Amo Eno is the Most High-Tech Wine Bar in Hong Kong

The Apple Store is not the only high-tech retail in IFC Mall.

Our brother site Winebuzz.hk sat down with Amo Eno founder and creator Andrew Bradbury to get an inside look at the hottest new wine bar in Hong Kong. Which combines the ultimate experience for wine geeks and tech geeks!

If you’ve passed by it while at IFC Mall, you’ve probably seen the amazing array of wine accessories – from skull-decoed decanters to animal head shot glasses – or by the smell of amazing gourmet comfort food or maybe even heard about the “Bling Machine” selling HK$1700 glasses of wine.

But the key for Neonpunch readers is the touchscreen bartops with the latest Microsoft Surface technology!

Read the full story on Winebuzz.hk.

The Top 3 Bars You’ve Never Heard of in Hong Kong, But Wish You Had

And you thought you had the Hong Kong bar scene all figured out.

For such a cosmopolitan city sometimes the Hong Kong bar scene can feel a little it like Groundhog Day.

Without meaning to, bar enthusiasts easily find themselves treading the same circuit of watering holes, seeing the same faces, settling into a routine borne mostly out of a perceived lack of options.  If you start getting that feeling, and trust us if you haven’t yet you will, maybe it is time to shake it up a little and maybe you’ll like what you find.

So here they are, our top three bars you have never been to in Hong Kong.

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The Macallan Whisky Bar’s New Flights: Be a Whisky Connoisseur

Take a boozy round the world flight. Sláinte!

Walking into The Macallan Bar and Lounge in Macau’s Galaxy is like walking into a highland manor house, if they had highland manor houses on the second floor of mega-hotel casinos.

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Learn How to Pronounce Whiskey Names with Actor Brian Cox

This will put your whiskey name debates to rest.

Proud Scot and esteemed actor Brian Cox – he who created Wolverine in X2, was just recently in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and not to mention the original Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter – sat down with Esquire to pronounce 40 whiskey brand names to help you out at the bar, the liquor store, and beyond.

From Glenlivet to Glenmorangie to Glenkinchie to Laphroaig: hear the rest of them here.

Our Favorite Hong Kong Beer Bars on Hong Kong Island

At least 6 more weeks of heat – time for a cold beer, we’ll tell you where to go.

Sure it’s Monday and you might have just come off a huge weekend bender on the beach – but you’ll need to keep yourself paced for next weekend.

So while it’s true beer connoisseurs might find Hong Kong discouraging. Sometimes a Blue Girl or Carlsberg just won’t do. But don’t despair! You can still find a great beer that even the pickiest palette will appreciate.

You just have to know where to look, and this is where we like to go to get a few beers from Central to Quarry Bay.

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