World Disco Soup Day 2017
World Disco Soup Day 2017 By Adele Wong Did you know that every year, approximately 1.3 billion tons of food get tossed away worldwide? In Hong Kong, where we toss 3,300 tons of garbage into landfills every single day, around 36% of the waste is made up of food. In order to help raise awareness about this massive but preventable…Continue Reading
Encore: Local Veg Dinner 2017
Slow Food x Kong Yeah: Local Veg Dinner with Film Screening By Gary Suen Up a flight of stairs of a random industrial building in Kwun Tong is a small café/restaurant called “8104 Box of Life”, and every Monday evening, Kong Yeah, a small advocacy group that supports local farming and food products, puts words into actions by hosting dinners at this place…Continue Reading
Raclette Evening 2017
Slow Food – its Hong Kong peaks and the Swiss cheese By Angus Forsyth I have been a member of the Hong Kong Chapter of Slow Food for many years. The movement developed in Italy and has spread worldwide and those of us in Hong Kong who like – sometimes, most of the time or all of the time…Continue Reading
Terra Madre Day 2016
By Ida Chow This year, we held our Terra Madre Day (10 December) lunch at Osteria Felice. 15 members and guests enjoyed an Italian meal of pizza and pasta, harking back to the birthplace of Slow Food. Then we had the pleasure of hearing Adele Wong talk about her new book, Hong Kong Food & Culture from Dim Sum to…Continue Reading
Future Proteins: Taste and Learn about Edible Insects
On 29 October 2016, Slow Food Hong Kong in collaboration with LIVIN farms ran a taste-and-learn session on edible insects. Participants learnt about how insects may become the new wave of food solution as an alternative protein source. Check out the video of the event featured on Bloomberg!Continue Reading
Eat Local: Kong Yeah x Slow Food HK Vegetarian Dinner
By: Elizabeth Zhang When you don’t know where food comes from, it’s just a commodity. -Rick Bayless On Monday July 25th, Kong Yeah in collaboration with Slow Food HK, hosted an exclusive vegetarian farm-to-table dinner for our members and friends. A delicious three course menu of fresh seasonal produce was presented with ingredients nearly all sourced from within Hong Kong. Aside…Continue Reading
Slow Food Visits HK Perma Club in Clearwater Bay
September, 2015 By Elizabeth Zhang At first glance, this plot of land nestled within the trees of Clearwater Bay appears more lush jungle oasis than structured working farm. But on a recent Slow Food visit to HK Perma Club, we learned that considerable thought and planning went into the cultivation of crops from this wild-looking landscape. On a beautiful…Continue Reading
A Slow Food Visit to New Territories Grouper Fish Farm
December 22, 2015 A VISIT TO AQUACULTURE TECHNOLOGIES ASIA’S GROUPER FISH FARM By Elaine Ng On November 21, Slow Food Hong Kong visited Aquaculture Technologies Asia (ATA) to learn about their local production of sustainable seafood. Located in Lau Fau Shan in the New Territories, ATA has Hong Kong’s first large-scale indoor fish farm where the grouper is raised in…Continue Reading
CHEF TALKS 2015
March 3 to May 18, 2015 INSPIRATIONS, CHALLENGES, AND MOTIVATIONS A RECAP OF OUR FIRST CHEF TALKS by Danielle Chin It’s not often diners are able to have a deep discussion with the chefs of their favorite Michelin-starred restaurants, but from March 3 to May 18, the Chef Talks series presented by Slow Food and The Fringe Club made that…Continue Reading
Terra Madre Day 2014
December 10, 2014 Yet again a true Slow Food affair, this year’s Terra Madre Day Lunch on December 10, 2014 did not disappoint. Though the original intent of Terra Madre Day is to celebrate local food traditions and products, this year Slow Food Hong Kong recognized the birth place of the Slow Food Movement as well as the diversity…Continue Reading