The best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend (April 17-19)

Clockenflap and Umami are joining forces to bring the globally acclaimed DJ Haai back to Hong Kong for a one-night takeover at Pier 1929 on April 17. Known for her “tempo-shifting philosophy”, she is set to deliver a set of heavy techno and breakbeats against the panoramic backdrop of the Wan Chai waterfront. The night also features a supporting lineup with local acts such as Mr. Ho, Eugene, Sleepy, and Yee. General access starts at $399, or you can opt for a fast pass at $529, which includes a drink, a free merchandise, and re-entry throughout the night.

Century-old teahouse Lin Heung Lau has teamed up with digital bank ZA Bank on a limited-time collaboration that brings fortune-themed dim sum to Central. From now until April 18, diners can order three special dishes: ZA Golden Eggs (quail egg siu mai with gold foil), ZA Treasure Bowl (ingot-shaped custard bun) and ZA Piggy Bank (piggy-shaped steamed bun), each at a discounted price of $25 with a ZA card. Beyond the food, there are photo spots at the venue and a lucky wheel check-in booth where diners can win limited-edition ‘Foodie Series’ plush blind boxes while stocks last (until March 31).

ZA Bank users dining at the venue can also participate in flash ‘God of Wealth Opens the Vault’ events for a chance to share $2,000 in a group lai see, along with additional perks like rebate coupons and a 12 percent discount on bills over $300 paid with ZA card. 

Hong Kong’s top sporting event, the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, will return on April 17 to 19, 2026. It’s the second time that the Hong Kong Sevens will be held at the Kai Tak Stadium, so we’re looking forward to some world-class action and top-tier rugby. 

30 teams are expected to participate, including 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams across the HSBC SVNS World Championship, and an additional three men’s and three women’s teams who will play in the Melrose Claymores invitational tournament. Argentina, Australia, Canada, Fiji, France, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, and the US will be represented, alongside a number of additional qualifying teams.

Early-bird pre-sales for general admission tickets will be available on November 11 at 11.11am, with a 11 percent discount applied, so be sure to set yourself a reminder! Otherwise, tickets will be available through the Hong Kong Sevens website, or on Klook.

Running from April 3 to 19, the 100% Doraemon Sakura Fest brings a cherry blossom-themed experience across three floors of Hysan Place. The event features a pop-up store with Hong Kong- and Tokyo-exclusive items – including the hugely popular Rice Ball Doraemon and scented Sakura Doraemon plush keychain. Visitors can also customise their own fabric keychain tags at the Doraemon Craft Zone on 1/F, browse capsule toy stations and themed vending machines, and try their luck at game booths on 5/F.

Registration for tickets to the pop-up store between April 3 to 12 will be available via Klook from 11am on April 1 on a first-come, first-served basis. Meanwhile, selected merchandise can be pre-ordered online via DDT Store from March 31 to April 2.

After a century of operating from its location on the corner of Wellington Street and Aberdeen Street, historic teahouse Lin Heung Lau is set to relocate to Tung Ning Building on Des Voeux Road Central. While we’re sad to see the legendary establishment move away, they’re celebrating the end of an era by going out with a bang. The well-loved establishment has teamed up with global music collective RaveDao to host a dim sum rave on April 18. Once the lights dim, Lin Heung Lau’s dining space will be transformed into a high-energy dancefloor for partygoers to let loose. Visit our blog for more information about this exclusive event.

Lucky Plaza is leaning into the Easter break with a tongue-in-cheek theme for the city's office workers. From now until April 19, the mall transforms into a playful escape from the daily grind with a six-part interactive experience that includes a ‘merit egg’ to knock for good luck, a ‘roll away the troublemakers' game, a ‘Book of Answers' offering humorous guidance for workplace woes, and a market dedicated to comfort food. There's also an egg dish showdown where diners can sample and vote for their favourite eggy creations like molten egg siu mai and golden carbonara.

The mall is also running a five-tier spending reward programme with thresholds as low as $50, offering e-vouchers and other perks. The top 30 spenders during the promotion period will receive additional gifts, with the highest spender taking home prizes including a Momax air purifier fan, a Nintendo Switch, and a Philips water filter.

Authentic Italian grocer Mercato Gourmet is hosting the second instalment of its celebrated food fair, Maestri Del Gusto. From April 18 to 19, the fair showcases artisanal products from independent producers and renowned Italian brands. Hongkongers can browse more than 30 premium food and drink brands, including cheese, cured meats, pasta, chocolate and Italian wines. What’s more, guests can interact with brand representatives, enjoy live music performances, join pizza-making workshops, and watch pasta-making demonstrations from celebrated culinary figures. Visit our blog for more information.

Gold – a new “laboratory of ideas” in Wong Chuk Hang – presents its inaugural group exhibition as an exploration of the notion of uncertainty. Drawing inspiration from artist-composer La Monte Young’s ‘Composition 1960 # 10’, the artistic experimentation brings together artists from Hong Kong and abroad across various media and disciplines.

