Ocean Park Halloween Fest
Photograph: Courtesy Ocean Park Hong Kong
Photograph: Courtesy Ocean Park Hong Kong

The best things to do in Hong Kong this week (October 20-26)

Our pick of the best events around town for the next seven days

Catharina Cheung
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Not sure how to spend your free time this week? We’ve rounded up some of the best happenings across the city – from art exhibitions and food pop-ups to music nights and kid-friendly activities – so you don’t have to go searching. But if all else fails, you can always turn to one of Hong Kong’s best restaurants, or cross things off our ultimate Hong Kong checklist. Whatever you decide, we’ve got you covered for the next seven days.

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What to do in Hong Kong this week

  • Things to do

Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival is back in 2025! This popular outdoor event, organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board and co-hosted by the Bordeaux Wine Council (CIVB), runs from October 23 to 26 at the Central Harbourfront Event Space, opening daily until midnight for the first time. With over 300 booths, the festival offers a curated selection of premium wines and gourmet delights from 31 countries and regions.

This year’s theme, ‘REMIX. BEST OF ALL WORLDS’, features returning favourites like ‘Grand Wine Pavilion’ and ‘Tasting Room’, where visitors can savour top wines, including selections rated highly by renowned critic James Suckling. Celebrating the 170th anniversary of Bordeaux’s 1855 Classification, the pavilion showcases legendary bottles from the five First Growth estates: Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Haut-Brion, and Mouton.

Food lovers will enjoy the Towngas Gourmet Avenue highlighting 12 Michelin and Black Pearl award-winning restaurants, and the Hotel Food Street presenting signature dishes from 11 top local hotels. Your little ones will love the Hong Kong Disneyland-themed zone, featuring exclusive Disney character-shaped snacks and early access to new Christmas-themed treats.

New this year is an interactive activity, ‘Pairing Exploration’, matching five types of grapes with five flavour profiles, encouraging visitors to mix and match wines and dishes guided by colour-coded labels. Additional highlights include masterclasses and live performances.

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  • Things to do
  • Quirky events
  • Admiralty

A set of four giant, floating inflatable figures will be making a debut at sea. In the lineup is Doraemon, perched on his favourite dorayaki snack; Elmo from the Kaws & Sesame Street collaboration; McDonalds’ purple blob-shaped mascot Grimace; and Labubu, the globally viral Nordic-inspired monster by Hong Kong-born artist Kasing Lung.

Catch these cuties just off of Tamar Park in Admiralty with never-before-seen poses as they’re set afloat along Victoria Harbour on October 25. When else are you going to see such universally recognised and different cartoon characters all sitting together?

On November 1, the floating sculptures will be taken on a water parade between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, sailing along both sides of Victoria Harbour, before departing from our waters on the evening of the same day. For the entire duration of the sculpture display, there will also be a Water Parade Market at the promenade near Tamar Park.

See details about the Water Parade and its market here.

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  • Things to do
  • Quirky events
  • Wong Chuk Hang
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Everyone’s favourite spooky amusement park event returns! Themed ‘Unboxed the Cursed Collection’ this year, Ocean Park presents six haunted attractions that will test your mettle and have you screeching till you’re sore. Draw a blind box figurine before venturing into a realm where abandoned blind box toys seek revenge (do you feel bad for all the Labubus and Crybabys that were thrown away now?); uncover Hong Kong’s seemingly ‘solved’ gory mysteries; and race against time in mad scientist experiments.

Elsewhere in the park, pick a tarot card and join a cultish blood sacrifice; survive an expedition through cannibal territory; and celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead without being captured by vengeful ghosts. Take a breather at performances throughout the celebrations, such as paper effigies and Taoist rituals transformed into riveting shows. There will also be nods to the ever-popular KPop Demon Hunters in performances of demon hunters slaying ghouls, and even a devilish boy group named Namja6. 

