South China Morning Post - Food & Drink

Hong Kong’s pizza scene is firing up, with four local restaurants claiming spots on the 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific 2026 list and two internationally recognised names entering the market. Joining the likes of Fiata – ranked joint third on the above list – in the city are Vincenzo Capuano, whose Naples pizzeria is No 13 on the 50 Top World Artisan Pizza Chains 2025 list, and Tokyo’...

If all the world’s a stage, then Hong Kong must be a one-man show. Shakespeare takes centre stage this weekend at the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) with Tibetan Hamlets and Ming-dynasty Othellos, while a North Point cafe transforms into an after-hours parlour for natural wines and flash tattoos. For those craving a slower scene, a wellness retreat will be hosted at a fi...

How many pots and pans do we really need for cooking? It depends. Quite a number of food nerds I know are fetishists when it comes to kitchen cookware. If a professional chef says that they employ a unique piece of cooking equipment, that suddenly becomes a new toy for them to obsess over. In some of my friends’ kitchens, the number of pans kept in cabinets, hung on walls or sta...

US-born Jen Balisi runs the food Instagram @indulgenteats and founded the modern Filipino restaurant Barkada in Hong Kong. She spoke to Andrew Sun. I was born in the US but I grew up eating home-cooked Filipino food. My summer memories are of dad grilling pork marinated in tangy soy-garlic barbecue sauce that we then dipped in garlic-spiked vinegar. From an early age, I had a ta...

“My mum’s Chinese restaurant is dying,” Scottish-born Chinese actor Lisa He says, recording herself speaking as she walks down a street in Edinburgh. “And I have three months to save it.” He posted the video to her social media account in April 2026, detailing the problems that have plagued her family’s restaurant, from the uninviting exterior to the colossal, outdated menu. The...