FREE Your Guide to Hong Kong Living FOOD & DRINK March/April 2018 March/April The Best Instagram Spots in Hong Kong Where to Buy Affordable Art for Your Home The Coolest Creative Classes for Kids The Biggest and Best Events this Arts Month localiiz.com 1 FOOD & DRINK 2 Content 2 Welcome 4 Save the Date: What’s On in Hong Kong 5 The Biggest and Best Events this Hong Kong Arts Month Art & Culture 9 Five Minutes with Street Artist, Szabotage 11 The Best Instagram Spots in Hong Kong 4 11 Food & Drink 14 New On the Menu: 5 Hot Places to Try 16 Hong Kong’s Best Wine Tasting Courses and Events Health & Wellness 19 A Guide to Hong Kong’s Best Dance Classes 22 Why Small Talk Makes You 14 16 19 Happier and More Productive Style & Beauty 24 Our 5 Favourite Hair Salons 26 Where to Buy the Best Sevens Costumes Family & Home 27 The Coolest Creative Classes for Kids in Hong Kong 30 Where to Buy Affordable Art 27 30 for Your Home 32 Property Picks - Stylish Pads for Art Lovers The Localiiz Team Localiiz Digest, Issue 07 March - April 2018 Localiiz.com (HK) Limited Managing Editor: Sophie Pettit Office 7, theDesk, 14/F One Hysan Avenue, Editorial Assistant: Jenny Leung Copyright 2018 Localiiz.com (HK) Limited. 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The Chinese New Year celebrations may As if that wasn’t enough to get us excited, be over, but we’ve certainly got a lot to look we’ve also got the Rugby Sevens to look forward to in the 852 as Hong Kong Arts forward to this April, and we all know what Month returns, bringing with it a cracking that means — costumes and carnage! Find out line-up of events spanning the whole creative where to buy the coolest, weirdest, and most spectrum (see what’s in store on page 6). hilarious get-ups to grace the South Stand on page 26. We hope our arty issue of the Localiiz Digest gives you lots of inspiration on how to As always, we’d like to thank all of our celebrate creativity and nurture your own readers and supporters who continue talents here in the city — whether that means to follow our adventures on Facebook, snapping some incredible shots of our city Instagram, and Twitter every day. We wouldn’t on Instagram (with a little help from the pros be here without you! So here’s to you — and a on page 11), scouting for gorgeous prints to fabulous Year of the Dog! decorate your apartment (we’ve sussed out the best stores on page 30), or watching your little ones dip their toes in the world of art, music, dance, or theatre. Sophie Pettit, Managing Editor [email protected] Show Us Your City - Tag #localiiz www.bit.ly/localiiz-subscribe We love nothing more than glimpsing into Hong Kong life through the eyes of @localiiz or #localiiz our readers. Each week, we enjoy watching hundreds of fabulous shots fill up our facebook.com/localiiz Instagram feed as you share your adventures in the 852. @localiiz or #localiiz Picking our favourite Snap of the Week is never an easy task with so many action-packed, facebook.com/groups/ creative, and striking photos to choose from – all expathongkong in a bid to win your very own Localiiz umbrella and be featured on our social media. 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We also provide integrated promotion packages for businesses that @eatravelovegram want to make a big impact in a short @diegovista_ time frame, such as product launches or events. If you would like to find out more, @glennrobsmith email us at [email protected]. 2 FOOD & DRINK localiiz.com 3 WHAT’S ON SAVE THE DATE What’s On in Hong Kong Don’t miss your chance to grab tickets, register, or sign up for your favourite events with the Localiiz guide to What’s On in Hong Kong. If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, then catch the best events at http://bit.ly/localiiz-whats-on. THE 46TH HONG KONG ARTS FESTIVAL ART CENTRAL 18+ CENTRAL From now until March 24, our city will be Hong Kong’s most stylish and cutting- Things will be heating up at Central swamped in arts and culture during The edge art event returns at the Central Harbourfront from April 5 to 8 as 18+ 46th Hong Kong Arts Festival, where art Harbourfront this March 27 to April 1. Central tackles the hush-hush subject of lovers from all around the globe come Art Central is sure to fill up your day with sex and pleasure through a spectacular together to indulge in endless exhibitions large-scale installations, engaging talks, line-up of Las Vegas style stage shows, a and live performances. Spanning across and some of the finest artwork from the VR play-zone, seduction workshops, and multiple forms such as theatre, Chinese hottest names around. Featuring over numerous photo ops. There will even be a opera, and dance, the festival’s show- 100 leading galleries from all around the chance to meet some of the biggest adult stopping schedule of spectacular events world, the festival is also a foodie paradise stars from all over the world. Fighting will keep you entertained all month long. during Arts Month, with StrEAT Central to challenge the strongly male-oriented Ticket sales have already begun, so hurry showcasing some of the city’s hottest and vulgar perception of adult expos, 18+ and book your ticket now on URBTIX or eateries in an alfresco dining experience. Central is the city’s first adult-themed Ticketflap. So what are you waiting for? Get on carnival and is fully charged to break Ticketflap and bag yourself a ticket. taboos, so grab your tickets on Ticketflap. 4 WHAT’S ON Art Central March April Star Wars Episode IV: A New Taste of Hong Kong LANY Live in Hong Kong Hope in Concert March 22 – 25 April 3 March 1 Harbour Art Fair Hong Kong International Film Hardwell China Residency at Festival March 23 – 26 Club Cubic Until April 5 March 3 Asia Contemporary Art Show 18+ Central March 24 – 26 Women’s Adventure Film April 5 – 8 Tour The 46th Hong Kong Arts Hong Kong Rugby Sevens March 4 Festival April 6 – 8 Until March 24 Hong Kong French Theatre Harbour Arts Sculpture Park Festival HKwalls Street Art Festival March 7 – 10 March 24 – April 1 Until April 11 Hong Kong Restaurant Week The Chainsmokers Live in Hong Kong Whisky Festival March 8 – 18 Hong Kong April 14 March 27 John Legend Live in Hong Spartan Race Kong Art Central April 14 March 10 March 27 - April 1 The Week Music Festival Russell Peters Deported James Blunt the Afterlove April 15 – 21 Asia Tour World Tour Cirque du Soleil March 29 March 13 April 19 – June 3 Art Basel Hong Kong Flower Show The Script Live in Hong Kong March 29 – 31 March 16 – 25 April 24 Sónar Hong Kong Katy Perry Witness: The Tour March 17 March 30 Hong Kong International Film Zedd Echo Tour Live in Hong Festival Kong March 19 – April 5 March 31 localiiz.com 5 ART & CULTURE Art Central The Biggest and ThisBest Hong Kong ArtsEvents Month Hong Kong Arts Month returns this March to fill our urban jungle with explosive waves of creativity all around. Showcasing a plethora of work from world-renowned artists, stars on the rise, and a wealth of home-grown talent, we’re definitely in for a treat. So whip out your diaries and start planning your month. The 46th Hong Kong Arts Festival The Hong Kong French Until March 7 - 10, locations vary and tickets Filling up our city with all kinds of art Theatre Festival range from $120 - $300, www.thkftf.com and culture from now until March 24, the After huge success from last year, the Hong 46th Hong Kong Arts Festival brings an Kong French Theatre Festival returns with Hong Kong International international programme of multiple art five amazing performances taking place from Film Festival forms spanning theatre, Chinese opera, March 7 to 10.