{"id":85316,"date":"2026-09-16T08:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85316"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:27:36","slug":"shes-telling-hong-kongs-culinary-stories-through-an-instagram-staging-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=85316","title":{"rendered":"She\u2019s telling Hong Kong\u2019s culinary stories through an Instagram \u2018staging\u2019 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/15\/8f58f5a9-1327-4abd-9e2c-dbd478f7c375_5e4e4640.jpg?itok=yeeECZJF&amp;v=1789466680\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mel Ng tosses a beef burger patty from one hand to the other. A vlogging camera sits atop a stainless steel container, filming her every move.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 36-year-old is working for the day at The Diplomat, a cocktail bar in Hong Kong\u2019s Central neighbourhood famed for its globally ranked Wagyu burger. Next to her, the bar\u2019s founder, John Nugent, explains the burger components to Ng ahead of service, while passing around slices of American orange cheddar to taste.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The Diplomat was the 31st stop in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Ng\u2019s stagiaire series on Instagram<\/span>; \u201cstagiaire\u201d is the French term for intern, commonly used in professional kitchens to describe a short-term, typically unpaid internship.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since posting her first stagiaire video in October 2025 on her account @melngtf, the culinary creative has staged in both traditional and modern kitchens in Hong Kong and abroad, from Ha Ming Kee, a famous fish ball noodle restaurant in Hong Kong, to Salira, a modern Indonesian restaurant in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3367577\/shes-telling-hong-kongs-culinary-stories-through-instagram-staging-series?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Ng tosses a beef burger patty from one hand to the other. A vlogging camera sits atop a stainless steel container, filming her every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5338,3569,729,5010,318,4182,30071,1726,1755],"class_list":["post-85316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-culinary","tag-hong","tag-instagram","tag-kongs","tag-series","tag-shes","tag-staging","tag-stories","tag-telling","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}