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Good fusion food, friendly staff and lots of antipodean wines at reasonable prices.

Point at what you want from the huge range of sea creatures swimming in waterfront tanks and haggle a bit. They bag it; you take it to the kitchen; they cook it; you enjoy one of the best seafood meals in Hong Kong.

The hotel is long gone, but the pigeon restaurant has been going strong for 50 years. Don’t worry that you’re eating an airborne rat – the meat is lean and delicious. Occasional celebrity sightings.

Classy Cantonese cooking – not an easy thing to find in Sha Tin. Specialities include shark’s fin soup and crispy chicken.

Generally packed, and when you try their pastas washed down with well-priced red wines you’ll know why. Good pizza too.

There are few reasons to go to Yuen Long, but if you find yourself there, try Kar Shing’s traditional New Territories Great Bowl Feast. Four people will struggle to finish this steaming pile of meat, seafood and vegetables.

Far-flung curry emporium in Sheung Shui. Famed locally for spicy concoctions involving crabs, fish, king prawns and other fruits of the sea.

Accessible by road or private boat, this restaurant serves food from its own organic farm. Seats only 20, so book ahead.

Good sushi in Sha Tin.

The restaurant may be in an uninspiring setting in Sha Tin’s sprawling New Town Plaza, but the spicy Thai delicacies on offer are just the thing to revive footweary shoppers.