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Hong Kong after dark, mapped by the people who never went home.

Neighbourhood guides, venue profiles and long-form nightlife reporting: the editorial side of Mandos, updated as the city keeps its own hours.

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The world's No. 1 DJ gets named on 6 October, in the room that just became the world's No. 1 club

DJ Mag announces its Top 100 DJs 2026 live at [UNVRS] in Ibiza on Tuesday 6 October. The same poll's club list has already landed, and Hong Kong's two entries both climbed: Boomerang to 32, Space Club to 69. Results go in here on the night.

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Top 100 coverage

1 Oct 2026

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Halloween in Lan Kwai Fong 2026: two calendars, three Saturdays, and the one most people will get wrong

1 Oct 2026

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Top 100 coverage

What the global polls say each year, and what they mean for Hong Kong. We report the results and link to the source rather than republishing anyone's ranked list as our own.

Series·1 Oct 2026

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Halloween in Lan Kwai Fong 2026: two calendars, three Saturdays, and the one most people will get wrong

The Tourism Board's first Hong Kong Halloween Month puts cosplay street parties across five districts on 17, 24 and 31 October. Lan Kwai Fong's own programme starts earlier and runs longer. Plan around the Saturdays alone and you miss half of it.

Guide·1 Oct 2026

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Venue

dragon-i

Inside dragon-i's members' room there's a door marked 115 — the BPM the owner prefers, not a table number. That single figure says more about the 2026 rebuild than a capacity count could: one owner, one Central address, twenty-four years, and a designer he spent fourteen years choosing.

Venue·17 Aug 2026

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Upper Hong Kong

The soft opening ran four nights, 24–27 June 2026, and it was the Lan Kwai Fong Group's own account that put a name to it, not Upper's. Behind the room sits a Bangkok operator that has never named a founder in public — its first address outside Thailand, eight floors up a tower that already ran two clubs.

Venue·16 Aug 2026

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The Old Man

Three bartenders with no financial backer built a room out of wood, brass and pineapple lamps on a SoHo side street in 2017. Two years later it was named the best bar in Asia. Nine years on, under new hands, it is still pouring.

Venue·16 Aug 2026

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Culture & Consumption

Hong Kong's Drinking Fell 22% — the Global Gen Z Story Doesn't Explain Why

Per-capita drinking here is down 22 percent since 2017. IWSR's own tracking says Gen Z alcohol use is climbing, not falling — and the generation actually buying zero-proof drinks is millennials. What moved instead: day parties, run clubs and a cold-plunge membership sold out before it opened.

Culture & Consumption·16 Aug 2026

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