Food is often considered as nutrition to sustain our life, however, have you ever considered food as a new media to play with design and experience? This project focused on the modernist dining experience, which utilise a range of sensorial experience from visual to textual to create a designed environment. Design, Taste, Texture to inform the narrative of the dishes and tableware. This tableware collection represented three different stages of Hong Kong development history from 1900 to 2000.

This Niu Niu project looks at the relationship between society, lifestyle and history through Hong Kong food culture and further investigate the eating habits, food serving and food choice to reveal the characteristic of this city. Furthermore, it concentrates on Hong Kong traditional food, Dim Sum, which dumpling acts as the provocation to explore the idea of food, material and experience. Hence, the objective of this project is to utilise the quintessence of Hong Kong cuisine as design narrative, integrate into tableware as a way to authentically design for Hong Kong food culture. 

This Niu Niu project looks at the relationship between society, lifestyle and history through Hong Kong food culture and further investigate the eating habits, food serving and food choice to reveal the characteristic of this city. Furthermore, it concentrates on Hong Kong traditional food, Dim Sum, which dumpling acts as the provocation to explore the idea of food, material and experience. Hence, the objective of this project is to utilise the quintessence of Hong Kong cuisine as design narrative, integrate into tableware as a way to authentically design for Hong Kong food culture. 

This Niu Niu project looks at the relationship between society, lifestyle and history through Hong Kong food culture and further investigate the eating habits, food serving and food choice to reveal the characteristic of this city. Furthermore, it concentrates on Hong Kong traditional food, Dim Sum, which dumpling acts as the provocation to explore the idea of food, material and experience. Hence, the objective of this project is to utilise the quintessence of Hong Kong cuisine as design narrative, integrate into tableware as a way to authentically design for Hong Kong food culture. 

This Niu Niu project looks at the relationship between society, lifestyle and history through Hong Kong food culture and further investigate the eating habits, food serving and food choice to reveal the characteristic of this city. Furthermore, it concentrates on Hong Kong traditional food, Dim Sum, which dumpling acts as the provocation to explore the idea of food, material and experience. Hence, the objective of this project is to utilise the quintessence of Hong Kong cuisine as design narrative, integrate into tableware as a way to authentically design for Hong Kong food culture.