As always, Ocean Park will be full of spirits and creatures waiting in the dark to scare the pants off unwitting travellers. If you’re a bit of a daredevil, pick up a Little Brother ‘De De’ badge – I Dare You for more ghostly encounters; if you frighten too easy, it’s probably best to pin the Elder Sister ‘Jia Jia’ badge – Don’t Scare Me in a prominent place to ward off those pesky tricksters!

  • Things to do
  • Food and drink events
  • Sheung Wan

Culinary Class Wars fans, heads up! ‘Cooking Maniac’ chef Yoon Nam-no from the hit Netflix series is doing an exclusive four-hands collaboration with chef Kyle Lee of Honjo. Specialising in Japanese-style French cuisine – highlighted with a dash of chaotic cheekiness – chef Yoon will present a series of dishes such as ankimo hosomaki with silky monkfish liver purée, abalone herb butter, yellow chicken misoyaki, lobster tail hot stone with garlic butter rice, curry butter gindara grilled black cod, and more.

This collaborative menu can be enjoyed as a set experience at $580 per person, or ordered as à la carte dishes. After the launch dinner on October 17, both chefs will be around for a meet-and-greet during brunch and dinner on October 18 and 19. These dishes will then be available to enjoy at Honjo until November 23. Book your spot here.

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  • Things to do
  • Food and drink events
  • Hung Hom

Kerry Hotel in Hung Hom is bringing back their Docktoberfest event with an array of traditional German brews and delights. Every Friday and Saturday from September 26 to October 25, guests can enjoy live band performances while tucking into dishes such as whole German crispy pork knuckle, pork schnitzel, and German sausage platters, as well as enjoy Löwenbräu beer that has been specially imported for this season.

As is tradition, there will also be games to participate in, like the beer drinking contest where the fastest drinker will stumble away with a five-beer drinking pass, and the beer stein holding competition, which is a feat of endurance as participants hold a one-litre beer stein for as long as possible. There will also be German games including Shovel for Points and Cornhole. Take part in Docktoberfest for as little as $78 for a pint of selected beer; two pints and a snack combo for $240; or get the three-hour free-flow package for $350 per person. All guests who purchase a free-flow package or any beer and food combo set can participate in one party game for free.

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  • Exhibitions
  • Kowloon City

If, like us, you’re still not over the devastating tale of freedom and subjugation that is Attack on Titan, then you can dedicate your hearts at this officially licensed exhibition that’s in town! Make your way through eight themed zones containing nearly 200 artworks, reproductions of author Hajime Isayama’s precious manuscripts, and a huge nine-metre-long screen showing classic titan battles that’s sure to thrill fans of both the anime and the original manga.

One of the highlights is definitely the 6.2-metre figure of a Colossal Titan peering menacingly over a three-metre wall, which might give you an idea of what Eren Jaeger meant when he said, “Humanity remembered the terror of being ruled by them.” There will be about 40 merchandise items in the gift shop that are exclusive to the Hong Kong event, so this is not the time to be counting those pennies!

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  • Things to do
  • Food and drink events
  • Lan Kwai Fong

If Oktoberfest is more about the food than the beers for you, then you’ll want to make a reservation at Heimat’s Bavarian à la carte experience. Their kitchen will be churning out a spread of traditional festive fare, including chef Peter’s signature crispy schweinshaxe pork knuckle, roasted Nürnberger wurst with sauerkraut, smoked sausage with black truffle, Käsekrainer cheese sausage with Bavarian cabbage salad, homemade kartoffelsalat potato salad, and more. Save room for desserts, as you won’t want to miss the apfelstrudel apple strudel or the Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte Black Forest cake!

Of course, there will also be plenty of German beers to wet your whistle, from Kaiserdom’s Kellerbier unfiltered lager to Karlsbrau Helles Natur Weizen. The menu ranges from $45 for a selection of fresh-baked pretzel to $328 for the crispy pork knuckle, and is available for lunch and dinner from September 30 to October 26.

  • Central

LMO Freshly Baked’s Tastemaker Series has been extended due to popular demand, and this month, Manav Tuli of Leela is joining the fray! Leela is popping up at the grab-and-go concept in Landmark Atrium until October 31 to present five limited-time menu items that set the stage for vibrant Indian flavours to shine. 

