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Retail Pentahotel, San Po Kong A market economy Contemporary cool At the heart of the hotel is the Penta lounge, a multifunctional space that houses an open 4 marketplace-restaurant-bar-café where guests Kapok,Wan Chai can order Hong Kong street-food classics. Future classics 19 Luk Hop Street 1852 3112 8222 The St Francis Yard outpost focuses on fashion pentahotels.com including homegrown womenswear label Hong Kong Berayah and shoes by Common Projects, while the Sun Street location stocks up on homeware The Pottinger, Central such as trays by Hay from Denmark. Local design champion 5 St FrancisYard and 3 Sun Street Vertigo-inducing skyscrapers ka-pok.com The rooms reference old Hong Kong design and that cling to mountainous many display work by Fan Ho, who shot iconic slopes and busy fishing images of the city during the 1950s and 1960s. Woaw, Central The Envoy roof bar serves great cocktails too. Everything under the sun villages that proudly hold 21 Stanley Street on to their cultural heritage: 1852 2308 3188 Woaw is one of the city’s best concept stores, thepottinger.com stocking everything from tech accessories Hong Kong is more diverse designed by Hong Kong’s Native Union to than you’d imagine. This Food and drink toiletries from Malin + Goetz. City bites 11 Gough Street city can appear to be a 1852 2253 1313 collection of concrete high- woawstore.com rises but you are rarely further than a short taxi Ho Lee Fook, Central Loveramics, Causeway Bay ride from verdant hikes. Chinese cuisine with a twist Tableware with an edge The mix of high and low Taiwanese-Canadian chef Jowett Yu is in Hong Loveramics is an urban loft-style china-tableware Kong to explore his version of modern Chinese shop set up just off Leighton Road in 2009. will charm even the most cuisine with his restaurant Ho Lee Fook. William Lee founded the company with his wife hardened urban travellers. 1-5 Elgin Street Grace Ching and the couple take pride in the 1852 2810 0860 timelessness of the products they design and sell. holeefook.com.hk GF, 97 Leighton Road 1852 2915 8018 loveramics.com Hoi On Café, Sheung Wan Worthwhile journey Kubrick,Yau Ma Tei Need to know Hoi On was opened in the 1950s and its name Between the covers Get to grips with the basics means “safe voyage” in Chinese. Check out the traditional wooden booths and be sure to try Housed inside the beloved arthouse cinema the French toast. Broadway Cinematheque in Yau Ma Tei, Kubrick 17 Connaught Road bookshop doubles as a café, recordshop and 01 Taxi tactics: Affordable and abundant, +852 2540 6340 gallery, where works by artists are for sale. Hong Kong’s taxis may not be the most Shop H2, Cinema Block, charming in the world but they’re an Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square efficient way to get around the city. Mido Café, Yau Ma Tei 1852 2384 8929 02 Quick Cantonese: While you’ll be able to Cinematic backdrop kubrick.com.hk get around Hong Kong with relative ease using only English, knowing a few key Much loved by the city’s directors and actors Vocabulary Cantonese phrases will come in handy for its well-preserved interiors, little has Local lingo (and may win you some respect). changed here since the 1960s.The Mido Café 03 The big smoke: Hong Kong’s temples are has been the backdrop for many Hong Kong hubs for each community, where incense films, photo shoots and TV shows. sticks and coils are lit to honour the dead 63 Temple Street 01 Beeh-tzao: Beer and the gods. 1852 2384 6402 02 Ciu Bao: Very cool 04 Come rain or shine: The weather here 03 Ding ding: Street trams can be as dramatic and changeable as 04 Gei dor chihn ah?: How much is it? the skyline. If you’re caught without an Yan Toh Heen, Tim Sha Tsui 05 Ho Muhng: Very cute umbrella the city’s myriad convenience Modern dim sum with a view 06 Jo San: Good morning stores always sell them. 07 Ng-goy: Thank you 05 Dignified approach: Be sensitive to the Yan Toh Heen provides a ringside seat of 08 Sap Sap Soy: No big deal pride that many people here take in their Victoria Harbour and the cityscape while unique culture and history. Many identify offering the chance to savour some of the best themselves as Hong Kongers first and Cantonese food in town. At lunch, dim sum Chinese second. reigns supreme: if you’re dining alone the Miami seafood dumpling trio – grouper,4 crab leg and — 4tktktktktk B Hotels scallop – is a particularly goodHong Kong choice. 4 Vertigo-inducing skyscrapers that cling Kong Hong to mountainous slopes and busy fishing villages that proudly hold onto their cultural New heights of hospitality 18 Salisbury Road heritage: Hong Kong is more diverse than Hong Kong you’d imagine. Navigate the futuristic covered Need to Hotels Food and Retail Essays skyways connecting office towers and you’ll know H F drink R E pass over temples from which incense smoke Culture Design and Sport and Walks Index 1 C D architecture S fitness W I 852 2313 2323 trails towards the heavens. This city can appear to be an impenetrable collection Opera. Festivals. Art — Noodles. Dumplings. Congee — Boutiques. Concept stores. 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