Turmeric Is 2016’s Superfood Of The Year: Here’s Why It’s So Powerful
If you’re a committed health enthusiast, then you’re probably already familiar with turmeric, and there’s a good chance that you already include it in your healthy lifestyle repertoire. Or perhaps you are just starting your wellness…
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Meat Without Cows? These Game-Changing Food Tech Startups Are Revolutionizing The Way We Eat
Three years ago, Bill Gates famously stated that by 2050, global demand for meat will increase significantly as the world’s population balloons to more than nine billion people. This is not tenable: the livestock industry is responsible…
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Everything You Need to Know About Aquafaba aka Miracle Bean Water
Any vegan cook worth their salt will have war stories when it comes to vegan baking: replacing eggs is no easy feat. Sure there's apple sauce and flax seeds, but let's face it, they are hardly ideal solutions. Turns out, there's a…
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How To Choose A Personal Trainer: 5 Foolproof Rules
Finding a personal trainer in Hong Kong feels like choosing your future life partner through Tinder: the options are limitless, the pics are photoshopped and there's a lot of style but not much substance. With the exponential growth of…
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Green Queen Recipes: The Perfect Mediterranean Tabbouleh Salad
In our household, we live on tabbouleh. It's the kind of thing we make in bulk and always have in the fridge. This Middle Eastern salad makes for an ideal lunch, a light dinner and it even works as a filling savory snack. These days,…
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#FoodWithAStory – One Star House Party Redefines The Restaurant Pop Up, Creates Food Poetry
June 2017 Udpate: One Star House Party is back in Hong Kong with a 5-week Pop Up restaurant from June 30th to August 4th with an 8 course tasting menu featuring a dish from each of the restaurants they have built over the past year in…
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Perfect Smoothie: Where To Find The Best Protein & Superfood Powders For Your Daily Boost
Remember when you didn't understand what all the fuss about smoothies was about? It used to be that smoothies and blenders were the purview of health nuts. Today, a breakfast smoothie is commonplace, everyone's got a Vitamix and smoothie…
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Protein Primer: Everything You Need To Know About The Muscle Macro
What Is Protein?
Protein is one of the three macronutrients that provide energy, aka calories, for the body. The other two macronutrients are fats and carbohydrates.
Each gram of protein contains 4 calories, as compared to a…
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Green Queen Guide To Raw Vegan Resources In Hong Kong
As the healthy dining options in our fair city continue to grow at an exponential rate, the raw vegan culinary scene has been blossoming of late. This once niche cuisine is becoming more mainstream thanks to efforts from some fantastic…
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Global Food Waste Trends: Solutions & Inspiration
It is unthinkable that in a world where so many go hungry, food wastage is such a massive problem. And yet, here we are. An astounding 30 to 40% of all the food that is produced across the planet is wasted. Beyond the moral arguments…
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Hong Kong Best Women-Only Gyms & Fitness Programmes
New gyms and studios are springing up all over the city: working out is officially the new going out, just check your sneaker collection. And while we are all for unisex fitness, sometimes a woman-only space is de rigueur. We have…
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7 Ways To Improve Your Sleep Hygiene: How To Get Better ZZZs
If there's one thing we can all afford to improve, it's our sleep quality. When we are busy, stressed and distracted, a good night's sleep is the first thing to go. It is really easy to compromise on sleep as the long term consequences of…
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Easy Breezy Green Pea & Spinach Summer Soup
Thrilled to share another great recipe that home chef Laura Williams of My Little Hong Kong Kitchen concocted for Green Queen. This is a delicious summer soup, ideal for the hot weather. It is a cinch to make and is very filling,…
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Hong Kong’s Best Bars For Local Craft Brews
Hong Kong's craft beer revolution shows no sign of abating. The city's appetite for all things beer continues to grow exponentially. With so many new local breweries producing so many wonderful new beers, attempting to track down that…
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You’re Running All Wrong! A Marathon Runner Finds Relief With The Pose Method
I assume that you clicked into this article because you love running. But does running love you? Do you often suffer from muscle fatigue after your run or worse, do you have chronic pain in your joints or ligaments? If so, the problem…
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HOME – Eat to Live Menu Lowdown: What To Order At The Plant-Based Mecca
July 2017 Update: HOME has now closed down.
HOME - Eat To Live officially opened its doors just a few days ago and it's already the most talked about restaurant in town. No surprises there: HOME - Eat To Live heralds a new era of…
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Hong Kong’s Best Farmers’ Markets For Organic Produce
We confess that we are farmers' market junkies. No matter where we travel to in the world, our first stop is always the local market. We have what must be tens of thousands of photos of vegetables from stalls in dozens of countries. There's…
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My Little Hong Kong Kitchen: Vietnamese Noodle Salad
There's nothing like a nice, refreshing, zesty cold salad on a warm summer day. Inspired by her recent travels to Vietnam, the land of vibrant, fresh, simple dishes, home chef Laura Williams has created this colorful Vietnamese…
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5 Reasons We Heart Love Hair HK, Central’s New Eco Hair Salon
We have been waiting for years to find that magical hairdressers salon where a soft-spoken, uber-caring fairy hair-mother would wave her magic wand and transform our locks into a shiny, bouncy, perfectly colored mop of gorgeousness…
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Hong Kong’s Best Vegan &Vegetarian Dim Sum Spots
There is no place like Hong Kong when it comes to yum cha madness. The diversity, the authenticity, and the sheer number of dim sum restaurants, aka tea houses, is astounding to say the least. But if you think that you are excluded from the…
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Chef Anthony’s Recipes – Purgatorio alla Calabrese: Plant-Based Picnic Perfection
If it sometimes feels like picnics are all about barbecued meats, then all you plant-based folk out there are going to love this colorful, veggie-heavy and budget-friendly recipe that is perfect for a summer cookout.
The base of this…
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