THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK

Curated by Reyna

Two decades of taste, opened up — Reyna's recommendations, and the thinking behind them.

Featured · Notes

The One with the Salted Egg

Snowy skins, matcha, lava custard — every year the mooncake is reinvented. Every year I go back to the one that was right to begin with.

September 2026 · 2 min read

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Notes

The Mahjong Table

Not for the game, exactly — for the table. Four people, a ritual, a few hours where nobody reaches for their phone. What a little FOMO taught me about my own business.

September 2026 · 4 min read

Dining

Avalon: Seafood Wednesdays

A marble counter, oysters shucked as you watch, and a clam bake that appears only if you know to ask two days ahead.

July 2026 · 3 min read

Books

Three I Couldn't Put Down

A memoir that lingers, a Prix Goncourt winner set across twentieth-century Italy, and a novel built entirely from letters.

July 2026 · 4 min read

Dining

Bouillon: A Parisian Bistro up Pound Lane

A small, cosy room in Sheung Wan, 160-odd bottles from family-owned vineyards, and a steak tartare worth crossing the harbour for.

July 2026 · 3 min read

Hosting

How to Make an Evening Last

The party ends at midnight. Whether it lasts is decided in the week that follows — and almost nobody does the work.

July 2026 · 5 min read

Notes

What They Say When You Leave the Room

Public relations is a grand name for a simple thing: the sentence someone says in the taxi afterwards.

July 2026 · 4 min read

Taste

What Gets In

People assume my book is a list of expensive places. It isn't. Three questions decide what earns a page.

July 2026 · 4 min read

Late Night

Mizunara: The Library

Four floors up an anonymous Wan Chai building, behind a door you'd walk straight past, there's a Japanese garden and five hundred whiskies.

July 2026 · 3 min read

Tunes

Take Five: Live This July

Three nights of live music — a duo series, a trio, soulful vocals — in a candlelit room above Queen's Road, 15–17 July.

July 2026 · 3 min read