Get ready for a chingri malai soup ($48), which showcases Leela’s spin on the classic Bengali curry, featuring prawns in a creamy sweet-spicy coconut broth. We’re also excited for the beef cheek do pyaza sandwich ($98), stacked with slow-braised beef cheek and a rich caramelised onion gravy inspired by the North Indian do pyaza curry. Another thing that’s really got us drooling is the masala chai egg tart ($28). Who’s not excited to sink their teeth into this inventive Indian version of the beloved classic pastry?

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  • Film
  • Sai Wan Ho

From August 1 to October 31, the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) is staging a centenary tribute to Fung Wong-nui, the Cantonese opera legend, to celebrate her impact on Chinese performing arts. Screenings of 16 classic films starring the seminal actress will be shown as part of ‘Phoenix on the Silver Screen – A Centenary Tribute to Fung Wong Nui’ in the HKFA’s Morning Matinee series, making Fung’s influential work accessible to a wider audience.

HKFA has curated a selection of Fung’s films under four categories – ‘Gems of Cantonese Opera,’ ‘The Unforgettable Villainess,’ ‘Martial Heroine,’ and ‘Comedy and Drama’ – to give audiences a comprehensive overview of the actress’s accomplishments and versatile style. Post-screening talks will take place after select screenings, led by notable figures in the performing arts industry such as Cantonese opera veteran Professor Yuen Siu-fai and Ko Lai, one of Fung’s own disciples.

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  • Food and drink events
  • Central

Head to Oasis at the Central Market on October 9 for the third edition of the Central Market x Stormies Oktoberfest. Get stuck in with roasted pork knuckle, grilled Nuremberg sausages, as well as renowned brews like Löwenbräu and Franziskaner Weissbier. German folk band Die Notenhobler will also be on stage to keep up the Oktoberfest vibes.

This year’s event also sees the first-ever Kids & Family Oktoberfest, filled with family-friendly fun like games booths, face painting, and specially curated mini burgers and gelato. The children’s version of this festival runs on Sundays from 3pm to 7pm.

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  • Things to do

Immerse yourself in the forgotten days of the Kowloon Walled City at this epic movie set exhibition, located on the original site of the infamous Kowloon Walled City. Featuring incredibly detailed recreations of shops and other setups from the award-winning Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, the exhibition will let visitors travel back in time to the Walled City in the 1980s.

From the local cafe to the dental clinic, the attention to detail is truly impressive. There's even a small 'screen room' mimicking the rooftops of old buildings back in the day, where visitors can sit and watch the neighbourhood turn from day to night, and listen to the roaring sound of low-flying airplanes over the Walled City area.

Check out our guide for everything you need to know about the exhibition, from dates and opening hours to highlights not to be missed.

  • Things to do
  • Exhibitions
  • Kowloon City

From the Magnavox Odyssey – the first home-use video gaming console – to the latest Nintendo Switch 2 release, gamers have seen the rise and fall of many trends and technologies from the 70s to the present day, and you can now reminisce on them all at this exhibition on gaming, its art and designs, and collective memories.

Airside is hosting the ‘Restart! Beyond Gaming Exhibition!’, which explores how gaming extends beyond simple personal entertainment and has become an integral part of Hong Kong’s cultural tapestry. Check out the wall of gaming consoles to find vintage consoles such as the Atari 2600 from the 70s, the Nintendo Famicom from the 80s, over 300 Nintendo games from the 80s and 90s, and more; and try your hand at ‘The King of Fighters ‘98’ and ‘Bubble Bubble’ on arcade machines.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘Little Fighter 2’, the exhibiton will feature the remastered game with an Airside-exclusive backdrop of the famous Kowloon Walled City for an added touch of Hong Kong heritage.

