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The meaning of “farm-to-table” has changed in Hong Kong in recent years. The practice used to be more common in down-to-earth places, but has come to be associated with overpriced produce and Michelin-star restaurants. However, a weekend gathering at Blue Girl Organic Farm in Tai Tong, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, showed that the true concept of farm-to-table is still alive a...

I often think that we take rice for granted. It is seen as a boring blank canvas for a far more exciting palette of flavours coming from side dishes and main proteins of myriad tastes and textures. In some circles, rice is villainised, painted as a low-value carb that offers calories, a food coma, and not much else. We often forget that rice was once a luxury – a fact I was remi...

Michael Larkin is the restaurant manager of French bistro Lala in Hong Kong’s Central neighbourhood. He spoke to Andrew Sun. My dad is Irish, my mum is Romanian. We grew up mostly in Romania, where the food was super hearty, super rustic and very flavourful. In the winter, we had a lot of stew and soups; in the summer, we had a lot of barbecues. At home, my mom could burn cereal...

Every time chef André Chiang calls it a day, something big follows. In 2018, he closed his two-Michelin-star Restaurant André in Singapore, to focus on Raw in Taipei – soon after, that restaurant gained its second Michelin star. In 2024, he “retired” again, recasting Raw as a culinary academy for young Asian chefs, and returned to Singapore to make his next moves. In the Lion Ci...