Deep Food

17/04/2026

We made AI fairy tale characters design dinner recipes—and now we are actually cooking it. 📖🥘

“Board of Dinner”: Annual General Eating 🍽️
An Agentic AI-generated dinner exploring how Explainable AI (XAI) fosters empathy.

We are making an immersive dinner to conclude our ‘XAI for Empathy’ creative experiment, in which AI agents role-played as a “board of directors” made up of classic fairy tale characters.

Together, they simulated how different personalities negotiate and collaborate to generate unique recipes and meeting minutes.

After our exhibition at the London Design Festival, the Dutch Design Week and Hong Kong Design Centre. We are finally cooking the actual dishes derived from these AI results!

Join us as our “shareholders” to taste and evaluate the AI’s work. Your feedback on this edible experience will directly validate our action research on whether AI can build human empathy.

Our very first experimental dinner is by private invitation and is currently full. But don’t worry! Spots may open up, and we hope to host multiple dinners in the future.

Want to secure a future seat? Join our waiting list via the link in our bio. 👇
https://forms.gle/ZunNDUni28DxZe7g7

SpeculativeDesign

26/03/2026

As we look through a kaleidoscope of shattered sugar pieces hammered from edible sculptures of old Hong Kong landmarks... 🍬✨

You may have noticed we’ve been a little quiet on here lately. Since resuming our work in London, we’ve been deep in a period of strategic and conceptual exploration. While these reflections don’t always take the form of an immediate project, they are the vital seeds for everything we are building next.

Our latest blog post, “On Edibility and the Edibles,” is a genuine reflection on where Deep Food is now.

To us, edibility is more than just consumption. It is a host for a loop involving embodied experience, reflective meaning, and conceptual articulation—none of them separated; all are edible. We are more excited than ever about Edibility as a tool for expanded possibilities on how we think, relate, and act in the world.

We are currently translating these thoughts into new food-mediated situations that we will continue to create in the real world. The future is edible! 🌏🥣

Read the full reflection at the link in our bio. Stay tuned for new project updates coming very soon.

—Cindy, written in our new London home studio.

Video extracted from our Radiance of Kowloon Memory project, a collaboration with singer-songwriter Chet Lam; credits to our amazing video team, Dixon Chan and Kelly Tam. Images are from upcoming projects collaborating with Joseph Wan.

13/11/2025

Thanks to the Aberdeen community!

Our immersive food experience was made possible by supports from so many amazing people of the Aberdeen community, thank you to everyone who helped and shared us with memories of the harbour!

The ”Hong Kong Aberdeen Boat People Story Sharing and Creative Experiment“ community workshop was designed to invite members of the Aberdeen boat people community, their descendants, and individuals involved in the local fishery industry to actively participate in Deep Foodʼs creative process. The workshop encouraged participants to share their memories and stories related to the sea, fishing, and the unique lifestyle of the boat-dwellers, using various types of dried seafood as sensory triggers and conversation starters. During the creative experiment segment, the Deep Food team demonstrates their initial concepts for food-art performance and the process of making prints with dried seafood. These activities serve as a catalyst for storytelling and deeper engagement.

The stories and experiences collected from participants become a primary source of inspiration for the subsequent interactive installation artwork, as well as for the immersive food experience
performances.

今次創作有賴多位街坊支酒，分享了很多回憶和故事，讓《漁嚐夢遊》能夠連結到觀眾進入水上人的世界🤩

「香港仔水上人故事分享/創作試驗」社區工作坊邀請香港仔水上人、其後代及相關漁業人士參與深食的創作過程。參加者將透過不同海味,分享自己與海、漁業及水上人社區的回憶。工作坊包括創作試驗環節，團隊展示以乾海味進行拓印以及食藝表演的初期食物構思等創作過程，由此展開話題，引領參加者分享相關故事 。這些故事作為互動裝置的靈感來源，亦為後續沉浸式食物體驗表演提供真實故事基礎。

