Hong Kong is one of the world's greatest culinary capitals. The home of Dim Sum, char siu BBQ, dai pai dong street food and more. It's also the proud title holder of Michelin's cheapest star. We've tried to piece together all of Hong Kong's great food traditions into one Cantonese Cuisine super guide. From superb seafood to the city's much overlooked dessert houses.

Possibly a combination of words that could only be strung together in Hong Kong, the city's Anti Shark Fin Soup Flash Mob is set to take to the streets this Sunday May 15^th to highlight the city's continuing, although thankfully dimming, love affair with shark fin. It's a great cause. For those who aren't sure what Shark Fin Soup is, it's exactly what it says on the tin, soup made from shark fin and is often prized at banquets and feasts thanks to its high price. It's also very, very naughty. The demand for shark fin, mostly in Hong Kong and China, has seen shark numbers plummet and had a knock on effect for the rest of the marine food chain. The methods used to 'de-fin' the sharks are also incredibly cruel and the rest of the meat is usually discarded. You can read more in our Should I Eat Shark Fin Soup article.

So if you want to see an end to this practice or just see three grown men walking around in shark suits on a sweltering afternoon, head over to the Hong Kong Shark Foundations facebook page and sign up for more details.

Image: Copyright Hong Kong Shark  Foundation

More culinary accolades for Hong Kong with four entries into Restaurant Magazine's 100 Best Restaurants List. Seen as somewhat of a benchmark because it's voted on by a college of over 800 'restaurant leaders', presumably chefs, food critics and other people who know their quail eggs from their quahog, Hong Kong's entries are all the usual suspects. Amber is the lone entry to crack the top fifty and is trailed by L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Caprice, and Bo Innovation. Amber and Caprice are absolutely superb restaurants with food that will leave you speechless and Robuchon restaurants are recognized around the world for their excellence, still it's disappointing to see three of the four Hong Kong entries occupied by restaurants which focus on European cuisine.

Unfortunately, the overlooking of the city's local Cantonese cuisine has been a perpetual problem with food guides to Hong Kong; one that tripped up even the mighty Michelin's entry into the city but which they've since rectified with the inclusion of places such as Tim Ho Wan. It usually causes much grumbling. Ultimately, it depends what you're measuring. At Cantonese restaurants the focus is on freshness, ingredients and flavor: basically creating the tastiest dish possible. If you're solely judging food, then the competition in Hong Kong is fierce and there are a number of Cantonese restaurants worthy of inclusion on any 'best' list. But if you're assessing the restaurants themselves, as a whole package, then the likes of Caprice and Amber are probably deserved winners. Aside from excellent food they boast impeccable service and designer settings. Of course there are Cantonese restaurants that can claim the same, Ming Court inside the Langham Place Hotel and Cuisine Cuisine both spring to mind but they may still be a step or two the polished excellence of the city's European leading lights - for now.

In the meantime, Bo Innovation and chef Alvin Leung's contemporary interpretation of Cantonese cooking has received a bagful of well-deserved awards and is fantastic place to enjoy some local flavor.

Photo: Bo Innovation. Copyright: Bo Innovation

Tired of passengers dipping into the liquor trolley a little too often, Hong Kong Airlines is making Wing Chun training compulsory for all their cabin crew. The airline apparently has 3 incidents a week of passengers being disruptive on flights and is hoping to help their cabin crew better handle the troublemakers.

Frankly, if you're being naughty on a machine 30,000 feet in the air, you probably deserve to be on the receiving end of a smack down but somehow I can't see cabin crew delivering a suplex in between duty free runs. While they can no doubt be taught the mechanics of Wing Chun, they're going to need some natural aggression to confront any clown dancing on the seats with violence. Aggression is not something you see in your average flight attendant, thankfully, and if they square up White Crane style, it'll be like poking a dumb bear with a stick. While weapons on planes are obviously a tricky subject, why not issue them with one shot mace spray to at least give them the advantage before they break out their Bruce Lee.

For any would be flight attendants out there, find out where to learn martial arts in Hong Kong and upgrade your job prospects.