Tea Tasting and Blending Workshop with Plantation by teakha Article and photos by Michele Wisla The relaxing atmosphere at Plantation by teakha in Sai Ying Pun, a craft tea shop, comfortably fit the Slow Food members that gathered on Saturday, June 23 for a tea tasting and blending workshop. The space, both minimalist and cozy, felt like the perfect place…Continue Reading

Korean Temple Food Workshop with Mina Park By May Nogoy Mina Park, Hong Kong’s treasured South Korean American culinary entrepreneur, recently collaborated in the creation of a conscious kitchen with Slow Food at the House of Madison showroom. Her aim is to share her love of preparing temple food and utilise her training with temple food masters during various seasonal…Continue Reading

Cultivating Micro Algae: Site Visit and Lunch Article and photos by Michele Wisla “Let food be thy medicine and medicine shall be thy food.” – Hippocrates Hippocrates is known as the first person to say that diseases were caused naturally from food and lifestyle rather than from superstition or punishment from the gods, so he would have been excited to…Continue Reading

Moveable Feasts with Craig Au-Yeung of Taste Library By Janice Leung Hayes Over Easter weekend, we were fortunate to have Craig Ying-chai Au-Yeung introduce the Slow Food scene in Mainland China to us. Craig is a Slow Food China ambassador, and curator of Taste Library, Asia’s largest library dedicated to food publications, and the location of our event. However, Hongkongers…Continue Reading

Fromages Français: Cheese Tasting with ON Dining Article and photos by Michele Wisla “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” – French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Brillat-Savarin, a brie cheese made from cow’s milk that’s enriched with cream seems the kind of decadent cheese that would be named for the famous French gourmand. It…Continue Reading

Encore: Sichuan Spices Dinner with Chef Deng Article and photos by Michele Wisla China is the place for Food. But Sichuan is the place for Flavour. Slow Food Hong Kong was again immersed in Sichuan, the land of flavour for an encore dinner with Chef Deng on February 6, 2018. The diverse and multiple flavours the province is known for, sometimes…Continue Reading

Terra Madre Day 2017: Traditional Italian Lunch By Angus Forsyth On Terra Madre Day at the Trattoria Monteverdi Restaurant at 6A, High Street, Sai Ying Poon, Hong Kong at 12:45 pm on Sunday, the 9th December 2017, I attended for the careful and well imagined Slow Food repast and dictated my notes for this report to Slow Food Hong Kong….Continue Reading

Encore: Fish Ageing Lunch Presentation with Max Levy By Mina Park For all of us who assume that raw fish has to be fresh to be good, Chef Max Levy has something to teach us. On 2 December 2017, Slow Food Hong Kong arranged for Chef Levy to teach us a thing or two on dry ageing fish. Slow Food…Continue Reading

Kimchi Workshop with Yong Soo Do By Virginia Yee On an overcast Saturday morning on 18 November 2017, a group of around 25 Slow Food members and guests ventured to Wanchai’s Bib N Hops restaurant where chef Yong Soo Do explained the essence of making Korean kimchi. “You don’t like kimchi?”, a member overheard what I said about kimchi, obviously…Continue Reading

The Subtleties of Sichuan Spices: Dinner with Chef Deng By Andrew Sun / David Lai Slow Food Hong Kong presented a very successful event at Deng G Bistro & Baiju Bar on 13 September 2017. ‘The Subtleties of Sichuan Spices’ dinner in the company of Chef Deng Huadong was fully booked after only a week. The 30 lucky guests enjoyed…Continue Reading