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Charmaine Mok
Deputy culture editor
Charmaine Mok is the Deputy Culture Editor at SCMP and the desk's food and wine specialist. She has been working in food media since 2007, and most memorably drank 50 coffees over three days in the name of research. She’s devoted to telling unexpected stories of the dining scene in Asia and those who shape it, and is always in the mood for noodles and/or a cheeky beverage.
Simu Liu made a strong point, but he deserves respect for calling on the online community not to harass drinks brand Bobba’s founders.
In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we take a deep dive into Chinese food culture, its history and how it influences cuisines from around the region.
A coffee festival featuring tours, workshops and talks, a spot promising ‘better beef’ and a new tofu specialist await hungry Hongkongers.
Three Singapore bars, two each in Hong Kong and Tokyo one in Guangzhou among bars ranked 51-100 in 2024 by World’s 50 Best Bars.
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Kit Cheung and Joseph Cheung are opening the Tankyu Distillery in the northern region of Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, in 2025.
Coffee fiends flying out of Hong Kong are in for a treat, a Kowloon favourite has crossed the harbour and the OG Fineprint has expanded.
A popular bar is closing, a French restaurant launches a brunch and a Michelin-star Italian restaurant showcases a new menu this weekend.
Running until October 5, the festival involves four ‘bing sutt’ cafes in Hong Kong and London and aims to spread Hong Kong food culture.
Check out our restaurant and bar picks for Mid-Autumn Festival feasts, from traditional Chinese meals to lobster and cocktails.
Picture this: while watching a cult Japanese food film, you get a craving for the dishes you see displayed on screen. At Savour Cinema in Hong Kong, you get served exactly that.
Li combines his French and Chinese fine-dining training at his new Hong Kong restaurant Jee, where he and mentor Siu Hin-chi are devising complicated twists on classic dishes.
We examine Chinese superstitions and traditions about foods to eat and avoid in pregnancy, some of them still practised today, others not – such as eating the head of a white-haired dog.
New restaurants in Hong Kong to try in September serve a variety of Chinese cuisines and Japanese food, as well as tapas and vegetarian dishes.
A Charli XCX ‘brat’-themed matcha latte, a Shanghainese and Sichuanese mash-up, a festival dedicated to sardines and other Portuguese food – it is all happening in Hong Kong this weekend.
Restaurant A, recently opened by Raw’s former head chef Alain Huang, is a notable addition to the ranks of one-Michelin-star restaurants in Taiwan, which now number 40.
You may not have been up at 4am on July 27 (or maybe you were) for a McDonald’s McGriddles sandwich, but at these five places in Hong Kong making their own versions, there are no early-morning queues.
Hong Kong coffee culture gets an extra shot with five new cafes that serve up a wide selection of cakes, snacks and hot dishes, and of course, great lattes and more.
From a 14-course steak brunch for two to a two-hour chocolate-making workshop to sampling the hottest noodle trend in Japan, some of the best food and drink options this weekend in Hong Kong.
After Japanese egg salad sandwiches (tamago sando) started appearing in US 7-Elevens without Kewpie mayonnaise, Charmaine Mok visited the Kewpie mayonnaise museum to discover its secrets.
An English breakfast pizza collaboration, Japanese barbecue served by buff staff, a social enterprise bakery cafe – there is no shortage of new food and drink experiences to have this weekend.
This weekend in Hong Kong, you can try afternoon tea with Doraemon, Asian food with a Korean twist, a seven-course charity dinner, cocktails from two veterans, and catch a private chef at large.
In business nearly 120 years, Liu Ma Kee closed almost overnight on July 18. Two weeks earlier, a public health alert about bacteria levels in a batch of its fermented tofu had led to a rush of product returns.
Coa dethroned as No 1 on the ranking for 2024 by another Hong Kong bar, newcomer Bar Leone, which went straight into top place. Macau earned its first spot on the list, and Singapore again had the most venues.
Shingo Gokan, owner of 10 bars spanning Japan, China and the US, talks about the moments leading to the opening of his eponymous new cocktail bar in Hong Kong’s Central neighbourhood.
Whether it’s Chinese, Japanese, pizza, posh hotel seafood or any other, buffets are much-loved by diners and everyone has their own strategy – including ones that help you avoid awkward conversations.