From celebrating deviation and investigating the beauty of unpredictability, ‘Certainly’ navigates the space between systems and structures, questioning the ‘straight line’ of expectations and reframing the concept as a starting point rather than an ending. Artists featured in the exhibition include Tozer Pak Sheung-chuen, Lousy, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Santiago Sierra, Shinro Ohtake, Peter Robinson, and more.

Hong Kong’s ‘Grande Dame’ unveils the lineup for its ‘Art in Resonance’ programme this year, inviting leading artists Angel Hui, Albert Yonathan Setyawan, and Dr William Lim to transform the hotel with their creative practices. Coinciding with Hong Kong Arts Month, the site-specific commissions span embroidery, ceramics, and architectural installation.

Hui brings Chinese gongbi-style delicacy to a vibrant façade artwork of embroidered goldfish. ‘Swimming in Light’ takes over the first-floor windows of the hotel to welcome guests and visitors in a playful, poetic manner. Setyawan’s ‘Metamorphic Modulation’ presents repeated forms painstakingly handcrafted through modelling and casting to investigate its sculptural effect and the beauty of raw colour and texture. Lim’s live-in-environment installation is based on his ‘A Bright Future’ oil piece, translating the artwork into a large-scale, hand-tufted tapestry that challenges dimensional awareness.

For art lovers who simply cannot get enough of Chinese-French printmaking legend Zao Wou-ki, this major retrospective of the artist’s graphic works at M+ is not to be missed. Highlighting key pieces from Zao’s decades-long career, ‘Zao Wou-ki: Master Printmaker’ collects close to 180 items from 1949 to 2000, including paintings, books, and prints, to introduce new perspectives on his career, artistic process, and creative thinking.

‘Encouraging Printmaking’ reveals Zao’s early encounters with the bold medium, ‘Towards Abstraction’ records his experimentation phase marked by expressive techniques, and ‘No Boundaries’ presents a body of mature pieces that blend Eastern and Western artistic traditions. Alongside these central themes, the exhibition format will also serve to inform visitors about the art of printmaking – the Open Print Studio at M+ is offering interactive printmaking workshops for visitors to simply drop in on weekends to take part in lessons.

For the first time, HKU’s University Museum and Art Gallery is pairing Swiss and Chinese paper cuttings together, setting up side by side to highlight what makes each tradition so special. The Swiss works, drawn from the collection of Interlaken collectors Elsbeth and Niklaus Wyss, mostly use black paper to capture slices of Alpine life with fine, eye-catching details. On the Chinese side, red paper is often used to depict different themes and subjects like tigers, peacocks, opera masks, or pagodas – each carrying deep symbolic meanings. Both approaches are all about storytelling, pulling from Swiss village scenes or Chinese folklore to offer the audience a chance to appreciate how two cultures turn the same craft into something uniquely their own.

M+ in West Kowloon Cultural District is honouring the late Ryuichi Sakamoto with a museum-wide programme from now until July. Comprising a site-specific installation, moving image works, a listening experience, and film, ‘Seeing Sound, Hearing Time’ celebrates the enduring legacy of the Japanese composer, producer, and artist.

‘Async–Immersion’ presents a three-dimensional, audio-visual representation of Sakamoto’s personal album, combining sonic experience with optical immersion. Nam June Paik’s ‘All Star Video’ explores Sakamoto’s influences and creative encounters, while ‘Vinyl Sessions with Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto’ allows visitors to engage with his compositions, alongside reflections on his work from three Hong Kong-based sound artists. Additionally, ‘Ryuichi Sakamoto: Music in Film’ will screen two films to allow for an intimate look into Sakamoto’s life, profound artistry, and innovative creative process.

Curated by architectural historian Charles Lai and product designer Kay Chan Wan Ki, this exhibition brings together architects, carpenters, filmmakers, and chefs to examine Hong Kong’s favourite diners from every angle. Highlights include the preserved neon sign of Wan Chai’s Sun Fung Kee, the original door of Sheung Wan’s demolished Hoi On Cafe, and a full-scale beverage station where you can suit up and try assembling orders at cha chaan teng speed.

The exhibition is now on view at Airside’s Gate33 Gallery and runs until July 31. Admission is free until March 31, after which tickets cost $20 (except for kids aged three and under).

M+ and Leeum Museum of Art are teaming up to present a comprehensive exhibition featuring the groundbreaking works of influential South Korean contemporary artist Lee Bul. More than 200 pieces will be shown, spanning the artist’s career from the late 1990s to the present to trace the evolution of Lee’s artistic approach. Split into three sections, ‘Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now’ interrogates ideas of utopian and dystopian existence, the relationship between body and technology, and Lee’s creative process.

