Given the extortionate fees required to release the liquid from a Hong Kong beer tap, we're all thankful Hong Kong already has a healthy happy hour scene. From late afternoon until 8pm or 9pm most bars roll out promos and deals offering cheap drinks.

Still, there is always room for something a little more innovative, a bit more exciting, which is exactly what W52 is offering. Encouraging twitter users to meet up in real life and share a conversation using more than 140 characters, bar W52 is offering a 2 for 1 promotion; tagging it as a buy your twitter friend a drink and get one free for yourself.  Whether you're a regular on the local twitter scene, such as abouthongkong, or just in town for the day, it's a great way to make some new friends and get a half price pint.

Running under the hashtag #TDHK, the event is being held on Thursday September 1^st at 7.30pm

It's been a stormy journey for France's premium food guide since landing in Hong Kong a few years back. The Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau first edition upset most of the city's most important stomachs, with food critics and chefs lining up to pan the Eurocentric selections in a city famed for its Cantonese cuisine.

Things have changed. Michelin has swallowed the criticism and in their newest edition they've looked past the five star hotel restaurants and the celebrity chefs and sat down to eat Cantonese and Chinese food at the city's famous family run establishments and bare bones canteens. Hong Kong is now home to Michelin's cheapest Michelin star, where a spread of Dim Sum dishes can cost as little $5 and the guide even has a dedicated symbol highlighting tasty street food options.

You can read our Hong Kong and Macau Michelin Guide review for a full blow by blow on how the guide went from zero to hero or check out our own walkthrough of Hong Kong's best Michelin starred restaurants, where we pick five of the best stars in town.

Photo: The Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau on sale. Some rights reserved. guccio@文房具社

As Hong Kong's Mid-Autumn Festival looms(3rd-13th September), the city's bakers are up to their eyes in egg yolks and dough cooking up the festivals traditional Mooncakes. Often given as gifts by family, friends and businesses, the first batches are already hitting the shops.

If you've never heard of a Mooncake, let me fill you in. These pie like, puck shaped pastries are baked from lard or vegetable oil and stuffed with salted egg yolk and a sweet lotus paste. Weighing just less than a land rover and indestructible to all but a direct nuclear strike, they are an acquired taste. Wrap your lips around a whole one and you're likely to need a new pair of trousers and a date with a dietician. In recent years, the reluctance of Hong Kongers to feed themselves into an early heart attack has seen many bakers forced to throw together some more innovative Mooncakes, often featuring lighter fillings and pastry.

We've pulled together eight of our favorite modern Mooncakes, including crowd pleasers such as chocolate and ice cream to the more controversial smelly Durian stuffing.

Photo: Some traditional Hong Kong mooncakes. Copyright Creative Commons/ Visualdensity

Shades of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong this month as twenty Shaolin Masters from China descend on the city to flaunt their Kung Fu skills. The masters are promising to unroll the kind of jaw dropping martial art stunts seen in films such as  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and familiar to fans of Bruce Lee, Jet Li or Jackie Chan; all Hong Kong natives. Not only will they be taking to the stage but they'll also be holding workshops to show would be Karate Kids how to perform a Seven Star Fist and Handstand Hoist - thus ensuring any futures disputes over the TV remote are settled in your favor.

The setting for the Shaolin Showcase is up at Ngong Ping on Lantau Island. Now, let's be clear, while we're huge fans of the Ngong Ping cable car and its superb vistas over Lantau and the South China Sea, we're far less enthusiastic about the ambitiously named Ngong Ping cultural village; a cynical exercise in tourist exploitation where the only culture you'll find is Starbucks, Subway and various overpriced shops. But credit is due to Ngong Ping for organizing something truly cultural. This is a rare opportunity to see martial arts masters in action, live and up close.

The event runs throughout July until August 31^st and entry is free, although practically speaking you'll need to take the Ngong Ping cable car to reach the village. Times for shows and workshops depend on the day, with the Ngong Ping website providing detailed timetable information. If you do see the show and fancy yourself as a future martial arts master, why not try learning martial arts in Hong Kong.