DK Travel : Hong Kong : Editor's choice

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Lai Wong Bau

Chinese bread is shaped into buns, not loaves, and steamed rather than baked – giving it a beautifully soft and fluffy quality (no gritty whole grains here). There are many varieties of sweet bun, butlai wong bau is the reigning favourite, the kind of treat that children will clamour for. These buns are filled with milk, eggs, coconut and sugar. Try them piping hot on a cold winter morning.
Lamma Restaurants’ Seafood Tanks

The restaurants display the subject of their menus live and swimming in huge outdoor fish tanks. You’ll see some edible leviathans here from monster grouper to giant lobsters and an absorbing array of other fidgeting crustacea and teeming sealife.
Limousines

On a per capita basis, Hong Kong probably has more Mercedes and Rolls Royces than anywhere else in the world. Some 50 of the latter are owned by the Peninsula Hotel alone – the largest Rolls Royce fleet in the world.
Lohr Bahk Goh

Mashed turnip, pan-fried with chives, dried shrimp and Chinese salami.
Lou Lim Ieoc Garden

Shady trees, lots of benches; lotus ponds.
Love Potion No. 9

Boost your staying power with a tonic drink from one of the many kerbside Chinese medicine shops.
Ma Lai Goh

Wonderfully light, steamed sponge cake, made with eggs and walnuts.
Macau Museum

Good displays on history and architecture.
Macau Tower

Locals have dubbed it “Dr Ho’s erection” in honour of casino mogul Dr Stanley Ho. At 338 m (1,107 ft), it pips Paris’s Eiffel Tower and is the centrepiece of a planned theme park and restaurant complex. The glass floor revolving restaurant is not for the faint of heart.
Maritime Museum

The place to head if you are interested in Macau’s colourful seagoing past.