M+ Cinema will also screen a number of Lee’s performance works during the exhibition period. ‘Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now’ opens on March 14 and will be commemorated with a talk at the Grand Stair; Lee herself will be present to speak about her artistic vision.

Tucked inside Oi! Glassie, Hong Kong artist Chan Wai‑lap presents Jeremy’s Bathhouse – a dreamy, ceramic bathhouse as an extension of his ongoing ‘Swimming’ series. Inspired by love, connection, different bathing cultures, and the 2016 viral story of Jeremy, the left-spiral snail, the exhibition features a heart-shaped pool installation made with more than 1,200 handcrafted ceramic tiles designed by Chan.

Visitors will also find a set of shower cubicles lined with casts of real soap bars that Chan has collected from bathhouses around the world, and every so often, timed release of mist drifts through, softening the edges and shifting the whole atmosphere from crisp clarity to a dreamy haze.

In a landmark collaboration between the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) of Egypt, 250 treasures and relics from the land of the Pharaohs will be on display in Hong Kong for nine and a half months. Named ‘Ancient Egypt Unveiled’, this exhibition is the largest, most comprehensive, and longest-running display of ancient Egyptian artefacts Hong Kong has ever seen, displaying archaeological finds loaned straight from Egypt, many of which are being shown outside of their home country for the very first time.

Some of our favourite highlights include a set of canopic jars used to store internal organs in the mummification and burial process; statues of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut and Rameses II; painted coffins of wood and stone; a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll; and even an ancient Egyptian toilet seat.

Swing by the gift shop to find a wide range of Egypt-related merch, including an adorable series of blind box plushies created by HKPM which depict pharaohs, canopic jars, mummies, and more.

The golden age of Hong Kong cinema saw the production of blockbuster titles like A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Conman (1998), and Infernal Affairs (2002). Packed with action, suspense, and good ol’ “nonsense” humour, these iconic crime films not only offer gripping stories but also capture the essence of life in 70s and 80s Hong Kong. Now, cinephiles can relive their favourite scenes from these classics at the Old Yau Ma Tei Police Station. ‘Yau Ma Tei Police Station: A Cinematic Journey’ delves into local cop film classics through reconstructed sets, collectibles, original scripts, and much more. 

This nostalgic exhibition is now open at the Old Yau Ma Tei Police Station, 627 Canton Road, Yau Ma Tei. Tickets are priced at $30 per person, with concessionary tickets available at $10 per person. Children aged six or below can enter the exhibition for free. Make sure to book your tickets online at cultural.cityline.com, as there will not be tickets onsite. Find out more at fpf.ccidahk.gov.hk. 

See what life was like in the legendary Kowloon Walled City and step inside this immersive 'real life' movie set exhibition! Featuring meticulously recreated shops and scenes from the award-winning film Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, the exhibition will take you back into the 1980s inside the famous Walled City to explore everything from the local cafe to the neighbourhood dental clinic.

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

Focusing on non-solid media, multi-disciplinary artist Zheng Jing’s first solo show in Hong Kong uses water, sound, air, and light to transform several warehouses into a surreal world that invites viewers to wander through.

In Warehouse 1, visitors will feel as though they are submerged beneath Victoria Harbour, with mirrored installations that let you look up at wave movements through the manipulation of light. There’s also a giant vessel featuring a video projection of a human figure endlessly diving, plus a suspended cube from which light beams are projected outward in multiple directions. Stepping out onto the lawn, visitors will also discover five golden sculptures modelled after Taihu stones, placed in an elemental cycle of ‘breathing’ to allow energy and spirits to flow through continuously.

Ever since Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) launched its pet-friendly bus services, the response has been overwhelmingly positive in Hong Kong’s pet owners. KMB has since gamely added new routes to service more people, with stops now available in neighbourhoods like To Kwa Wan, Sham Tseng, Stanley, and more. Click below to find out more about week day pet bus routes, additional weekend buses, monthly tickets, and August-exclusive adventure buses!

The Hong Kong Space Museum has launched a new 3D dome show catered to little Einsteins and space-loving adults. ‘The Great Solar System Adventure 3D’ replaces their previous programme exploring the Arctic wilderness with an immersive, interstellar voyage.

The show will run until October 14, 2026, with screening times at 2pm and 6.30pm on weekdays, 12.30pm and 5pm on weekends and public holidays at the Space Theatre. Tickets are priced from $15 to $40 per person.

‘The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: The Art Plaza Project at the Hong Kong Palace Museum’ is a multimedia initiative that takes traditional Chinese garden aesthetics as the main inspiration. The project features large installations by five local artists and an architect, each creative bringing a unique contemporary interpretation of traditional zen garden elements to the showcase, where iconic pavilions, flowing water, and aesthetic rock formations are reimagined with materials found in our bustling city, such as bamboo, metal, and fabric. 

This exhibition will be open to the public until November 2, 2026 at the Museum Plaza at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Entry is free of charge during the museum’s opening hours.