Green Queen Foodie: BeLive By The Sea by Rawthentic Food – A Gastrawnomic Feast
"Start with what you have." Raw vegan Chef Priscilla Soligo of Rawthentic Food makes you feel like you can whip up the raw gourmet delights she so effortlessly creates with whatever is lying around in your pantry. Chef P, as she is known…
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Eco Insights: A Handy Guide Of The Most Eco-Friendly Home Building Materials Part 2
In last week’s post, we gave you some useful information about three important eco friendly home building materials: bamboo, abaca and rattan. Today we continue our foray into the natural furnishings world with three more all-stars:…
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Green Queen Loves: Crave Healthy Food – HK’s 360° Health and Wellness Solution
It is really tough to change your health paradigm. It's hard to find the time. It's hard to find the space. It's hard to find the discipline. Should you work on fitness or diet? Getting a trainer is very helpful and motivating but what…
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Green Queen Foodie: Mavericks – Sustainability with a Beach View
Chef Austin Fry- well known in the F&B community for current foodie hangouts The Roundhouse Taproom, Salon 10, and formerly of Brickhouse fame- has created what may be the most socially-conscious restaurant in all of Hong Kong,…
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Eco Insights: A Handy Guide Of The Most Eco-Friendly Home Building Materials Part 1
There is really no excuse not to source eco friendly materials when it comes to furniture and other home furnishings. There are so many sustainable options to choose from. Below we give you the 411 on three plants to consider when updating…
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Green Queen Foodie: Kee Club launches a new dim sum menu with organic vegetables
Jan 2017 Update: Kee Club has now closed down.
Chef Roland Schuller has a lot to feel good about these days. The Michelin-star chef has recently become Executive Chef for KEE, where he has the rare treat of preparing two different…
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Green Queen Giving: Child Welfare Scheme (CWS)
How was Child Welfare Scheme (CWS) started?
Douglas Maclagan, a tourist at the time and now the founder of CWS, was 28 when he had a life-changing experience in the mountains of Nepal. He was handed a sick baby girl, just one year…
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Soya- Superfood or Serious Syndrome? Part 2
If you have been following this series and have read Part 1, you now are better informed about soya and its derivative products. Today you will learn that raw soya actually contains substances that are toxic to the human body. Below we…
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Green Queen Foodie: Restaurant NUR- Nourishing Gastronomy, Haute Cuisine with Sustainability
August 2016 Update: Restaurant NUR is now closed.
Background
Restaurant NUR, a new feather in the Prive group's cap, brings innovation and sustainability to the gastronomic world of Hong Kong. Chef Nurdin Topham, a British import by…
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Green Queen Heroes: Punam Chopra of Spicebox Organics
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I have been in the health and fitness industry for most of my life. I started one of the first women's health and fitness centers in New Delhi, India 20 years ago and hosted my own fitness show on…
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Soya- Superfood or Serious Syndrome? Part 1
The Great Debate
First came the war on dairy. Then came the universal acceptance as soya milk as the smart dairy alternative. Everyone hailed the Asian pod as a wonder bean, full of amazing health benefits. How could Western…
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Green Queen Loves: The Greentest Device – Why You Need One In Your Life
As consumers, we are constantly overwhelmed with information about what is healthy, what is not healthy, what we should eat, what we should avoid eating. The nutrition noise that now permeates all types of media can leave one…
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Green Living: Eco Habits Tried & Tested by Caroline Roy
An earlier version of this post was published on Apronto's Blog.
A full year after embarking on my 100 days of self study, here are the habits that worked for me and that I stuck with: truly tested every day behaviors. They…
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The Farce of Free Range – Chicken Matters
When it comes to sheer marketing genius, you can’t beat the term ‘free range’. Just the very words conjure up wonderful images of pastoral landscapes where cheerful, healthy farm animals roam freely on large expanses of apple-green…
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Green Queen Loves: Apronto Organic Cotton Aprons
Apronto's founder Caroline Roy is not your average eco-mom. Not content with simply doing the usual daily green chores like recycling or making sure to switch off the lights, she embarked on a half year long period of 'eco-examination'…
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Eco Insights: The Diaper Dilemna
Aren’t those Pampers commercials cute? Who doesn’t love the image of a cherubic baby toddling around in nothing but diapers with colourful little rainbows all over them? Only a monster wouldn’t get all warm and fuzzy when presented with a…
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Asia’s Top Detox Destinations by spas+beyond
An earlier version of this article previously appeared on spas+beyond.
Ananda in the Himalayas, India
Up on a mountain top overlooking the sacred Ganges and Rishikesh, spending time in Ananda feels like coming…
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Green Queen Loves: SOTE Gourmet Artisanal Popcorn
December 2016 Update: SOTE has now closed down operations permanently.
SOTE's founders Chelsea and Kate have the kind of faces that makes you think of fairytales. Turns out they met working at Hong Kong Disneyland. Their job? Being…
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Green Queen Giving: Hong Kong Cleanup
In this month's Green Queen Giving series, we feature Hong Kong Cleanup by Ecovision and the amazing work that they do with their various Cleanup Challenges across the city.
How was Hong Kong Cleanup started?
The Hong Kong Coastal…
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Make Your Own Green Cleaning Products: DIY Recipes
All this talk of controversial chemical ingredients and toxins in home cleaning & laundry products makes one just want to run out screaming from the supermarket and never come back. It’s gotten to the point where we have no idea what is…
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Green Queen Foodie: Homegrown Foods’ Harvest Feast 2014
The angry rain clouds finally parted and the sun came out in full swing this past Saturday, no doubt to shine bright on this most gorgeous of occasions, Homegrown Foods' Harvest Feast. What began four years ago as mere 50 person…
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