Male Products for Asian Market

MOH-JO has just gone online, a male grooming site where guys can explore lotions and potions without feeling public scrutiny of their manhood. It targets the Asian market, which is invaluable because there are plenty of good products that don’t get distributed in the region. Even basic deodorant is inferior in HK - you have to get friends in the West to send it over. Otherwise your pits don’t just get smelly, they turn into this weird, sticky mess.

Detox while Sitting Down

The Sevens have taken their toll but fortunately, inhalo, a new detox clinic, has brought a rather novel treatment to Hong Kong, salt-therapy. You essentially chill in a room inhaling air particles enriched with natural rock salt. It might sound like we're from the loony bin but we tested it out and would happily go back for more - particularly living in Hong Kong where your lungs get battered. Or you could just buy tonnes of Maldon sea salt.

Home Entertainment for Hong Kong

If you’ve ever tried designing, buying or installing a home entertainment system in Hong Kong then you’ll know there’s an abject dearth of options. The few companies that do exist either offer appalling service or charge ludicrous sums of money, but hope has arrived in the form of JAM Solutions. We know men love gadgetry - it’s hunting for the 21st century - but sometimes you need to hand over to the professionals.

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Expert Expat Insurers

The Alliance Group specialises in life insurance for expats and wealthy local executives - and they can offer some pretty scintillating rates. Life insurance is a funny old thing. You'd be hard pushed to find something more serious but you still want the best price possible. That's the joy and unconfined power of capitalism. The financial crash aside.

Fortune telling has an extraordinary impact on Hong Kong citizens, but it seems to limit as much as it liberates.

Supercar Giants Open Showroom

The new Ferrari and Maserati flagship showroom opened yesterday in Repulse Bay, climaxing with the Hong Kong launch of the new Ferrari 458 Spider. Italian supercars are the definitive boy’s toy – unless you happen to be Ted Bundy – and although it’s difficult to drive one harder than a Prius in this city, you still stop and stare when one roars past.

HK Osteopath Who's Treated the Best

Nathalie Sinclair is an osteopath working in Hong Kong who’s treated everyone from Olympic skiers to pop stars. She’s got the skills and that’s handy because as we get older our bodies catch up on us. It’s frightening when the most sedentary of sports, golf, leaves us aching the next day so we need a little care. What’s equally fortunate, however, is as we get older we can afford it. Not golf though – membership in Hong Kong is ludicrous.

New Shop Takes You to Another Vortex

A new furniture shop called DeeM has opened at 252 Hollywood Road selling all sorts of vintage collectibles and artwork. It could be a valuable addition to your shopping landscape because there are few things as revealing as someone's home. You make an instant judgement when you see how they've decorated - with the exception of Ikea glasses. There's an amnesty on Ikea glasses because everyone has them.

Live the Life of a King

Global Concierge is a Hong Kong based concierge service that can sort you out with everything from Aussie Open tickets to a trip to the Antarctic. It's very appealing because we all love the thought of having a personal concierge. There's something presidential about picking up the phone but only needing to say a few words to get stuff done. "Wimbledon Men's Final", for instance - and here's your chance.

Make Your Own Online Newspaper

Paper.li is a free tool that lets you create your own newspaper online with topics that interest you. Plenty of us have fantasized about playing the cutthroat publisher (Rupert Murdoch): out maneuvering trade unions, entertaining Prime Ministers, making billions and of course getting grilled by select committees in the House of Commons. Now’s your chance.

Powerful Medical Site Unites Patients & Treatments

Medify is a new medical website that brings together patients, treatments, studies and institutions to help sick people manage their illnesses. It’s a great idea because men generally hate going to the doctor. You’ll live with an injury far longer than you’ll put up with a broken TV remote. Priorities first.

Clever Magnetised System

Urbio is a vertical garden system which uses magnets to hang plants on your walls. It’s particularly apt for Hong Kong where space is limited - and we all know how important plants are for your sense of wellbeing. If only there were a couple more petunias in Japanese offices we’d be looking at a much chirpier work force.

For Fitness Fanatics

Tribal is Hong Kong’s finest athletic shop, using cutting edge technology to help you better the man next you - at least in terms of gear. That’s very important because men love to indulge in new equipment. There are few things that boost your performance like new gadgetry - you’ll rarely play better than when you’re trialing someone else’s driver/racket/bike. It’s just a shame you end up regressing as soon as you’ve bought the equipment.

Epic New Site For Hong Kong's Men

Like any woman in her 40s who’s spent too much time in the sun, we needed a facelift so we’ve re-launched our website. It will keep all you guys up to date with the best things to do, buy and see from Hong Kong and around the world - and it will also keep you entertained.

