Megabites: Street Food Markets

Moyo: Korean Fried Chicken

Street Food is the buzz word among food lovers in Hong Kong this April as there are two street food festivals starting this weekend. The Alley Street Food Market at PMQ starts on Saturday 23 April and will run every Saturday for initially 8 weeks, but if popular it’ll be extended.

The Lan Kwai Fong Street Food Festival is a weekend long event featuring ‘street food’ from restaurants in the area, live music and other typical LKF goodies.

Alley Street Food Market @ PMQ
The Alley Street Food Market offers an upmarket take on street food inviting well known restaurants to showcase their food and drinks ‘on the street’.

Up to 11 restaurants and bars will be participating each week, among those signed up already are: Beef & Liberty, Bread and Beast, Bread n Butter Café, Drunken Pot, First Floor, Moyo, Munchies, Nice Pops, La Paloma, Prancing Pony, Punch Detox, Topiary, VCNCY and Zuc.cch.ero

Each outlet will be offering three or four of their signature dishes and some created especially for the market. So for example you could pair one of Topiary’s fine cocktails the ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ with Moyo’s delicious Korean fried chicken and finish off your lunch with Bread n Butter’s Hong Kong crepe. After some live music or shopping, rejuvenate with a Bulleit Bourbon Sour and plate of raclette – melted cheese over potatoes and ham.

Entry is free and dishes are paid for in Guru Notes, with 1 Guru equal to HK$10, and dishes and drinks are expected to range between 4 and 10 Gurus.

Alley Street Food Market
Date: Noon-7pm, 23, 30 April, 7, 14, 21, 28 May, 4, 11 June 2016
Venue: Alley @ PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong
Tickets: Free

Bread-n-Butter-raclette

Lan Kwai Fong Street Food Festival
A mix of 50 local and international street food stalls serving a variety of food and drinks at prices starting from $25 will keep you fed and watered as you enjoy free live music and games.

Entry is free and dishes are paid for in cash.

Among those restaurants and bars confirmed to participate are Ciao Chow, Porterhouse by Laris, Brickhouse, Biorganic, Brick Lane, The Butcher’s Club, Bubba Gump, Common Room, Craftissimo, Divine Marinade, Eagle Wine, Get Fresh Soho, Gourmet Tasty, Greatnuts, Healthy Chicken, Hexapi, Hong Kong Brew House, Jin Juu, La Chouette & Soulite, Mango King, Munchies x Taboocha, Nosh, Nutastic!, Reverse Tap, Rover, Soul Bro Taste, Stacks Ice Cream, Sunny Day Kitchen, Superbowlking, The Roundhouse, 七桌子 Table Seven

Lan Kwai Fong Street Food Festival
Date: 23-24 April, 2016
Venue: Lan Kwai Fong
Tickets: Free entry
More info:
23 April – 1pm – 12am
24 April – 1pm – 10pm

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Pillow Fight

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Bring your own pillow and join in the fun!

International Pillow Fight Day
Date: 5pm, 2 April, 2016
Venue: Chater Garden
Tickets: Free

Global Float: Hong Kong’s Epic Silent Dance Party!

Global Float

A floating dance party is when a group of people download an epic 90-minute mix, meet up, put on headphones, press play at the same time, and dance around the city together. It’s an amazing, synchronous, goofy, loud-on-the-inside, silent-on-the-outside hour-and-a-half of joy. For the fourth year in a row, the Global Float is happening in dozens of cities around the world, one after another.

Global Float: Hong Kong’s Epic Silent Dance Party!
Date: 9pm, 18 July, 2015
Venue: Pier No 9
Tickets: Free
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1462587654055339/

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival

The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival takes place on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront from the 3 July 2015 (Friday) to 5 July 2015 (Sunday). The carnival features the Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Races in Victoria Harbour and a social and family fun day on the East Tsim Sha Tsui promenade

Three days of intense racing will fill the harbour with a profusion of colour and the sounds of drummers and fans urging paddlers on to the finish line. 4,000 paddlers comprising 411 teams from 143 dragon boat clubs, with 311 local teams and 100 overseas teams from 13 countries, including Australia, Canada, Mainland China, Dubai, Japan, Korea, Macau, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the UK.

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival
Date:
3-5 July 2015 (Friday to Sunday)
Venue: Victoria Harbour, East Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Tickets: Free to watch
More info:
3 July: Noon to 5pm
4 July: 8:30am to 6pm
5 July: 9am to 5pm

OMFESTHK

OMFESTHK is an outdoor celebration of yoga, meditation and wellbeing.

OMFESTHK
Date: 3-8pm 8 August, 2015
Venue: Central Harbourfront
Tickets: Free