First dates are extremely important – you need to show-off that you know the cool places without being too showy, know that she will have a good time and that the food and service will be good so that in her eyes you look smarter than you think you are.

So we’re taking the guesswork out for you with these 3 “can’t lose” picks:

Al Molo Restorante Italiano

This new Italian eatery in Harbor City has everything you’re looking for in a first date restaurant: a stunning view overlooking Victoria Harbor, a big name celebrity chef, good wine and a dessert selection that promises a sweet finish start to your night. Just tell her you’ve got a reservation outside at Michael White’s new restaurant. That should do the trick.

The Mirror Restaurant

If French is the language of love then French food is certainly the cuisine of romance. Traditional French flavors with a decidedly modern flare will make you seem tasteful but daring and the impeccable French service will leave your date feeling pampered. One of the nicest dates money can buy, and it’s less money than you’d think.

Ying Yang

This private kitchen is the perfect venue for a first date. Nothing is quite as romantic as a few private tables in a cozy dining room with a Hong Kong food celebrity cooking specially for you. The original colonial building offers a rare taste of old Hong Kong and sustainable eating pioneer Margaret Xu serves up excellent traditional Chinese fare at its farm-to-table best.

• Al Molo Ristorante Italiano, Shop G63, G/F, Ocean Terminal, TST, Hong Kong
• The Mirror Restaurant, 6/F, Tiffan Tower, 199 Wanchai Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
• Ying Yang, 18 Ship Street, Wanchai, Hong Kong

Space… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new pizzas, to seek out new toppings and new cheeses, to boldy cut pizza where no man has cut before!

The Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter is eight-and-a-half inches of awesome. The zinc-alloy body is chrome-plated and the saucer-section is a laser-etched stainless-steel blade, all in the shape of the original NCC-1701 Enterprise.

Yes, this officially licensed Star Trek collectable is everything you hoped it would be. Laser etched stainless steel blade and solid metal construction make it perfect for battling Romulans in the neutral zone or precision pizza slicing. You can purchase the pizza cutter at ThinkGeek.com for HK$200/US$24.99.

Japanese toy maker Kotobukiya just announced these new Star Wars licensed chopsticks, appropriately called Chopsabers:

Star Wars lightsabers merge with Japanese culture and “Chop Sabers” emerge! Suitable for eating sushi or defending the galaxy, the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader lightsabers measure 9″ long, with the blades cast in translucent material. The smaller “children’s size” Yoda saber measures approximately 7″ long. As a special bonus each set includes translucent Star Wars logo chopstick rests.

Available soon ( not at the San Diego Comic-Con as previously reported) for US$20/HK$180 a pair – you can get a Jedi blue set or a red Sith set and each come with Yoda’s green pair (for children of course). Check back at the Kotobukiya website for availability. See the other chopstick colors here.

This is the smallest portable microwave in the world and its powered by a USB cable and will change instant food you see around the office forever.

Heinz is behind this, and of course they want to be the one to supply you with the food like these ready-to-heat-and-eat Snap Pots, but you can imagine the endless array of dim sum and fried rice concoctions more palatable to the Asian stomach available to overworked office staff that need a quick pick-me-up at all hours of the day.

Apart from its size, the key breakthrough is the use of a combination of mobile phone radio frequencies to create the heat to cook both on the outside and within in under a minute.

Mr Andrews, the managing director of GAMA Microwave Technology, said it is possible to ‘tune’ the radio-frequencies to provide the best results with any small product.

‘It is possible to heat a pie, a burger, a cup of soup or tea in quick time,’ he said.

While its still in prototype stage, so its up to test and feedback they get in their test markets before its launched overseas, but we can just feel that some China factories are reading this post and having ideas of their own. More about this at the Daily Mail.

Special edition Guinness 250 coming to Hong Kong.

Guinness is celebrating 250 years this September, believe it or not, and on the way to this historic landmark in beer history, they are releasing a special variant beer to mark the occasion. The interesting part here is that Hong Kong is one of only 3 market’s getting this special brew. Australia and the U.S., are the other 2! That pretty much says that Hong Kong is probably the largest consumer of Guinness in Asia.

To commemorate this remarkable anniversary, Hong Kong has become one of the three markets where GUINNESS 250 Anniversary Stout is being made available. The limited edition release will be available in the third quarter of 2009 in Hong Kong for a limited period. The commemorative stout is carbonated, not nitrogenated like the traditional GUINNESS Draught.