HK’s First Apple Store Opens Tomorrow

The long wait for Macalytes is over – Hong Kong’s first Apple store opens this Saturday in the IFC. It’s news that will bring more delight than you can imagine - people are absolutely fanatical about Apple. It borders on religious fervor, so twinned with Apple’s low prices in Hong Kong, we’re going to see absolute carnage. It’ll be the shopping equivalent of running the bulls in Pamplona.

Site Sends Awkward Messages You Can’t

This is going to be awkward is an amusing website that sends important, anonymous messages to people you can’t risk offending. Whether you want to tell your best mate his new girlfriend is worse than syphilis or if you want to tell a colleague that burping directly into your mouth is unacceptable, it’s your golden ticket.

Surreal Pop-Up Store Opens in Landmark

Gurus of Happy Valley has opened a pop-up store in the men’s basement in The Landmark. It showcases an eclectic selection of goods ranging from Zai Skis to bright Apple equipment so it's better suited to East London than the branded shine of Central but that’s the joy of it. The prices, of course, will still be very Central but at least you can leave with the faint, superior whiff of being alternative.

Every Man's Grooming Mecca

The Grooming Lounge is an online resource for men that stocks a variety of products and ships nearly anywhere in the world. Although you can purchase most grooming products in Hong Kong, a lot of them (like deodorant) just aren’t up to scratch. When you go back home you tend to stock up on these scarce products as well as culinary delicacies (praying airport security don’t find those chicken kievs) but the Grooming Lounge is a much easier option.

Government Auction of Confiscated Goods

The Hong Kong government holds regular auctions of confiscated goods, with stolen cars and vessels making frequent appearances. The next one is scheduled for August 11, and apart from anything else, bidding for a once illicit vehicle must be an adrenaline pumping experience. Can you imagine driving around in a former triad’s Mercedes? It must be thrilling - except when you line up next to him at the lights.

Insightful Virtual Book Shelf

ShelfLuv is a virtual book shelf that displays books you’re interested in as well as books you’re likely to be interested in, ensuring you don't get book envy on your next holiday. If you once consumed the entire work of Chaucer but only brought a few Grisham paperbacks to Hong Kong, the interactive site is also a novel way of showing your pals you’re better read than they think you are. Pun very much intended.

Revamped Inspire for Men Offering Sensational New Services

Inspire for Men, the fitness and beauty specialist in Lee Gardens II, Causeway Bay, has just been revamped and is offering a raft of new services that will leave you in envious shape whatever your dismal starting position. You might even be able to pull off a v-neck.

Buy & Sell to your Heart’s Content

We’ve all made rash purchases we’d rather take back. Perhaps a minor aberration of on a night out when we’ve ended up with a selection of flashing sunglasses, a cute primate, or something at the more serious end of the scale such as a titanium cupboard – but this is where AsiaClassified steps in. If you’re looking to sell something you don’t need or buy something you think you need, it’s the place to go. They don’t discriminate against taste.

Void the Internet of Celebs you Hate

There are particular celebrities we think the world would be better off without. Lady Gaga. Justin Bieber. That grey haired man who appears next to Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model. Which we don't watch, obviously. We're just too busy thinking about carburetors and extra strong lager. And don't even mention Tom Cruise.

Design Savvy Wood Furniture

There is nothing quite like wood to give your apartment a sense of the natural world. We're not talking saw dust that's been turned into kit-set book shelves here; real wooden furniture, with organic shapes and durability like nothing else.

Chinese Medicine in the Heart of Central

We all seem to have them; those little aches and pains that tend to surface when the mercury drops. They're nothing serious, but they crop up at the least convenient times, leaving us hobbling around like Quasimodo. Old injuries from midnight tennis matches, strains from midget tossing tournaments, pulled muscles from over ambitious diving off birthday junks. Gentlemen, we're not here to judge, but to sooth.

Taking the Hard Work out of Online Shopping

Anyone that's sat across the table from an indecisive date knows that often, too much choice is a seriously bad thing. Everywhere we go we have a myriad choices; set menu versus à la carte, do you want cream with your Grande soya mochaccino, will you fill your home Jacuzzi with brunettes or blondes this weekend?

Turn Your Facebook into a Real Book

For the past few decades, it's been drummed into us that we should get away from 'real' books, move away from paper, shun anything that isn't made up of 1s and 0s, and create a complete online persona. We should be reading books on Kindles and emailing photos and videos rather than having real conversations with people. And if we really do have to talk, it's via Skype or MSN chat, both of which we can fortunately access while on the go.