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Thirty-one-year-old Luke Ng Cheuk-hang has travelled around the world in search of culinary inspiration. The Hong Kong-born chef, who is currently based in Paris, has cooked in kitchens across France, the UK, Ukraine, Japan and Hong Kong. Yet at Chez Elisa, the Parisian bistro where Ng is head chef, it is his Cantonese dishes – such as his Yangzhou fried rice – that have earned ...

A wish is a deeply personal thing, often fleeting and silent. But sometimes, a wish is a collective endeavour, a bold and communal call for action. Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree installation is both. The piece – which Ono has staged more than 250 times in more than 35 countries – draws on a Japanese tradition that invites visitors at Buddhist temples to scribble their hopes and dreams on...

We have selected seven Lifestyle stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. The TCM influencers demystifying ancient Chinese healing practices for Gen Z The rise of “Chinamaxxing” and a growing appetite for cupping reels and the like has launched traditional Chinese medicine (T...

To order a seafood paella for dinner in Valencia, Spain, is to make two mistakes at once in the eyes of locals, who are ever conscious of tradition. First, neither seafood nor fish belongs in a paella. Second, paella is traditionally only served here at lunchtime, preferably on Sundays. Everyone eats together, using wooden spoons straight from the large pan. Paella is more than ...

There she stands, in that iconic hot pink gown, arms thrown open wide as if to both offer herself to the world and embrace what the world offers – love, applause, admiration and diamonds, which are, as she sang from the body-hugging confines of that pink silk in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a girl’s best friend. It is not her, of course, though it is the dress, designed by William ...