Hong Kong

Chinese government demands Marriott digital shutdown

January 2018 witnessed the shutdown of Marriott China’s website and app at the request of Chinese officials. Lasting one week,…

McDonald’s gets digital with futuristic dining strategy

Over the past 12 months, consumers have seen foodservice giant McDonald's undergo a revamp. A new dining strategy, introduced by…

China’s expanding waste levels: how food delivery is creating white pollution

Disposable chopsticks, spoons and plates: these are the items that have propelled the Green Volunteer League of Chongquing, an environmental NGO,…

The mooncake marvel: China’s Mid-Autumn Festival gets bigger, healthier and more commercial

The mooncake: a small round pastry, traditionally filled with red-mung bean paste and duck egg, inlaid with intricate designs and…

Grape over the grain: the rise of wine consumption in China

Following the death of chairman Mao in 1978, the past four decades have seen a previously isolated China evolve and…

HOFEX 2017 review and a new FCSI APD board announced

With a total exhibiting space of 66,000m2, HOFEX 2017 Hong Kong, which wrapped on on 11 May, was deemed "a tremendous success"…

McDonald’s announces major franchise deal in China

The deal, worth $2.08bn and involving Citic Limited, Citic Capital Holdings, the Carlyle Group and McDonald’s Corporation, will see the…

Project profile: The American Club Hong Kong

When small groups of US businessmen in Hong Kong turned their social meetings into a formal club back in 1925 they could hardly have…

Sticking to innovation

Selling encyclopaedias seems an unlikely path for a cookware innovator. Yet it’s the one that Stanley Cheng took as a…

Vicky Lau named Asia's top female chef

Lau, who opened Tate Dining Rooms in Hong Kong’s Central district in 2012, came to cooking from a career as…