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Doesn’t the “Tropical Far North” sound so breezy and romantic? Here’s why we’re headed for Cairns.

Come for the Michelin-starred chef’s innovative menu; stay for the rare champagne trolley.

France is leading the way with vaccine passes. Here’s what to know.

At 88 years old, Adrian Zecha shows no sign of stepping back from his role as a hotel innovator. We chat with him about the new Azumi.

Ubud has been Bali’s healing capital for more than a thousand years. Through a weeklong curative quest, we discover that a shaman’s secret ingredient is simple: belly laughs.

Craft beer, ballet, brunches both drag and Japanese… We can’t wait for summer in Hong Kong.

Despite the lockdown last year, Sydney’s dining scene has flourished during COVID.

These international restaurants in Manila will transport you, whether you’re ordering delivery meals during lockdown or dining in on your next trip to the Philippine capital.

One of the original next-gen boutique-hotel brands has opened its first outpost in Asia, and Ace Hotel Kyoto is just as hip as you’d expect.

Two iconic designers join forces for a new, skyscraping, garden-draped luxury hotel that has you practically sitting atop Tokyo Tower.

If you’re looking for love, look no further than this stunning archipelago.

These Japanese restaurants in Singapore are bringing the ohhhh! to omakase.

Celebrated chefs Peter Cuong Franklin and Hoang Tung are leading the way in the always-tasty city’s fine-dining evolution. Here’s how the Covid era has given Saigon’s top kitchens more room to play.

You can find us in the club: sipping Ruinart and eating robata in Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong’s slick new additions.

The map features Michelin-starred meals for as low as US$25.

The best part about melting pots is that our taste buds need never get bored. Here are some of our favorite places in Singapore to eat authentic cuisine from elsewhere in Asia.

Located in the country’s verdant north, this region is an underrated gem that’s blissfully free of crowds.

If you’ve been dreaming of a villa stay on a private island, the Waldorf Astoria Maldives is the perfect place to indulge.

Street-food stalls, mom-and-pop shops, plant-based menus and community activists. We can’t eat in fancy restaurants every night—and this new list proves why we don’t want to, either.

These Global Vision Awards honorees are setting a new standard in the industry — caring for their staff, for their communities and for the environment.

Boutiques, cafes and a sense of creative community percolate through the meandering alleyways of Nakazakicho in Osaka.

In the run-up to Lunar New Year, we fete everyone’s favorite Chinese imperial dish. These are the tastiest Peking ducks in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok.

Could it get any more Japanese than driving around to a bunch of delicious noodle joints with a big bowl of fake noodles on your roof?

We asked our writers for their favorite places to travel domestically. Add these in Malaysia to your post-pandemic bucket lists

Soneva Fushi dropped six figures on COVID screener in order to keep its doors wide open with all our masks off.

This quiet emirate challenges the typical U.A.E. stereotypes, with deeply rooted heritage and rugged mountains, desert, and coastline. Make the hour’s drive from Dubai and you just might find your great escape.

Since September, Gili Lankanfushi has been hosting guests. Here’s how they’re doing it safely.

It’s only available in China.

This exhaustively researched list of the best pizza in Singapore features both quick’n’sleazy slices and gourmet pies.

French, Italian, Spanish and Thai. The five hardest reservations to get in Thailand today vary in all ways but their utter deliciousness.

Whet your Appetite for star chef Ivan Brehm’s super nerdy, border-crossing, culture-merging, artsy, moody community hub. Oh, you can eat there, too.

Across Southeast Asia time-capsule cafés and bars provide a glimpse of—and a reassuring anchor to—neighborhood diners in simpler times.

Hong Kong’s best new restaurants serve up the world on a plate.

Grow your own veggies, cuddle ducklings and eat fresh from the earth at a new farm-to-table restaurant by five-star resort Trisara in Phuket.

The modern master of grilling shares his tips on how to barbecue like a boss.

Hong Kong’s top tables keep us hungry for more with their ever-changing takes on beloved Cantonese fare.

A more Earth- and body-friendly version of the heaven-sent combo you love.

This stylish steak mecca brings laid-back Brooklyn vibes to Bangkok’s CBD.

When in doubt, donut it out.

How lockdown deepened our love for local eating in some of Southeast Asia’s foodie hubs.

Each dish on their transportive tasting menu is not only stick-to-your-bones good, but also uses ingredients from their urban garden and upcountry farm.

A strong metric for charting regional capitals is by the sophistication of their food scenes. We loosen our belts and makes a case for the heretofore underrated Indonesian metropolis.

Quarantining has the T+L staff daydreaming of many things (social interaction?) but especially these dishes.

At the new Mövenpick BDSM Wellness Resort, healing starts with nutritious, delicious meals at Khum Hom and Tamarind.

Stepping out of the shadows of French fine dining, a new guard of visionary young chefs is capturing the city’s culinary zeitgeist.

Often squeezed out by the cuisine of its neighbors, Laos offers its own menu worth exploring, we go on a historic tasting binge in Luang Prabang.

Not only does this storied stay hit all the marks, but it is also the only seafront hotel in George Town.

The long waiting lists at these restaurants are worth the wait.

In pastoral New Zealand, natural remedies, modern therapies and indigenous wisdom power a one-of-a-kind wellness experience.

Spain meets Sichuan in Tokyo’s central business district, where chef Hirofumi Saito opened Textura earlier this year.