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  • Things to do
  • Food and drink events
  • Wan Chai

Following Grand Hyatt Hong Kong’s immersive Le Petit Chef dining experience, the hotel is set to unveil ‘The Magic Table’, a brand-new dining experience that fuses captivating 3D projection mapping technology with exceptional fare. From September 19 onwards, this one-of-a-kind show features Thommy Ten & Amélie van Tass from America’s Got Talent, as they deliver dazzling magic performances and storytelling to leave guests enthralled. During ‘‘The Magic Table’, diners can choose from the Wizard’s Essentials ($1,550 per person) or the Grand Illusion ($1,850 per person) to enjoy a curated menu with sumptuous dishes like beef tartare, foie gras with port wine gel, butternut pumpkin topped with potato foam, a choice between surf or turf for mains, and a delectable chocolate sphere with poached peaches to conclude.

Vegetarian diners will enjoy the Enchanted Garden menu ($1,150 per person), featuring sumptuous options such as beetroot tartare and baked celeriac. Little ones can also join in the fun with the Young Magician’s Feast ($750 per child), ensuring an unforgettable experience for the whole family.

  • Art
  • Central

Tai Kwun Contemporary is presenting a two-part exhibition under the theme ‘Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008’. Centred around an expansive exploration of the transformations and social shifts within 21st-century China brought about by the prolific spread of the internet and digital technologies, the first chapter will take over all three floors of the JC Contemporary art spaces, running for a little over three months.

‘Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud’ will present more than 50 pieces mapping the creative pursuits of over 35 artists and groups whose practices are influenced by social media, the internet, and digital technologies. Divided into themed segments such as artificial intelligence, information bubbles, online communities, and more, the showcase explores how to ‘stay connected’ in today’s world. Li Shuang, Li Yi-fan, Miao Ying, Wong Ping, Lu Yang, Shao Chun, Zhang Yibei, and the Xijing Men collective are among the many artists exhibiting. Collaborative duo Sun Yuan & Peng Yu – whose claim to fame is the Can’t Help Myself kinetic sculpture with a robotic arm – is also participating.

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  • Art
  • Installation
  • West Kowloon
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A new exhibition at M+ showcases 12 immersive installations by pioneering women artists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including three new works by Asian artists. Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now emphasises the multisensory experience of art and highlights women’s contributions to installation art, a field often overshadowed by male artists. Visitors can actively engage with the environments, which include nine historic pieces that have been painstakingly reconstructed, such as Aleksandra Kasuba’s Spectral Passage (1975), which invites individuals to journey through interconnected nylon structures as a metaphor of the life cycle; Judy Chicago’s Feather Room (1966), an all-white space filled with 300 pounds of feathers; and more.

M+ will also host talks with co-curators Andrea Lissoni and Marina Pugliese to discuss the concept behind the exhibition, and a panel discussion with the three Asian artists whose new, commissioned work is part of Dream Rooms. Additionally, M+ Cinema will screen three documentaries about some of the exhibited artists to supplement the show.

  • Art
  • West Kowloon
  • Recommended

Head to the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) to find our city’s first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Mughal art. The Mughal empire was one of the world’s most powerful kingdoms that encompassed much of modern-day Indian, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, ruling from the 16th to the 17th centuries. Though they ruled a mainly Hindu population, the Mughals were Muslim with Mongol origins, and were known for their rich culture and architecture – the Taj Mahal is one such legacy from this empire.

Over 100 artefacts from the golden age of the Mughal dynasty, from paintings and jewellery to weaponry, architectural segments, and even some rare surviving textiles from this period are now on show – Hong Kong is this exhibition’s only Asia venue after its London premiere in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Under the rule of three emperors, the Mughal court greatly fostered artistic development and embraced cross-cultural influences, shown here in jade pieces that have incorporated motifs from the Chinese court. Highlights include a casket with mother-of-pearl inlays, a thumb ring from Emperor Akbar’s reign with western enamelling that shows the Mughal court’s hybrid aesthetic, and a beautiful dagger sheath and hilt lavishly decorated with gold and red gemstones.

‘Treasures of the Mughal Court’ runs until February 23, 2026, and tickets are priced from $150 which also grants access to HKPM’s thematic exhibitions in galleries one to seven.

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