Social media platform leads Simone Biles to try popular delicacy in Hong Kong

Simone Biles enjoyed her meal in a Ramen place in Hong Kong, unveiling that the eatery was a TikTok recommendation. She will deliver a speech at the UBS' 28th Asian Investment Conference (AIC) as she enjoys gymnastics downtime.

Biles has been attending events and receiving honors after a successful Paris Olympic campaign, where she won golds in the all-around, vault, and team and silver on the floor. The eleven-time Olympic medalist delivered the commencement speech at Washington University, besides getting an honorary doctorate from the institution.

Biles has now jetted off to Hong Kong to address 600 young athletes and fans across the city's community sports organizations and gymnastics clubs. Before her stint, the seven-time Olympic gold medallist was on a hunt for a ramen place when she stopped at a TikTok-recommended outlet. She shared a video in her Instagram story, captioning:

"on the HUNT for ramen, TikTok find, let's see how it is"

Simone Biles arrived at a TikTok-recommended ramen place; Instagram - @simonebiles

In the following story, she snapped the delicacy, describing it as:

"tonkotsu ramen + medium spice + add an egg + soft noodles"

In another story, Biles shared a time-lapse video of her slurping the ramen while talking to the people who accompanied her. Satisfied with the taste, she captioned:

"s**t was firrreeeee, 8.5/10, would definitely go back"

Simone Biles' ramen stories; Instagram/@simonebiles

Biles and her husband, Jonathan Owens, have moved into their new Chicago home before the latter started his 2025 NFL season with the Bears. The gymnast shared some glimpses of the interiors in her Instagram story.

Simone Biles once shared her motivation behind pursuing gymnastics

Biles at the 2025 Laureus World Sport Awards Madrid - Red Carpet - (Source: Getty)

The 28-year-old was a gymnastics phenomenon since her early years, winning a record five golds in her debut Games in Rio 2016. She trained under Aimee Boorman in her initial days and later came under the tutelage of Cecile and Laurent Landi at her parents' World Champions Center.

As she became the most decorated gymnast in history, Biles shared that her reason for pursuing her sport was to embrace herself, be confident in her body, and feel beautiful.

“My 'Why' was to just really have fun and brace it and see how far I could go and hopefully one day get a college scholarship. And that evolved over the years as I started progressing through the sports pretty quickly. Like, 'oh maybe one day, I can go the Olympics' and then I was training with some girls I had gone to World and been to an Olympic team. So, that's kind of why it changed but other than that, it was to embrace who I am, to be strong, to be beautiful and bold,” she said, via Fox 26 Houston's Will Kunel.

Laureus Sports honored the 30-time World medalist with the Sportswoman of the Year honor in 2025.

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Agnijeeta is a US Olympics journalist at Sportskeeda. She holds a Master’s degree in English and has worked as a school teacher, a blogger, a content writer and a sports writer over the past 5 years. A lover of high-adrenaline track and field events, she was also a sprinter during her school days.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone happens to be her favorite Olympian, and the athlete’s feat of breaking four records within 13 months inspires her, apart from the American's body language on and off the track. Grant Hackett swimming with a partially dysfunctional lung and winning gold in Athens is her all-time favorite Olympic moment.

Agnijeeta believes that deriving of unique angles from podcasts and interviews carried out by Olympics.com, along with hype-building of potential Olympic events on social media can help fill the coverage gap during the off season.

When not at her work desk, Agnijeeta likes to sing and paint. She also plays string instruments like guitar and ukulele and is an avid player of word puzzles.

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Edited by Agnijeeta Majumder