…