Openbar Gets You Drink Deals and Even Helps You Get Home in Hong Kong

Don’t go out drinking tonight without this app!

Openbar is a new app for iPhone that will bring you the best deals on drinking in Hong Kong.

Your iPhone will now be able to tell you where all the Happy Hours are with its GPS map and give you coupons, event guides, friend locator and probably the most important feature that any expat would kill for: English and Chinese addresses to use with taxi drivers!

Do we need to say more before you download it here?

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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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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New Samsung Signboard Illuminates Victoria Harbor

Something big and bright on top of Harcourt House and Mass Mutual Tower.

When you look over to Hong Kong side from Tsim Sha Tsui be prepared to see this new Samsung signboard.

Samsung launched similar signboards in New York and London, so while we don’t necessarily need another neon sign in our sky, it is interesting that the Korean company chose HK as the third city and not somewhere closer to their headquarters like Seoul or Shanghai.

It must be because Samsung have managed to work their signboard into the Symphony of Light events that happen over the harbor. In order to tie in with that show, the Samsung LED signboard will cast a light into the sky over Victoria Harbor from 8:00-8:15pm every night. Images on the signage will synchronize with the music, while the signage emits colors into the sky together with the lighting, spotlights and lasers from buildings on both sides of the harbor. And no doubt from 8:16pm onwards there will be “messages” about Samsung’s line of products.

OK so it’s not a total hard-sell from Samsung, the signage will show “Welcome” messages in various languages and show the time such as the time at certain times every morning, to convenience people on both sides of the harbor.

And you can get on the signboard too; Samsung will allow Hong Kong citizens and tourists to post messages through the LED signage during festivals. The first session will be hosted from Sept. 23 to 27. You can go to their site here (English and Chinese) to post your message and it’ll be shown on the Samsung LED signage from 7:30-8:00pm and 8:15-8:45pm on Oct. 1, China’s National Day.

What would be really cool is if you could Twitter the tag #SamsungHongKong at a specific time and your message would appear on the signboard.

Hey, if you’re going to burn the electricity to do this you might as well give us something we can use, right? At least the event brought out the lovely Ms. Gaile Lai, someone who can light up the harbor without any electricity:

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