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16 Chefs to Celebrate On International Women’s Day

Long hours, high pressure and facing the heat on a hot stove are common, but these dynamite chefs show they have what it takes to power through and get to the top.

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The future of white truffles and how MICHELIN starred restaurants cope with it

White truffle, MICHELIN starred restaurants' favourite ingredient, is endangered by global warming. Here's why and how do chefs respond to this crisis.

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Restore your yin and yang: The extraordinary Cantonese soups from Hong Kong MICHELIN restaurants

From Cantonese home to MICHELIN-starred establishments, many of their kitchens begin the morning similarly, by making one of the most time-consuming and important elements in Cantonese cuisine in time for lunch – soup.

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5 Restaurant Trends For 2023, According to MICHELIN Chefs

More inclusive beverage menus, nanotechnology-powered ingredients and back-to-basics cooking, these are some of the developments we will see in the coming year, say Asia’s leading restaurant chefs.

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2022 Year In Review: Top Chefs in Asia On Their 2022 Highlights And Hopes for 2023

Oh, what a year — nay, what an era — it’s been. As Asia finally turns a corner in the three-year-long pandemic, MICHELIN Star restaurant chefs around the region to get their reflections on the year just past and their wishes for the one ahead.

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Where to find cheese fondue in Hong Kong for winter and the story behind it

Cheese fondue is about sharing and getting together. This Swiss speciality has become a winter's favourite in Hong Kong since the opening of the classic Swiss restaurant Chesa.

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Trends to Watch: Hong Kong’s Home-grown Coffee

How does a cup of coffee affect your MICHELIN dining experience?

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What Is The MICHELIN Bib Gourmand Award?

Discover more about our award for good quality, good value cooking

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Cantonese Pastries & Cakes: MICHELIN-Starred Chinese Chefs’ Sweet Childhood Memories

White sugar sponge cakes, fermented bean curd puffs, wife cakes… these Cantonese pastries and cakes that were once very common are now increasingly hard to find. Chefs from MICHELIN restaurants in Hong Kong explains why.

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Suzhou Style Mooncakes : a story told by the chef of a Michelin-starred Zhejiang Restaurant

Each festival has a distinct set of delicacies, such as glutinous rice balls for the Chinese New Year, green dumplings (Qingtuan) for Ching Ming Festival. Shanghaiese people always celebrate Mid-Autumn festival with their favourite “Suzhou Style Mooncakes”. What does it look like? Compared to the widely-known Cantonese mooncakes, what are the differences?

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Michelin-starred Restaurants Share Their Secrets of Making Perfect Shari

Vinegar rice (Shari) is the key to success of Edomae Nigiri sushi. Chefs at Michelin-starred restaurants in Hong Kong share how they create the perfect Shari with their sensitivity to details.

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The Secret to SJM’s Star-Studded Success in Gastronomy

For over three decades, SJM has set the benchmark for Macau's culinary landscape with its Chinese and Western MICHELIN-starred restaurants and award-winning wine programme. Here’s the inside story on SJM’s success.

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The Piquant Tale of Sichuan Water-boiled Fish

Modern Sichuan cuisine is known for its spicy, pungent flavours, and water-boiled fish, or shui zhu yu, is one of the province’s most iconic dishes. Yet, traditional recipes only document the steps to making water-boiled beef rather than the fish variation with which we’re more familiar today. So why is this, and how are the two dishes related?

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Uwe Opocensky of Petrus Cooks The Perfect Eggplant Grown In Used Coffee Grounds

Chef Uwe Opocensky of one-MICHELIN-starred Petrus talks sustainability and cooks local eggplants grown in compost made from used coffee grounds.

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Making Memories Around the Table with Julien Royer

Julien Royer of three-MICHELIN-starred Odette talks about his humble roots, his favourite childhood food, and provides a first look at some of the dishes served at his new restaurant named after his mother, Claudine.

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Some Tasty and Interesting Facts about Japanese Soba

Learn more about the beloved Edo style of long and thin buckwheat noodles.

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Dragon Boat Festival: Shanghainese vs Cantonese Rice Dumplings

What’s the difference between Cantonese and Shanghainese rice dumplings? Read on for the Shanghainese rice dumpling’s origin story and reinterpretations by MICHELIN restaurants.

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「MICHELIN Guide Nara 2022」An Interview with Starred restaurants

We interviewed the chefs who won stars in MICHELIN Guide Nara 2022, asking them who they’d like to share this feeling with in their moment of triumph. We also asked them to share an episode of their lives with that person.