Home Kong Kitchen

Mental Ideas has been on a roll and making serious dough! We’ve been turning our kitchens into mini-Hiroshimas and making weekly food drives to feed Hong Kong’s homeless since 2020!

Our initiative started in response to news reports that Breadline and other food waste charities were struggling to feed the homeless during the 3rd Wave of the pandemic. The charity, run by the inspirational Daisy Tam, relies on food waste donations from bakeries, cafes and restaurants to deliver bread to vulnerable people living on the streets, in shelters and refuges. The restrictions meant they were struggling to meet demand at a time it had never been higher. So we decided to bake our own and help fill the gap!

As more and more bighearted Homekongers joined our cause, Home Kong Kitchen rose from the ashes of burnt loaves and took on its own momentum. We were soon baking, collecting and delivering homemade breads, bagels and muffins to vulnerable people living on the streets, in unlicensed shelters and refuges most days as an independent community project!

We also collect supermarket-bought loaves and other foods generously donated by our community of supporters from their homes all over Hong Kong. We deliver bread and other gifts of clothes and blankets directly to homeless charity ImpactHK!

Other Hong Kong charities we’ve supported through tough times include Bethune House Migrant Women’s Refuge, Loved Flock, Christian Action, the Mission For Migrant Workers and Refugee Union. In 2021 Home Kong Kitchen was awarded a Happy Homes Award by the Mission For Migrant Workers and in 2022 we received recognition for supporting migrants through the 5th Wave.

We’ve donated our home baked breads to Kenyan migrants (pictured) after learning bread is part of their essential diet. ❤️ We’ve donated to refuges for abused domestic helpers. ❤️ We’ve donated muffins to the homeless and elderly on the streets in collaboration with Amigos HK. ❤️ We’ve donated loaves from our growing community of bread donators to Feeding Hong Kong. ❤️ We’ve delivered bread, clothes, blankets, medical supplies and other practical necessities to ImpactHK every week! ❤️ We’ve made and distributed nearly 300 Christmas Gift Socks filled with tasty treats to shelters and refuges in Hong Kong. ❤️ On Feb 12 we delivered a record-breaking donation to ImpactHK! ❤️ We celebrated Lunar New Year serving cream teas for refugees at Refugee Union. ❤️ We deliver free breakfasts to anybody who needs it anywhere in HK. ❤️ We deliver Afternoon Teas to homeless shelters and refuges on public holidays. ❤️ We collaborated with French pâtissier Gael Majchrzak to deliver luxury mooncakes to the homeless Mid Autumn Festival! ❤️ We’re launching our own pâtisserie where you can order our home baking and every cent we make is donated to homeless charities. ❤️ In 2025 we were grateful to receive the support of RL Industry in the form of an extremely generous donation of top notch baking equipment so we can continue to bake a difference for Hong Kong’s most marginalised. ❤️ The organisation also donated refugees designer specs! 🤩 ❤️

Join our Baker’s Dirty Dozens!

If you live in Hong Kong and fancy a crack at baking bread or would like to donate food, clothing or other gifts for the homeless, migrants and refugees, we’d LOVE for you to join us or connect you to the charities we support! Email hello@homekongkitchen.com!

Bake Zero

All our baking is wrapped in compostable bags. We have also designed and collaborated with local artists to create sustainable bread boxes out of recycled waste with doodled designs and messages of solidarity for our homeless friends! If you’re an artist and would like to help, email sadie@mentalideas.org.

Art & Soul Food

We’re also setting up our own bijou patisserie and bakery, where you can order our homemade breads, bagels, muffins and other goodies online and we deliver it to your homes! Every cent we make is donated directly to homeless charities.

Workshops & Events

We have started running free baking demonstrations and workshops with our home bakers and specialists, such as the wonderful Siamy Tan, where everything we make is delivered to the homeless. We’re also creating a beautifully illustrated cookbook raising funds for the homeless charities we support. Watch this mental space…!

https://homekongkitchen.com

hello@homekongkitchen.com