Photo credit:
香港藝術發展局「城中藝遊」
Hong Kong Arts Development Council “Arts in the City”

#食藝 #深食

02/11/2025

Secret Remedies Sought Amid the Waves

‘Even boat-dwellers get seasick. I remember going out to sea as a child—sometimes I’d feel queasy even when the water was calm, and it was worse when the boat was still...
So we turned to a family folk remedy based on “like nourishes like”: weak legs, eat pig’s feet; need brain power, eat pig’s brain. For seasickness, we relied on brown-spot grouper. Groupers like this variety hug the seabed year-round, steady and settled...’

Aberdeen Fishing Dreams
Full story link in bio

秘方浪裏尋

「即使水上人也會暈浪。記得小時候出海，即便風平浪靜，也可能暈浪，尤其在船不動的時候，更易眩暈⋯
於是得用一道家傳偏方，謂以形補形：腳軟吃豬腳，補腦靠豬腦。至於暈船，我們靠「泥斑」。像泥斑這類石斑長年貼著海底，安穩沉定⋯」

漁嚐夢遊
完整故事link in bio

#食藝 #深食

01/11/2025

Aberdeen Harbour’s Shared Tastes

The storyteller says: On a small fishing boat, there was a child who loved to climb to the very top of the mast and look out at the sea from about ten meters up. In his eyes, the view from there was more moving than any luxury home’s sea view. Before him was nothing but deep blue, the sea on all sides.
Standing in that “one-foot VIP” spot, he was in charge of “spotting fish,” searching for and fixing his gaze on great dark masses of fishes larger than the boat. Those shadows were like clouds—expanding, contracting, gathering or scattering. When he found his target, he would skillfully make a hand signal to his sister on deck, and the boat would head toward where the shadows were. That was when his sister would “listen for fish”: if her hearing was sharp enough, she’d press her ear to the deck, and if the fishes were beneath the boat, she could hear their calls—the sound drawing nearer, like listening to the sea breathe. Then down go the lines, up come the lines, haul in, haul again, until the boat brimmed with the catch. Day after day, that’s how they made a living, feeding everyone aboard.

“In the old days when we boat-dwellers fished, the best of the catch always went to market. It was only when we grew up that we learned what the finest fish really tasted like.” As for soldierfish, mantis shrimp, crabs, and the like, they were often shared by nearby trawlers or sold on the cheap. That’s how the boat-dwellers community was: you lend me a hand, I’ll share some good things with you, and everyone enjoys the tastes of the sea together.

Aberdeen Fishing Dreams
Exhibiting at Aberdeen Harbour until the 5th of November

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漁嚐夢遊
城中藝遊項目
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31/10/2025

Sharing the mysterious sea snake in Halloween 🎃

Foggy Days Are for Nourishment🌫️🌫️🌫️❗️❗️

Mr. Storyteller says: if you head out to sea every day, it’s impossible to expect fine weather each time. The ocean won’t always oblige. Sometimes the weather changes faster than you could ever imagine — one minute the sky is cloudless, and the next minute a violent squall blows up. Boat-dwellers have their own vocabulary, especially for weather that’s closely tied to life at sea. That sudden “stone-lake strike” refers to fierce winds with thunder and lightning — fierce in its onset and arriving without warning, powerful enough to capsize a boat. Or you might be sailing along when the fog begins to thicken...

🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️
At first, the world around you turns hazy, a cool dampness settling on your skin. Then the moisture gathers and thickens, as if you’ve stepped into a cloud — you can practically taste the water in each breath. Before long the fog congeals into a blank white wall, and you can’t see a thing ahead.

