Article and photos by Diane Espley The November Slow Food Hong Kong Happy Hour get-together on Monday, 7 November 2022, was small, intimate, and very convivial event! It was organised by Walter Kern at the lovely Kee Wah Tearoom in Wan Chai, in the beautiful Grade III Historic Building, with Chef Ringo Tao in attendance. Some new, very interesting members…Continue Reading

On 17 September 2022, a cozy group of Slow Food Hong Kong members and friends gathered in the studio of Chef Samantha Tam of Heimao Foods to learn to make Chinese pastries. Samantha, who studied pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu and is a founding member of Slow Food Cooks’ Alliance Hong Kong, just produced more than 4,000 of her popular…Continue Reading

Article and photos by Michele Wisla “There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” – Annie Leonard As we started off for our afternoon tour and workshop on 28 May 2022 at Urban Mushroom, a company & farm creating sustainable local produce in Hong Kong, we took note that it’s the rainy…Continue Reading

Article by Elizabeth Zhang I recently started Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma” and in the early chapters, he discusses purchasing a steer (named simply No. 534), to follow this one animal from birth to slaughter, in order to better understand the modern food production chain in the US. To borrow a quote from his writing: What grocery-store item is more silent…Continue Reading

Back to the Roots: Food & Community – A Special Terra Madre Dinner at Frank’s Article and photos by Jane Meijnen Terra Madre means Mother Earth. Terra = land, earth, ground, soil. Madre = mother. In Wikipedia, Terra Madre is a network of food communities launched by Slow Food and the intent is to provide small-scale farmers, breeders, fishers, and…Continue Reading

Slow Boat to Hakka: Eco-tour and Farm Visit to Lai Chi Wo Article and photos by Peter Chang (original text from his blog Diary of a Growing Boy) If there’s one thing that we haven’t done much during the two-year pandemic, it’s activities in the Great Outdoors. Unlike many friends with kids, I have been mainly staying in – initially…Continue Reading

Ode to Lard: Dinner at Heritage Meats Article by Gary Suen “Eat less of the wrong meat” advocated Bennet Lee, founder of the Hong Kong-based Heritage Meats, when someone in our group asked a question about the global trend of putting less reliance on meat as our daily diet. We were at his shop in Repulse Bay as part of…Continue Reading

Slow Wine Tasting with Il Borro Article and photos by Danny Grimshaw A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…well it has certainly felt like a long lost memory since the last gathering of the Slow Food faithful in Hong Kong. On a rainy and blustery evening in mid-October 2021 after surviving back to back typhoons, it was…Continue Reading