Tan Xiaomi
LAMMA Island is renowned for its award-winning seafood restaurants, landscape and exoticism. The island, only 30 minutes by boat from Central, gives you a break from the world of intense commerce and traffic.
With no historical buildings or major temples to visit, travelers can simply enjoy the sea, the hills and the laid-back lifestyle.
The walk to the village of Yung Shue Wan provides a wonderful vista of Hong Kong’s distant skyline. Don’t forget the array of international restaurants and authentic Cantonese seafood in both villages, Yung Shue Wan and Sok Kwo Wan, with each having its own bay.
If you have a full day, you can walk from village to village. The only path meanders over hills and along the coastline, including fine bathing beaches. However, the two-hour walk does include some steep climbs.
Yung Shue Wan
Start your journey from the picturesque Yung Shue Wan fishing village.
Until a few decades ago, Yung Shue Wan was a small tree-shaded village, dependent on agriculture and fishing. It has expanded in recent years, mostly to accommodate young people and expatriates attracted by lower rents and a more relaxed lifestyle than the frenetic city life of Hong Kong.
Walking the narrow streets between the tightly packed old buildings, you’ll see shops and restaurants that reflect this mixed heritage: stalls with dried fish, shops selling high-tech appliances and souvenir shops that look as if they’ve been established by latter-day hippies. For the souvenir hunter who’s in search of the exotic, some places sell melted and reshaped Coke bottles and fish ornaments.
The best thing to do is to enjoy tea at one of the village’s dainty restaurants and cafes. Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Indian restaurants dot the harbor side.
There are seafood restaurants in both of the island’s main villages. Most of them have saltwater tanks with live fish for you to choose from. Prices for a full meal are fairly inexpensive compared to Hong Kong Island.
Tin Hau Temple
For a short diversion, you can follow the main street from the pier to Tin Hau Temple. The temple is typical of Hong Kong’s coastal communities as Tin Hau, goddess of the sea, protects fishermen. This temple dates from the late 19th century.
Trace your steps back along the main street. You’ll soon arrive at a right turn where a sign points to Hung Shing Yeh Beach.
Grandma’s Bean Curd
Before heading for Hung Shing Yeh Beach, first try Grandma’s Bean Curd. The dessert tent, run by a 65-year-old grandmother in business for more than 20 years, sells tofu fa, a popular Chinese dessert made of very soft bean curd and yellow sugar syrup. Grandma’s has a devoted following of the creamy textured sweet prepared with homemade soya milk. When asked why the bean curd is so smooth, the grandma says she uses two layers of cloth to filter the bean mush for the extract.
The dessert is HK$6 (US$0.77) a bowl and is served hot or cold.
Hung Shing Yeh Beach
From the beach, you have fine views of the South China Sea and the rest of the island. There are changing rooms, lockers and a lifeguard on duty for swimmers. After Hung Shing Yeh, the path climbs through the rolling hills of central Lamma and extends its way to Sok Kwo Wan.
Lo So Shing Beach
After an hour-long walk, you’ll reach Lo So Shing Beach and an intersection. However, you are not recommended to swim here as the sea is shallow. Turn left and then right at the next intersection. The path passes a tunnel reputedly used by the Japanese during their occupation in the Second World War.
Sok Kwu Wan
Some of Hong Kong’s best Chinese seafood restaurants dominate Sok Kwu Wan, side by side along the waterfront. They are extremely popular with local residents — both Chinese and Western. During the summer months, it’s full-house every night and the atmosphere is typical of Hong Kong’s restaurants — noisy, crowded but always fun.
It’s a delightful place to eat before catching the ferry back to downtown Hong Kong. Many Hong Kongers take the ferry over to Sok Kwu Wan in the evenings just to have dinner, and some seafood restaurants offer customers free return ferry tickets.
Tan Xiaomi
LAMMA Island is renowned for its award-winning seafood restaurants, landscape and exoticism. The island, only 30 minutes by boat from Central, gives you a break from the world of intense commerce and traffic.
With no historical buildings or major temples to visit, travelers can simply enjoy the sea, the hills and the laid-back lifestyle.
The walk to the village of Yung Shue Wan provides a wonderful vista of Hong Kong’s distant skyline. Don’t forget the array of international restaurants and authentic Cantonese seafood in both villages, Yung Shue Wan and Sok Kwo Wan, with each having its own bay.
If you have a full day, you can walk from village to village. The only path meanders over hills and along the coastline, including fine bathing beaches. However, the two-hour walk does include some steep climbs.
Yung Shue Wan
Start your journey from the picturesque Yung Shue Wan fishing village.
