Etiquette consultant Piano Mok talks about different Asian dining customs and etiquette used in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cuisines – from chopsticks to who eats first – and which rules apply to all.

In the 1970s, Michael Hui was the box-office champion, Jackie Chan achieved stardom, and kung fu and sex sold movies. What else happened in Hong Kong cinema during that decade?

Satoshi Kon only completed four feature films, but his work inspired fellow filmmakers including Darren Aronofsky, whose films Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream were influenced by Kon’s Perfect Blue.

From Boys Over Flowers to The Heirs, Weak Hero Class, Extracurricular and Twenty-Five Twenty-One, we rank the best among the many Korean drama series set in high schools.

My Life as McDull, animated movie about a humdrum pig, charmed Hong Kong film-goers with the character’s hard work and persistence. Sequels of varying quality followed.

Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow were among the leading actors who worked with director-producer Wong Jing, whose crude, sex-filled films dominated the Hong Kong box office. What set him apart?

Woody Allen and The Wonder Years fan Joe Ma’s youth romance Feel 100% launched the film career of Cantopop star Sammi Cheng and made fellow singer Ekin Cheng a heartthrob.

Famous for directing the Ip Man films, Hong Kong director Wilson Yip started out making quirky comedies, ghost stories and other dramas. We look at five of those films here.

From Crash Landing on You to Crash Course in Romance, there have been some classic romantic K-dramas over the years. We rank our 15 best ever, and why they deserve a spot in the list.

Hong Kong cinema had to reinvent itself in the late ’90s to combat flagging ticket sales. Gen-X Cops led the way, with new young stars Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung, computerised special effects and a faster pace.

Stanley Kwan’s early films during the 1980s and 1990s centred on women, giving the actresses who played them roles focused on their characters and not just their looks. We take a closer look at four of those films.

In The Mood For Love, Hard Boiled, Marvel’s Shang-Chi – Tony Leung has shown his versatility in a career spanning nearly 100 movies. He’s about to receive a Venice Film Festival lifetime achievement award.

Hong Kong film stars Francis Ng and Anthony Wong are well known now, but in the early 1990s when they began appearing in movies they were mainly character actors and still looking for recognition.

Johnnie To’s ‘Lifeline’ and ‘The Mission’ show the Hong Kong action director’s two contrasting approaches to making movies: going for box-office glory, and just doing what he wants.

The differences between Hong Kong directors Patrick Tam and Ann Hui’s early films Nomad and The Story of Woo Viet exemplify the breadth of style and range of themes of Hong Kong New Wave cinema.

With action stars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock unavailable to film In the Line of Duty 3 and In the Line of Duty 4, Cynthia Khan stepped in. Cast as a new character, she made the role her own.

How many times have you crooned along to a song during a Korean drama viewing marathon? We rank our 15 favourite K-drama soundtracks, from Netflix hit Squid Game to oldie but goody Secret Garden.

Maximum Risk, the 1996 film that marked Hong Kong action director Ringo Lam’s Hollywood debut, lacked many of his characteristic flourishes, but the editing was sharp and there was a memorable sauna scene.

Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung showed her acting abilities in two films directed by Olivier Assayas: Irma Vep, in which she played a version of herself, and Clean, in which she played a recovering heroin addict.

Our pick of the top 10 Korean actresses includes former K-pop star IU, Song Hye-kyo, currently in The Glory on Netflix, and Son Ye-jin, famous for her romantic roles, including global hit Crash Landing on You.

Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s was a time of change: the big studios’ power was waning, John Woo introduced the genre of bloody gangster films, and martial arts films got a modern update.

Ann Hui, Tsui Hark, Patrick Tam: from the mid-1970s on, Hong Kong New Wave directors shook up the city’s film industry, bringing new techniques and a new style of filmmaking. We recall key players and their films.

He made stars of Jet Li and Brigitte Lin, helped John Woo’s directing career take off, and directed classic flims such as Once Upon a Time in China. But there’s a lot you may not know about the legendary Tsui Hark.

From Squid Game’s Lee Byung-hun to Train to Busan’s Gong Yoo to heartthrob Hyun Bin, the 10 greatest male K-drama actors of all time ranked.

Traditional event returns after three-year hiatus, but in a much watered-down iteration.

Toddlers wearing ceremonial aprons are held up by their parents and face each other in the sumo ring, while staff wearing ‘oni’ demon masks attempt to make the babies cry.

The 1990s was the last golden age of Hong Kong cinema, with a slew of groundbreaking films that produced new stars such as martial arts actor Jet Li and art-house darling Wong Kar-wai.

Yokai are supernatural entities from traditional Japanese folklore, popularised in modern culture by movies and series like GeGeGe no Kitaro, My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away.

The Greater Bay Area’s arts scene is putting contemporary Chinese talent on the map with Guangzhou’s Art Canton and OCAT Shenzhen – could these new hubs eclipse Hong Kong’s international clout?