Usually, when a foggy day sets in and the sea lies calm without a swell, “slow sea snakes” appear. Sea snakes live in the ocean, and when they turn up they love to coil around a boat’s rudder — perhaps because the hull is smooth and there is little else to cling to. A sea snake can grow to several catties in weight; once it wraps itself around you, the boat’s speed drops sharply — hence the name “slow sea snake.” Sometimes you will see one spinning lazily across the fog-shrouded surface, its black-and-yellow banded body easy to spot.‼️

Sea snakes look quite distinctive, rather different from their land-dwelling cousins. Perhaps because they need to swim like fish, their tails are flatter, their heads narrower than their bodies, and their trunks can be thicker than an arm. When sea snakes appear, there’s no need for a hook — catch sight of one, scoop it up with a net, and you’ve got yourself a delicacy!😈😈

‘Aberdeen Fishing Dreams’ by Deep Food
Exhibition at Aberdeen harbour

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Programme for
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#食藝

30/10/2025

Just let the sea and the sunset do their magic 🌅⛵️

Immersive Food Experience
“Aberdeen Fishing Dreams”

A dreamlike ferry ride takes the audience on a journey that revisits memories of the past...

染上夕陽的漁之歌🌅

沉浸式食藝體驗
《漁嚐夢遊》
夢遊街渡上的一席，帶領觀眾進入一場回溯過去的夢境...

#食藝 #食藝體驗


.design .percussion

29/10/2025

Inspired by lost recipes, ingredients no longer found, the good old days of the boat dwellers, the ‘Aberdeen Fishing Dream’ boat ride featured food that invites curious minds to time-travel.

.design .percussion

Link in bio

28/10/2025

Serving boat-dwellers culture inspired recipes…as if they were wild catches 😺😺🐟🐟

Immersive Food Experience
“Aberdeen Fishing Dreams”

A dreamlike ferry ride takes the audience on a journey that revisits memories of the past...

Through creative reinterpretations of bygone ingredients and dining culture, Deep Food presents a realm that is both real and surreal—much like the duo listening to their grandfather and grandaunt recount stories of their life on the water, entering the intricate world of their memories. While the ingredients and scenes from these stories can no longer be recreated, listening to such recollections feels like stepping into a dream that invites us to fill in the details with our imagination.

From tales of free-spirited love blossoming between neighboring boats, to mischievous episodes of life on houseboats, each recollection reveals the unique intimacy and camaraderie of the boat people’s community, inviting us to reflect on our own relationships within today’s onshore neighborhoods. The experience unfolds an evocative fantasia, transporting participants back in time to savor the essence of days gone by.

‘總是想打破做食物設計的經典長枱＋一排排餐碟的配置，剛好今次船上沒有餐枱，反而造就了新的嘗試，過程很好玩’

沉浸式食藝體驗
《漁嚐夢遊》
夢遊街渡上的一席，帶領觀眾進入一場回溯過去的夢境...

以昔日的食材和飲食文化進行創意轉化，進入一場既真實又虛幻的夢境之中，就如同深食二人組聽著爺爺和姨婆細說當年，進入他們在水上生活的種種往事一般。故事中的食材與生活場景早已無法重現,當我們聆聽這些回憶時，彷彿進入一個需要靠自身想像來補足的夢境,而這次活動正是透過深食的敘事手法與表演元素，帶領大家一起「夢遊」回到當年香港仔水上人的日常。

由爺爺與嫲嫲鄰船一同成長的自由戀愛的故事,到住家艇上的頑皮片段，一段段回憶展現水上人獨特而親密的鄰里關係，讓我們反思今日我們在陸地上的社區關係。以失傳的食譜和食材為主軸，探討人與人，人與自然之間的聯繫: 夢迴過去，細味往昔。

#食藝


.design .percussion

26/10/2025

Food x Dance x Percussion Music

Deep Food presents “Aberdeen Fishing Dream”
An immersive food experience turning stories of the Aberdeen boat-dwellers into a multi-sensory performance.

Curated by .design for programme

Photo credits to onebite (first five) and Deep Food (the rest)

《漁嚐夢遊》
沉浸式食藝體驗
一場關於水上人往事的漁舟夢境

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樂 .percussion
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城中藝遊 《南本日常》 節目之一
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24/10/2025