The first Tokyo outpost of Hokkaido’s Michelin three-starred Sushi Miyakawa has touched down in the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo.

If you’re craving Italian aperitivo with Sunday-session sharing plates, the new eatery from prolific Bangkok restaurant group Foodie Collection is the place to settle in.

The maestro who’d been running the line at Nahm for years, chef Prin Polsuk, has been teasing our palates with pop-ups of his deeply researched, forgotten Thai-cookbook recipes. Now he’s settled into his own space, a tiny chef’s-table, open-kitchen restaurant hidden within like-minded locavore 100 Mahaseth.

Don’t let the awesome wallpaper fool you. On the wide-ranging menu at the city’s new Instagram darling, the tastes more than match up to the aesthetics.

Finally, a place that transitions seamlessly from day to eve. The clubby Siri House invites you in from breakfast right through midnight.

With a group of young, wildly creative chefs leading the way, the Taiwanese capital is emerging as Asia’s buzziest culinary destination.

In Hong Kong, a city that loves to eat, you’re measured by the quality of your menus. Rather than rest on its pedigreed laurels, the new St. Regis debuts with two ambitious restaurants that already boast guest-books full of regulars.

At S$450 a head, newly opened Nordic restaurant Zén easily tops the list of most expensive restaurants in Singapore—and the region.

Chef Manish Mehrotra turns Indian comfort food into haute cuisine. His menu is often fusion-y (fluffy kulcha breads come stuffed with bacon or Camembert) but in a way that’s creative, not gimmicky.

This stylish restaurant in Clarke Quay takes an innovative, playful approach to regional cooking, with dishes like wok-fried paneer tacos and bhatti murgh tikkas served in Mexican style quesadillas.

Kebabs take center stage, with melt-in-your-mouth meats, veggies and paneer served in a bright, modern setting. Eat all you can at their smart Sunday brunch, or come at night to try their India-inspired cocktails, crafted to complement the flavors of the tandoor.

Where do food writer Juliana Loh and her head chef husband, Guillaume Galliot, of the Michelin three-starred Caprice at the Four Seasons, dine out in Hong Kong? From cheap eats to high-end, the foodie couple serves us some of their favorites in the city.

An ambitious new restaurant boasts Bangkok’s first Michelin three-starred chef on the floor—and up in the clouds.

This tiny cocktail kitchen in buzzy Da’an district actually serves up a full culinary experience. In his space of dimly lit booths around a stage-like bar, owner Seven Yi takes guests on a two-hour tasting journey.

Lined with crumbling fin-de-siècle buildings, Rangoon’s Pansodan Road transports visitors back to the former capital’s colonial yesteryears. But now, on-trend restaurants are breathing new life into the heritage edifices that once housed government offices and banks.

When Macau’s shiny new Zaha Hadid–designed Morpheus hotel opened last year to great fanfare, Yi restaurant sidled into the property’s 21st- floor, glass-walled skybridge, quietly but confidently positioning itself as one of the most innovative Chinese fine-diners in the city.

Famous for dishing up award-winning Thai cuisine, the chef at the helm of Michelin-starred Paste Bangkok has ventured to the other side of the Mekong, offering reimagined takes on the traditional royal cuisine of her Lao heritage.

We’re just going to come right out and say it: Bangkok’s dining scene has never been more delicious or compelling than it is right now.

It takes an expert to find some of Tokyo’s finest restaurants, which is why we asked photographer Shinsuke Matsukawa to take us on a visual tour of covert izakayas and tempura speakeasies.

The interior might be rather sleek and modern but you’re coming for the best of Haiphong’s street-food scene at this family-run restaurant up the stairs at 103 Dong Khoi.

In Australia, immigration, largely from Asia, is a hot-button issue. What isn’t in contention: the Asian culinary culture here flourishes.

For this fresh Thai fare with a Danish accent, little is lost in translation.

This über-sustainable nose-to-tail proves just how many tasty ways you can skin a cow.

Two princes fulfill their culinary destiny with a hipper-than-thou, hotter-than-many, hill-country restaurant that gives old Laotian and Northern Thai recipes a decidedly modern update.

Take a hearty trip through Thailand via a tasting menu brimming with delicious dishes we’d like to see a la carte. (The duo of female chefs at the helm is a fab added bonus.)

Delicately engineered plates starring local, seasonal produce are dreamed up by a celebrity chef who traffics less in “twists” than whiffs—call it, the edge of Thai.

Following the trail of history to old village recipes from soldiers and subsistence farmers made these southern boys an instant hit.

With a fresh revamp and a reorientation to tasting menus, one of the city’s secret faves is stepping out of the shadows.

There is not a more quintessential dining experience in the city than pulling up a plastic chair to tray full of food at a hawker center. Here, our abridged guide on what to order from the plethora of tasty plates dished out at these colorful outdoor food centers.

Young chefs in the Philippine capital are whipping the local food scene into a frenzy with their cool restaurants.

Vietnam’s narrow waistline is bursting with indigenous dishes and inviting eateries. Duncan Forgan dines and drives from Hue to Danang to Hoi An.

Mushrooms make up merely the first few hundred reasons a gourmand will gorge on Yunnan. Save some space for yak bacon, fresh-baked bread and a bevy of Chinese cheeses.

When the Sofitel Phokeethra Phnom Penh opened its doors in early 2011, it became the first five-star hotel to open in the capital city since the 1990s.