On Getting Started I never really planned this. I didn’t do baking when I was young. As a child, I loved celebrating and I still do. I loved to host parties and decorate everything. When I was at college, I’d always look in the bakeries and see the cute cupcakes. I just felt like I...
This Is Not a Film
Gala Presentations The Deep Blue Sea (UK, 2011) Writer-director Terence Davies adapts Terence Rattigan’s tragically romantic play, retelling a heartbreaking love triangle. A young woman (Rachel Weisz) is happily married to an older, professionally stable High Court judge. But her life is...
Mar 23 2012
Working in an open kitchen in New York’s Daniel, Cheng quickly realized he enjoyed the aspects of entertainment and exchange where customers could watch every step of the culinary process. He learned to read the subtlest facial expressions as restaurant patrons sampled fares he’d...
Chez Patrick is relocating to a bigger, better, and much more luxurious location in Wanchai’s The East building. The restaurant will make its move on the 31st of March, and plans to reopen at the end of April. Executive Chef Patrick Goubier explains, “after six wonderful years in Peel...
After having been replaced by yet another designer goods store, the HMV flagship Central location opens its doors today. Skewed over the third and fourth floors of the Entertainment Building, HMV’s new location is on the corner of Queen’s Road Central and Wyndham Street. Besides a great...
Mar 20 2012
Window Café
Roll ‘em Up The chefs at Papi use Italian eggs exclusively imported from free-range chickens living the life of Riley in Northern Italy. The reason they go to this length is because these free-range Italian eggs have a signature sweetness that isn’t easily replicated. Besides having...
HK Magazine: How many Hong Kong Rugby Sevens have you been involved in? Gordon Tietjens: I was involved in 1983 as a player; outside of that I’ve been involved in every Rugby Sevens tournament since 1994 as a coach. It’s changed quite a bit over the years, but whether the sponsors are...
Mar 14 2012
The exhibition will showcase some of InstaYay’s brightest new stars, and the very best of the collective’s photographs. Check it out at V13 Bar (13 Old Bailey St., Central, 8208-1313), or visit the facebook page for more details. The opening party tonight (March 14) starts at 5pm....
Mar 14 2012
Para/Site Art Space
Saamlung Gallery Reputable and renowned art curator Robin Peckham has masterminded a success in this relatively new full-service gallery. According to Peckham, Saamlung fills a niche that Hong Kong had been sorely lacking prior to its arrival: an internationally oriented, independently operated art...
Photography is all about telling a story, and “The Underground Scene”— an exhibition spotlighting Hong Kong as a haven for street photographers and celebrating photography’s exciting and endless evolution—hints at the epic story behind the culture of street photography...
Feb 24 2012