In a city with food offerings as ethnically diverse as in Hong Kong and celebrity chefs multiplying restaurant concepts from overseas, we often overlook the local cuisine. Cantonese food is widespread in Hong Kong…

Few desserts yield such a sense of victory and satisfaction as homemade sour cherry pie. Not only are sour cherries incredibly hard to get, the job of pitting them individually is as tedious as…

An understated entrance on busy Hollywood Road marked by a few flapping curtains hides one of Hong Kong’s most reputable sushi restaurants. Stepping into the very Zen and minimalistic oasis that is Sushi Sase…

Steaming is a traditional cooking method in Asia and its benefits are well known – no need for any use of oil or fat and it preserves nutrients. While few people outside of the…

Revisiting Budapest was almost as good as seeing it for the first time 11 years ago. The former Eastern Bloc had once been my home for 6 months during my studies and I feared…