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Lunchbox: A Hong Kong TangoAmy Ma The Wall Street Journal 01/08/2011 | Empty wine bottles sell for £300 in China Telegraph 01/08/2011 |
 Hong Kong’s newest meat-lover’s haunt brings a little sass to the typical steakhouse experience. Named after the popular Argentine dance, Tango feels more like a backyard barbecue in Buenos Aires than the white-tablecloth business-lunch setting often associated with the city’s classic steakhouses. In place of the leather banquettes and masculine décor, wooden high-top tables sit on a terrace and a large wood-and-coal parilla – a traditional South American grill that can be moved closer or farther from the flame — is in the back. |  China's booming wine market has created an astounding demand for empty bottles of famous wines, with fraudsters paying up to £300 for a good bottle that can be filled with a less celebrated vintage. |
UK drunks to be given 'booze zone' so they can drink in peace Telegraph 01/07/2011 | Lunchbox: A Lesson on GalettesAmy Ma The Wall Street Journal 01/03/2011 |
 Drunks in Colchester could be given a "booze zone" under controversial plans to keep problem drinkers away from other members of the public. |  When you enter a French restaurant in Hong Kong and find 80% of the diners speaking French, that’s a good sign. La Crêperie, which opened last summer, is becoming a regular hangout for Francophiles craving an authentic taste of Brittany. But there’s a price to pay: During peak hours, be ready to wait roughly 20 minutes to be seated. |
Inside Amigo, Hong Kong's most resilient restaurantDoris Tsang CNNGo.com 01/03/2011 | Korean restaurant in Hong Kong added to Michelin Guide The Korea Herald 01/03/2011 |
 One of the poshest and oldest restaurants in town, Amigo has stubbornly refused to change since the 1960s. That includes the waitstaff |  A Korean restaurant in Hong Kong has been added to the latest edition of the Michelin Guide, the world's oldest and best-known hotel and restaurant guide. |
A Chef's Favorite Hong Kong EatsAmy Ma The Wall Street Journal 12/30/2010 | Santa at home in Hong KongPeter Brieger Sin Chew Jit Poh 12/23/2010 |
 Hong Kong restaurateur and chef Tony Cheng has enjoyed a swift rise to the top of the city’s food scene. Just three years ago, the now 28-year old Hong Kong native quit his career as a banker for a new life in the kitchen. |  Hong Kong is an unlikely home for Santa Claus, with its sub-tropical climate and status as an autonomous region within communist China. |
Food waste at Chinese banquets is on the rise, survey finds Monsters and Critics.com 12/23/2010 | 5 rules to Hong Kong Christmas decorationsZoe Li CNNGo.com 12/23/2010 |
 More a fifth of the food served up at Chinese banquets in Hong Kong ends up being thrown away, and the waste is increasing by the year, according to a survey released Thursday. |  You know you're in Hong Kong for Christmas when you find yourself bombarded by big, bright and fantastical displays. 'Tis the season for every shopping mall to compete for the most outrageous, most tourist-drawing, most newsworthy holiday decorations, each one of them with a distinctly Hong Kong feel. Here is a guide to what makes a popular Hong Kong Christmas display: |
Unemployed get another jobless benefit - free yoga AP 12/22/2010 | Dreaming of a Hong Kong ChristmasCATHY YAN The Wall Street Journal 12/22/2010 |
 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The women snuggle into nests of pillows and blankets. A light breeze, like a mother blowing on a baby's boo-boo, falls from ceiling fans and tickles their backs. The room is dark, silent, until they crawl out of child's pose and chant, "Omm." |  When deciding where to sample the spirit of Christmas in Hong Kong, the Tangs had much to choose from. They could have visited the 20-foot-tall replica of Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia cathedral, designed by a Dutch paper sculptor, at the Elements mall in West Kowloon. Or they could have wandered among the 100 Nordman fir Christmas trees, shipped in from the Prince of Denmark's private estate, at the Pacific Place mall in the Central district. Or perhaps they could have viewed the two-story rotating wooden head created by street artist Michael Lau at the Times Square mall in the shopping mecca of Causeway Bay. |
Sotheby's Hong Kong sells wine worth $6.7 mn in 2010 Sify 12/22/2010 | Lonely teen hearts in Hong KongLeslie Tang Channel News Asia 12/22/2010 |
 The Sotheby's auction house said Tuesday that it sold a record $6.76 million of wine in Hong Kong in 2010, more than it sold the world over in 2009. |  Social workers in Hong Kong are urging caution after a survey found one in ten teens find casual sex acceptable during the holidays. |
To Eat Less, Imagine Eating MoreGreg Miller Science Magazine 12/14/2010 | Andrew Lloyd Webber to auction wine collection in Hong Kong AFP 12/13/2010 |
 Before dipping your hand into that bowl of M&Ms at the holiday party, think about what you're about to do. A lot. A new study finds that people who imagine themselves consuming many pieces of candy eat less of the real thing when given the chance. The finding, say experts, could lead to the development of better weight-loss strategies. |  Andrew Lloyd Webber, the British composer known for smash-hit musicals including "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats", will sell part of his wine collection at auction in Hong Kong next month. |
A Bite of New York, in Hong KongAmy Ma The Wall Street Journal 12/13/2010 | Tripping: Hong Kong Melbourne Weekly 12/13/2010 |
 Hong Kong’s newest food craving is an extra serving of New York. The local culinary scene is abuzz about “New York style” as a growing collection of restaurants in Hong Kong associate themselves with the Big Apple to draw in customers. |  Hong Kong can be a dangerous place – for those, like me, with a serious dumpling addiction. The little parcels of steamed goodness, so sweetly fragrant, moist and impossibly moreish, are so much more than their individual parts, whether pork, prawn, scallops or more. |
One Night, Three Stars, Countless TearsAmy Ma The Wall Street Journal 12/13/2010 | |
 Vincent Thierry moved to Hong Kong in 2005 to serve as executive chef of Caprice restaurant. Prior to that, he was the sous chef of Le Cinq in Paris’ Four Seasons Hotel George V. As told to Amy Ma. | |
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