HAVN
A must-visit for coffee connoisseurs, HAVN serves ethically-sourced brews with pleasingly eco credentials it’s the world’s first speciality coffee brand to use innovative plastic-free cups which can be recycled right down to the lids. Level up your coffee break with one of their tempting raw cake slices, which are all vegan, gluten- and sugar-free.
HAVN, Kiosk A, 1/F Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; instagram.com/havncoffee
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KollaBo
Craving Korean food but can’t decide between fried chicken or sizzling barbeque? Well, now you don’t have to. KollaBo has cleverly brought together 15 different Korean restaurant brands under one roof, meaning you’ll be spoilt for choice with a menu spanning every aspect of Korean cuisine, including delicacies like soy sauce marinated raw crab, premium Wagyu beef, fried chicken with Yangnyeom sauce and spicy tofu stew.
In December 2019, Hong Kong’s original rap band LMF celebrated its 20th anniversary by organising its own music festival, LMF XX Year Fest, in Kowloon Bay, where the group reunited to perform its hit tracks for thousands of loyal fans. Along with the band appeared a group of rising and established artists, including JB, Dough-Boy, Tommy Grooves, Seanie P and Matt Force, a pivotal moment that saw the passing of a torch to a new era of Hong Kong rappers.
“We dreamt of the day when we would finally be able to play a whole night of Cantonese rap music, and now we could finally do that,” says LMF member Chan Wai-hung, also known as Phat. Adds Leung Wing-kit, who goes by Kit, “Some of the kids these days are really good. We have to consistently practise, to keep up and make sure they don’t overtake us.”
She was, in a way, speaking to those who aspire to follow in the footsteps of her own journey. Zhao’s win at the Golden Globes was largely depicted as a victory for filmmakers from China, where realistic depictions of modern life are a rarity and even Zhao has gotten into hot water for comments viewed as critical of her homeland.
The news was viewed more than 280 million times on Weibo by the following morning and Zhao was being described in state-affiliated media as “the pride of China”. Born Zhao Ting in 1982 to a father who was the general manager of a Chinese state-owned steel company, the filmmaker recalls how her early life in Beijing gave her a hunger for wilder landscapes and, in fact, would form a strong parallel to her life’s work. Her stepmother, Song Dandan, is a well-known comedic actress who has long supported her cinematic ambitions, but even she is surprised by the extent of Zhao’s success.
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The last time we saw the cast of
Bling Empire, it was pre-pandemic 2019, and some of the biggest dramatic plot points threaded throughout season one revolved around a Louis Vuitton necklace and a penis pump. All that name-dropping, wealth-flaunting, and petty infighting made for a compelling series debut perfect, escapist reality television for when we were all isolating at home for months on end. But fast forward two years and everything is different now: in between filming seasons one and two, the entire world ground to a halt, we lost millions of loved ones to a terrifying virus, a surge in anti-Asian violence has rippled across the United States, and Los Angeles, where the series is filmed, is still in the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic.