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Many of Hong Kong’s high-end hotels are known for their elegant afternoon tea sets. Now one of them has gained attention on the global stage.Earlier this month, The Butterfly Room at Rosewood Hong Kong in Tsim Sha Tsui won the world’s best afternoon tea award at the La Liste Pastry Awards 2025.French review aggregator La Liste’s multi-language platform features more than 35,000 restaurants, 3,000 pastry shops and 7,000 hotels around the world.The Rosewood’s win marks the first time a Hong Kong establishment has come out on top in the category. It shares the No 1 spot with Hotel San Regis in Paris.Items from The Butterfly Room’s afternoon tea set, which La Liste named the world’s joint best in 2025. Photo: Rosewood Hong KongThe Hong Kong hotel’s executive pastry chef, Jonathan Soukdeo, retu...

For the 2025 edition of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, the annual event was held for the first time in Italy, at the historic Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli at the Lingotto Fiere exhibition centre in Turin.Maido, a Nikkei (Peruvian-Japanese) fine-dining spot in Lima helmed by chef Mitsuharu “Micha” Tsumura, took home the top honour.The restaurant is no stranger to accolades from the 50 Best universe, having received top ranking four times on the Latin America edition of the list.“I dream of making people happy,” said a visibly emotional Tsumura when taking to the stage. “I think hospitality can do amazing things. They can make dreams come true, they can solve most problems that you think cannot be solved. I think that we should be an example for the world of what can be done and how ...

From art to meaty Italian brunches, Hong Kong is dishing up something for everyone this weekend.Art lovers can head to M+ to see “Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Detachments”, a reconfiguration of the Hong Kong artist’s solo exhibition featured at the 2024 Venice Biennale.At Italian steakhouse Carna, charismatic Tuscan chef Dario Cecchini returns for a weekend of fun and food, while fans of Japanese manga series One Piece can head to Moko shopping centre for a pop-up with lifestyle brand Miniso.Movie fans can watch 28 Years Later, the hit horror series’ latest instalment.1. Yoga to de-stressAs part of a programme to mark International Day of Yoga – celebrated every year on June 21 – the Iyengar Yoga Centre Hong Kong invites people to let go of stress in a session led by its director George Dova...

This is the 53rd instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.Affectionately dubbed the “King of Chok” – chok being a Cantonese slang term that means trying to look cool or handsome, often to the point of being pretentious or cocky – Raymond Lam Fung is one of Hong Kong’s most successful entertainers of the 2000s.After training with Hong Kong broadcaster TVB at the beginning of his career, he made a name for himself as a television actor and cemented his status as a heartthrob through shows like La Femme Desperado, Moonlight Resonance and The Mysteries of Love.In the following years, Lam also became a Cantopop singer – music was his first love – and later ventured into the mainland Chinese market in the 2010s.Raymond Lam made a name for hi...

3.5/5 starsA potentially corny tale involving old-fashioned gangland heroics and an ex-convict father’s belated redemption is told with a great deal of nuance and heart in Fight for Tomorrow, a refreshingly uplifting crime drama by Hong Kong writer-director Chan Tai-lee (Tomorrow is Another Day).In a rare leading role that marks his best performance in years, veteran actor Patrick Tam Yiu-man (Breakout Brothers) leaves a vivid impression as Shek Sam-long, a former mob boss who was once known for his ferocious attitude, but has since lost both his marriage and fortune after several years in prison.Living alone in a shabby rooftop flat and stuck in a valet parking job with a condescending boss, Sam-long’s dream of starting a bar business of his own and turning his life around seems remote – ...

It was an early summer day and, without a cloud in the sky, the temperature in Seoul Olympic Park hit 28 degrees Celsius (82 degrees Fahrenheit). But the rising heat did not deter Elena Joo from attending this year’s Seoul Jazz Festival, with international headliners such as Thundercat, Jacob Collier and Lany, as well as chart-topping home favourites like Crush, Epik High and Jannabi.“This is my first time going to the Seoul Jazz Festival after putting it off for the past few years,” said the 35-year-old Seoul native, clinging on to a picnic mat and other outdoor necessities like water bottles and a packed lunchbox.“I knew that the festival happened every year in my neighbourhood. But it was when everyone started to talk about it like this big, one-of-a-kind annual event that I actually wa...

Chinatowns are often portrayed as gritty underworlds riddled with prostitution, gambling and drug trafficking. Some of this is rooted in truth, but that unfair depiction is largely the result of rampant xenophobia and cultural ignorance, especially in the West.In a series of articles, the Post explores the historical and social significance of major Chinatowns around the world and the communities that shape them.In Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History, author and self-taught artist Donna Seto has immortalised a neighbourhood from a bygone era in paint.“People really love [the book] because it paints Chinatown in a colourful, happy way. And I think a lot of people who love Chinatown want to see it that way,” says Seto, a Chinese-Canadian political scientist at the University of Briti...

There are a lot of health warnings telling us what we should cut back on, if not outright avoid.Fat is terrible for our heart and arteries. Salt will give us high blood pressure. Sugar is even worse, making us diabetic. And let’s not forget about ultra-processed foods that are full of chemicals, preservatives and additives. They’ll definitely give you cancer and kill you, they say.Is there anything to enjoy guilt-free?A lot of online health experts and diet gurus, as well as muscle-bound gym bros, insist that what we need is more protein. “The more protein, the better,” they scream in social media videos.Most of them are highly annoying. In their weights room with dumbbells in the background, in a shirt too small for their buff pectorals, they look directly at the camera as they try to sca...

The Rage Virus is, well, all the rage once more, as the much-anticipated 28 Years Later tears its way into cinemas this week.In the 23 years since the release of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, zombies and the infected have invaded pop culture like no one could have predicted.No one should therefore be surprised the series is back. Certainly not George A. Romero, the director of 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, the grandfather of all zombie movies, which set the template by using horror to explore societal tensions in late-’60s America.When Romero released Land of the Dead, his fourth zombie film, in 2005, he was no longer alone. Boyle’s 28 Days Later – in which a virus turns victims into rage-fuelled, fast-paced flesh-eaters – became a surprise hit in 2002. The same year, Paul WS Anderson’s ...

When Argo replaced Blue Bar at the Four Seasons Hong Kong in 2021, it made immediate waves for its radical use of ingredients – both in selection and preparation. Guests who have visited Argo are almost universally enthralled by the attention to detail in its menus, which are revised annually.The interior of Argo at Four Seasons Hong Kong. Photo: HandoutConceptually, the menus have ranged from focusing on local ingredients, such as vinegar and char siu, all the way to the current menu, which offers concoctions that integrate anywhere from a single element to four or more ingredients from a list of 10. Its continued presence on Asia’s 50 Best Bars since 2022 – ranked ninth in 2024 – is a testament to the success of its team, helmed by beverage manager Federico Balzarini, and the strength of...