As if the property market hasn't had enough stimulation with prices jumping to new highs, the government has auctioned off a very rare premium plot of residential land at The Peak last week. Located on 103 Mount Nicholson Road, this 250,930-square-foot parcel was bought by Nam Fung Group for $10.5...
Well, as you might have heard, M1NT is closing on Aug 7 (that's this Saturday, til late of course). Head down there for a last drink, as the club has planned a series of parties til the end of it all. We were told that a sparklin' new club, with a new name and concept, will open at the same...
We’ve all seen it coming—just this week we have seen how the government’s new policies and measures to regulate and cool down the property market have failed completely. Over at Tseung Kwan O, the market was shocked to find that a flat at Residence Oasis, sized at 1,268 square...
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Are we all ditching Sunday breakfast and lunch and just going for brunch now? Well, it certainly seems so with the influx of brunch emails we’ve been getting lately. Gilbert Yeung’s new baby Buzy Suzie at 1881 Heritage (hate the mall, love the restaurants and hotel there) has...
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Amber at Landmark Mandarin Oriental has just launched a new summer menu. New items include the peach poached in champagne with lemon verbena sorbet fromage blanc; langoustine marinated with menton lemon, manni olive oil, crémeux of langoustine and cucumber tagliatelle; and steamed...
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Man, guest chefs keep coming to town. Barcelonian guest chef Jordi Conesa was recently at The Mira’s Yamm and this week The Royal Garden hotel is hosting two guest chefs at Inagiku and Sabatini respectively. Inagiku has invited top Japanese sushi chef Isamu Moriguchi to be their...
Frigging hell, has it been a year already? While here at the HK Magazine office we are looking out the window, wondering when the typhoon is going to come, in our inbox we already have emails about mooncakes. To give you some sense of time, this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on...
1. The “Fountain”
At the front center of the cemetery is this ornamental fountain, which serves as a good starting point for your tour. Now covered in plants and cement, this was a functioning fountain when it was first built in the early 1900s and according to Nicolson, served as a...
At the Hong Kong Cemetery, Ken Nicolson raises his spectacles to his forehead, leans toward a century-old sarcophagus—his nose almost touching it—to read its faint inscriptions. The sky is gray; the cemetery is otherwise deserted. In almost any other circumstance, this would have been...
Hong Kong’s largest book event is in town again from July 21 to 27 and the Convention and Exhibition Centre will be overrun with literary buffs getting their fill of the region’s top writerly talents. Click here to find out about the books that’ll be lining our shelves this summer...
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