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South China Morning Post
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
The hottest new openings in Hong Kong, March 9-16
Yue Hing Yue Hing's signature corned beef and egg sandwich with peanut butter. Photo: Alexander Mak Forced to close in 2021 due to the passing of its owner, one of Hong Kong's most famous dai pai dong has just reopened for service. Yue Hing is best known for its fragrant milk tea and signature sandwiches stuffed with corned beef, luncheon meat, scrambled egg and peanut butter. Expect to queue for up to three hours to get a bite. You've been warned. Advertisement 82 Stanley Street, Central Yaowarat Yaowarat draws inspiration from Bangkok's Chinatown. Photo: Handout Central welcomes a buzzy Thai eatery with the opening of Yaowarat on Hollywood Road. Inspired by the renowned food street in Bangkok's Chinatown, the menu features dishes such as beef skewers and whole shrimp cake, as well as a selection of southern Thai specialities including Hat Yai fried chicken. Wash it all down with one of Yaowarat's Thai-inspired cocktails. Shop C, G/F, CentreStage, 108 Hollywood Road, Central Banh Mi Nem A cold-cut banh mi at Banh Mi Nem. Photo: Handout Attracting long queues soon after its Wan Chai opening last April, Banh Mi Nem has now expanded to a second location, in Central. The same viral banh mi are on offer here, loaded with pâté, cold cuts and pork floss flown in daily from Vietnam, sandwiched between a light and crispy baguette. Arrive early to snag one before they run out.
South China Morning Post
28-02-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Sailors and runners show their mettle in Hong Kong's Four Peaks Race
On a sunny afternoon this January, south Lantau's Cheung Sha Beach was quiet, with few people other than a couple sunbathing by the trees, another strolling along the sand. Slowly, a yacht approached from the southeastern horizon and rode the breeze to within a couple of hundred metres from shore. Out dropped an inflatable kayak, then onto that a man and a woman in shorts and T-shirts who began paddling towards the beach. Nearing the shore, the kayak was propelled forward on a wave and tossed into white surf. The woman plunged forwards, still clutching her paddle, as the man managed to stand and steady the kayak. The two recovered and pulled the vessel up onto the beach, jogged along the sand, and disappeared up a flight of steps through the trees. Advertisement By then, two men from another yacht were paddling ashore. They, too, lugged their kayak clear of the surf, strode through the soft sand and headed up the steps. Soon, more yachts came into view, bound for the same stretch of beach. All were taking part in one of Asia's toughest, wackiest feats of endurance, organised by the Aberdeen Boat Club. Four Peaks Race runners pull their kayak onto Lantau's Cheung Sha Beach before running up the hill. Photo: Alexander Mak The annual Four Peaks Race involves sailing a route through southern Hong Kong waters, with halts for crew members to run up and down hills on Lantau, Lamma and Hong Kong islands plus Ma On Shan, above Sai Kung, in the New Territories. The whole race covers about 170km of land and sea, and the peak ascents total some 2,300 metres – roughly akin to dashing up and down a mountain four times the height of Victoria Peak, and mostly along steep winding trails with rough-hewn rock steps, and sometimes in total darkness. Now 40 years old, the Four Peaks Race was the brainchild of Stephen Davies , a British ex-Marine who arrived in Hong Kong during the late 1970s. Davies drew his inspiration from Britain's Three Peaks Yacht Race, but decided the course should be completed within a weekend rather than a week. As a member of the Aberdeen Boat Club, he set about persuading the sailing committee that the idea wasn't barking mad and he wouldn't be the only idiot who would be interested. Four Peaks Race runners need to kayak from the sailboat to the beach before they start running. Photo: Alexander Mak 'I don't think most of them ever agreed that sailing a few hours to a landing point near a mountain, running up and down it in any condition that prevailed – dark, light, foggy, wet, cold, hot, whatever – then sailing a few hours to repeat … and then repeat … and then repeat, was anything other than demented,' Davies recalls in an email. 'But the committee eventually agreed to back it, provided I did all the work and the costs to the club were minimal.' Advertisement The club agreed to provide HK$500 to subsidise expenses, and Davies set about typing and copying race rules and entry forms. He was pleased to attract 15 entries, including from highly competitive sailor Keith Jacobs, who hired a helicopter to preemptively check out the peaks and the course ('Keith was a very rich man,' says Davies).
