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Jan 16

Best hotel restaurants in Hong Kong for Chinese New Year Fireworks Dinners

If you’re in Hong Kong on January 29th make sure you have a room with a view – of Victoria Harbour for the Chinese New Year fireworks. Here’s our lucky number eight for firework dinners:

Kowloon side:

The Intercontinental

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View of the fireworks in the harbour from the Intercontinental hotel

The Interconti is perched right on the harbour’s edge so many of the guest rooms have fantastic views as well as the Harbourside restaurant and Nobu if you can bag a window table. Both restaurants are offering a Chinese New Year Fireworks Dinner Menu.
http://www.hongkong-ic.intercontinental.com

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Sep 25

Best Hong Kong Hotels (and their restaurants) for National Day

If you’re in Hong Kong for October 1st make sure you have a room with a view – of Victoria Harbour for the National Day fireworks.

Kowloon side:

The Intercontinental

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View of the fireworks in the harbour from the Intercontinental hotel

The Interconti is perched right on the harbour’s edge giving it some fantastic views from many of its guests rooms where you feel you’re right on the water and the rooftop Presidential Suite as well as the Lobby Lounge and Harbourside restaurant plus Alain Ducasse’s Spoon and Nobu if you can bag a window table.

All the restaurants have special menus planned for October 1st including a six course tasting menu at Alain Ducasse and an eight course omakase menu at Nobu.
http://www.hongkong-ic.intercontinental.com

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Jun 11

5 Best Hotel Club Lounges in Hong Kong

In town for business or bleisure? Check into Chopstix’s pick of Hong Kong hotels with great Club lounges. The criteria? Great views and real champagne.

Grand Club, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

Grand Club, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

Grand Club, Grand Hyatt
UPDATE: Grand Hyatt’s club lounge has just reopened following a revamp. It still has a sweeping stair case leading up to the best view of Victoria Harbour. They’ve now extended the evening champagne (with canapés) to all day free flow.
http://www.hongkong.grandhyatt.com

The Ritz Carlton Hong Kong

The Ritz Carlton Hong Kong

The Ritz Carlton Club Lounge
Open 24 hours with breakfast, light lunches, afternoon tea, canapés and dessert bar. 465 meters above sea level, it has TST rather than harbour views which are impressive none the less. Best of all there’s an around the clock bar including champagne.
http://www.ritzcarlton.com/Hong_Kong

Shangri La Hong Kong

Shangri La Hong Kong

Horizon Club, Island Shangri La
Lavish decor plus outdoor roof garden with city and Victoria Peak views on the 56th floor. Impressive evening buffet as well as champagne. Also gives you access to the lovely Petrus restaurant for breakfast.
http://www.shangri-la.com/hongkong/islandshangrila/

Four Seasons Hong Kong

Four Seasons Hong Kong

The Four Seasons Executive Club
Fantastic balcony with views of the harbour from the 45th floor. Open 24 hours with champagne available with evening canapés and post dinner – the bar is open until 1am.
http://www.fourseasons.com/hongkong/

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Club Intercontinental, The Intercontinental
Great breakfast (including a la carte menu) and afternoon tea. Mezzanine level looking out at the Hong Kong skyline and over the hotel’s lobby so you don’t feel detached from the action. Champagne with evening canapes.
http://www.hongkong-ic.intercontinental.com

Jan 2

Hong Kong Hangover Cures

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Chef Umberto Bombana

How are you feeling today? A little fragile perhaps? The sad and cruel truth about getting into the festive spirit is that you’re likely to feel dreadful the next morning. Finding a failsafe hangover cure is like searching for the holy grail and throughout history the hunt has involved food and drink.

Apparently the Greeks favoured cabbage as a cure while the Romans chose sheep lungs and owl eggs. Altogether more palatable is Lemuel Benedict’s remedy: he ordered toast, poached eggs, bacon and Hollandaise sauce (and invented the Eggs Benedict) at the Waldorf Hotel, New York in 1894 following a heavy night.

Most recently, scientists at Sun Yet-Sen University in Guangzhou have found that a can of Sprite is the best way of dispensing with those dreaded morning after symptoms.

But what do Hong Kong chefs rely on to get them through the morning after?

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Oct 27

The Truffles I’ve Known

"40 egg yolks" taglioni with white truffle at Grissini, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

“40 egg yolks” taglioni with white truffle at Grissini, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

Between black and white it always seems to be truffle season in Asia. But the white truffles foraged from Alba in the Piedmont region of Italy and nicknamed “diamonds” are the real stars.
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