Until a few decades ago, Yung Shue Wan was a small tree-shaded village, dependent on agriculture and fishing. It has expanded in recent years, mostly to accommodate young people and expatriates attracted by lower rents and a more relaxed lifestyle than the frenetic city life of Hong Kong.
Walking the narrow streets between the tightly packed old buildings, you’ll see shops and restaurants that reflect this mixed heritage: stalls with dried fish, shops selling high-tech appliances and souvenir shops that look as if they’ve been established by latter-day hippies. For the souvenir hunter who’s in search of the exotic, some places sell melted and reshaped Coke bottles and fish ornaments.
The best thing to do is to enjoy tea at one of the village’s dainty restaurants and cafes. Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Indian restaurants dot the harbor side.
There are seafood restaurants in both of the island’s main villages. Most of them have saltwater tanks with live fish for you to choose from. Prices for a full meal are fairly inexpensive compared to Hong Kong Island.
Tin Hau Temple
For a short diversion, you can follow the main street from the pier to Tin Hau Temple. The temple is typical of Hong Kong’s coastal communities as Tin Hau, goddess of the sea, protects fishermen. This temple dates from the late 19th century.
Trace your steps back along the main street. You’ll soon arrive at a right turn where a sign points to Hung Shing Yeh Beach.
Grandma’s Bean Curd
Before heading for Hung Shing Yeh Beach, first try Grandma’s Bean Curd. The dessert tent, run by a 65-year-old grandmother in business for more than 20 years, sells tofu fa, a popular Chinese dessert made of very soft bean curd and yellow sugar syrup. Grandma’s has a devoted following of the creamy textured sweet prepared with homemade soya milk. When asked why the bean curd is so smooth, the grandma says she uses two layers of cloth to filter the bean mush for the extract.
The dessert is HK$6 (US$0.77) a bowl and is served hot or cold.
Hung Shing Yeh Beach
From the beach, you have fine views of the South China Sea and the rest of the island. There are changing rooms, lockers and a lifeguard on duty for swimmers. After Hung Shing Yeh, the path climbs through the rolling hills of central Lamma and extends its way to Sok Kwo Wan.
Lo So Shing Beach
After an hour-long walk, you’ll reach Lo So Shing Beach and an intersection. However, you are not recommended to swim here as the sea is shallow. Turn left and then right at the next intersection. The path passes a tunnel reputedly used by the Japanese during their occupation in the Second World War.
Sok Kwu Wan
Some of Hong Kong’s best Chinese seafood restaurants dominate Sok Kwu Wan, side by side along the waterfront. They are extremely popular with local residents — both Chinese and Western. During the summer months, it’s full-house every night and the atmosphere is typical of Hong Kong’s restaurants — noisy, crowded but always fun.
It’s a delightful place to eat before catching the ferry back to downtown Hong Kong. Many Hong Kongers take the ferry over to Sok Kwu Wan in the evenings just to have dinner, and some seafood restaurants offer customers free return ferry tickets.
Tan Xiaomi
LAMMA Island is renowned for its award-winning seafood restaurants, landscape and exoticism. The island, only 30 minutes by boat from Central, gives you a break from the world of intense commerce and traffic.
With no historical buildings or major temples to visit, travelers can simply enjoy the sea, the hills and the laid-back lifestyle.
The walk to the village of Yung Shue Wan provides a wonderful vista of Hong Kong’s distant skyline. Don’t forget the array of international restaurants and authentic Cantonese seafood in both villages, Yung Shue Wan and Sok Kwo Wan, with each having its own bay.
If you have a full day, you can walk from village to village. The only path meanders over hills and along the coastline, including fine bathing beaches. However, the two-hour walk does include some steep climbs.
Yung Shue Wan
Start your journey from the picturesque Yung Shue Wan fishing village.
Until a few decades ago, Yung Shue Wan was a small tree-shaded village, dependent on agriculture and fishing. It has expanded in recent years, mostly to accommodate young people and expatriates attracted by lower rents and a more relaxed lifestyle than the frenetic city life of Hong Kong.
Walking the narrow streets between the tightly packed old buildings, you’ll see shops and restaurants that reflect this mixed heritage: stalls with dried fish, shops selling high-tech appliances and souvenir shops that look as if they’ve been established by latter-day hippies. For the souvenir hunter who’s in search of the exotic, some places sell melted and reshaped Coke bottles and fish ornaments.
The best thing to do is to enjoy tea at one of the village’s dainty restaurants and cafes. Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Indian restaurants dot the harbor side.
There are seafood restaurants in both of the island’s main villages. Most of them have saltwater tanks with live fish for you to choose from. Prices for a full meal are fairly inexpensive compared to Hong Kong Island.
Tin Hau Temple
For a short diversion, you can follow the main street from the pier to Tin Hau Temple. The temple is typical of Hong Kong’s coastal communities as Tin Hau, goddess of the sea, protects fishermen. This temple dates from the late 19th century.