A bunch of pub events are going to be taking place throughout the Summer, no doubt at two of Hong Kong’s most infamous Irish pubs: Dublin Jack’s and Delaney’s! The new website is up now promoting this occaision so head on over and get into the Guinness. Will the Black Eyed Peas be coming back to Hong Kong to promote this? We’ll let you know.

I’m sure you’re all familiar with the classic Atari Pac-Man game. Well, Pac-Man is now back– but now it wants to eat your food instead of little dots! The Pac-Man oven mitts will definitely make all your friends jealous for them too!

These yellow Pac-Man Hotheads are made entirely out of silicon. You can now take out and serve food with these retro all-time favorite oven mitts.

The Pac-Man Hotheads comes in its own display box and will be sold for a fair US$15 or HK$76. They aren’t too pricey, so you won’t have to break your wallet trying to be cool in the kitchen. You can get them from Fred and Friends.

We love sandwiches and now with more choice in Hong Kong, we’ve decided to compare two big sandwich chains with multiple Hong Kong locations against each other to see who makes the superior bread-and-meat powerhouse.

In this corner, the American sandwich chain Subway, with 7 locations in Hong Kong. There are 8 different sandwiches to choose from, and they bake their bread fresh in the store and then top it for you with fresh ingredients and way you like included in the price of HK$36 a sandwich, with special extras costing a bit more. They sell potato chips from Lay’s and regular soft drinks like Coke. They also offer cookies.

and in the other corner, U.K.’s Pret-a-Manger weighing in with 10 outlets in Hong Kong. This fresh and delicious sandwich shop has their food already made and available in a refridgerated area in halves. They used to sell a whole sandwhich but I guess people would rather have 2 different halves. They also offer some hot sandwiches like the meatball wrap which is our favorite as well as soups, espresso drinks and cookies too.

I guess it depends on what you are in the mood for and where you come from. We’re used to HOT sandwiches, we can make our own cold ones at home. Subway offers a wide variety of sandwiches that you can customize and have toasted. Pret gives you a take it or leave it option. The prices are about that same but some might want a hot cup of coffee and therefore lean to Pret. Subway’s takeaway presentation leaves something to be desired as well with the long plastic bags that makes you look like some kind of weird hobo for the foot longs.

We want to hear what you think too, so drop a comment below.

Don’t feel dumb just because you are going to order these from a company called Stupidiotic, because their Pizza Clippers (US$20) with the built-in wedge shaped spatula will make you the star of any pizza party.

And in Hong Kong what else would you do with the traditional round pizza cutter? At least these long scissors can help you cut up tons of Chinese food as well from really long noodles to those Spring Onion cakes you see them using short knives to cut at your local dim sum restaurant.

They ship to Hong Kong and you can bet we’ll be featuring more of the products they sell on our site in the future.

Delicious and adrenaline pumping coffee! So many choices in Hong Kong nowadays for places to buy your daily coffee fix, from Starbucks to Cova to Cafe Corridor – but what about those who are just as particular about what they drink out of?

Toxel has a great list of 24 amazingly designed coffee and tea mugs and how you can buy them online. We picked out this very cool “Gun Mug” since it was designed by Hong Kong’s ChilliChilly and you don’t need to order it online as you can pick it up at CitySuper, Design Gallery and Homeless.

Click here to see the full list, and transform the way you consume your black gold.

Now you do not have to wait till Valentine’s Day to initiate or spice up your love life. W Hong Kong brings the “Feel the Wuv” package to titillate your sense of smell, touch and taste.

The “Feel the Wuv” package is all set to bring out the romantic side of you with special activities. Spin Me is the in-room set of activities consisting of Seduction Squash and naughty version of Spin the Bottle. Sweat and Wet are other enticing activities at the fitness center and the swimming pools respectively. Binge on the W Hong Kong chocolates and immerse yourself on W HK signature beds and goose-feather pillows and duvets. It is all about luxury without the stiff, pseudo air of sophistication present in other 5-star hotels.

The two signature restaurants of W Hong Kong, Kitchen and Fire, will make sure that you get world-class cuisines and drinks. The menu has been especially formulated to accentuate the flavor of love. After a long day, de-stress at spa and witness divine messages.

The Bliss Important People is a special couple’s lounge for enjoying a quiet evening together. Enjoy the impressive services and soak in the beauty of the Victoria Harbor that overlooks the Bliss Spa.