Trace your steps back along the main street. You’ll soon arrive at a right turn where a sign points to Hung Shing Yeh Beach.
Grandma’s Bean Curd
Before heading for Hung Shing Yeh Beach, first try Grandma’s Bean Curd. The dessert tent, run by a 65-year-old grandmother in business for more than 20 years, sells tofu fa, a popular Chinese dessert made of very soft bean curd and yellow sugar syrup. Grandma’s has a devoted following of the creamy textured sweet prepared with homemade soya milk. When asked why the bean curd is so smooth, the grandma says she uses two layers of cloth to filter the bean mush for the extract.
The dessert is HK$6 (US$0.77) a bowl and is served hot or cold.
Hung Shing Yeh Beach
From the beach, you have fine views of the South China Sea and the rest of the island. There are changing rooms, lockers and a lifeguard on duty for swimmers. After Hung Shing Yeh, the path climbs through the rolling hills of central Lamma and extends its way to Sok Kwo Wan.
Lo So Shing Beach
After an hour-long walk, you’ll reach Lo So Shing Beach and an intersection. However, you are not recommended to swim here as the sea is shallow. Turn left and then right at the next intersection. The path passes a tunnel reputedly used by the Japanese during their occupation in the Second World War.
Sok Kwu Wan
Some of Hong Kong’s best Chinese seafood restaurants dominate Sok Kwu Wan, side by side along the waterfront. They are extremely popular with local residents — both Chinese and Western. During the summer months, it’s full-house every night and the atmosphere is typical of Hong Kong’s restaurants — noisy, crowded but always fun.
It’s a delightful place to eat before catching the ferry back to downtown Hong Kong. Many Hong Kongers take the ferry over to Sok Kwu Wan in the evenings just to have dinner, and some seafood restaurants offer customers free return ferry tickets.
Tan Xiaomi
LAMMA Island is renowned for its award-winning seafood restaurants, landscape and exoticism. The island, only 30 minutes by boat from Central, gives you a break from the world of intense commerce and traffic.
With no historical buildings or major temples to visit, travelers can simply enjoy the sea, the hills and the laid-back lifestyle.
The walk to the village of Yung Shue Wan provides a wonderful vista of Hong Kong’s distant skyline. Don’t forget the array of international restaurants and authentic Cantonese seafood in both villages, Yung Shue Wan and Sok Kwo Wan, with each having its own bay.
If you have a full day, you can walk from village to village. The only path meanders over hills and along the coastline, including fine bathing beaches. However, the two-hour walk does include some steep climbs.
Yung Shue Wan
Start your journey from the picturesque Yung Shue Wan fishing village.
Until a few decades ago, Yung Shue Wan was a small tree-shaded village, dependent on agriculture and fishing. It has expanded in recent years, mostly to accommodate young people and expatriates attracted by lower rents and a more relaxed lifestyle than the frenetic city life of Hong Kong.
Walking the narrow streets between the tightly packed old buildings, you’ll see shops and restaurants that reflect this mixed heritage: stalls with dried fish, shops selling high-tech appliances and souvenir shops that look as if they’ve been established by latter-day hippies. For the souvenir hunter who’s in search of the exotic, some places sell melted and reshaped Coke bottles and fish ornaments.
The best thing to do is to enjoy tea at one of the village’s dainty restaurants and cafes. Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Indian restaurants dot the harbor side.
There are seafood restaurants in both of the island’s main villages. Most of them have saltwater tanks with live fish for you to choose from. Prices for a full meal are fairly inexpensive compared to Hong Kong Island.
Tin Hau Temple
For a short diversion, you can follow the main street from the pier to Tin Hau Temple. The temple is typical of Hong Kong’s coastal communities as Tin Hau, goddess of the sea, protects fishermen. This temple dates from the late 19th century.
Trace your steps back along the main street. You’ll soon arrive at a right turn where a sign points to Hung Shing Yeh Beach.
Grandma’s Bean Curd
Before heading for Hung Shing Yeh Beach, first try Grandma’s Bean Curd. The dessert tent, run by a 65-year-old grandmother in business for more than 20 years, sells tofu fa, a popular Chinese dessert made of very soft bean curd and yellow sugar syrup. Grandma’s has a devoted following of the creamy textured sweet prepared with homemade soya milk. When asked why the bean curd is so smooth, the grandma says she uses two layers of cloth to filter the bean mush for the extract.
The dessert is HK$6 (US$0.77) a bowl and is served hot or cold.
Hung Shing Yeh Beach
From the beach, you have fine views of the South China Sea and the rest of the island. There are changing rooms, lockers and a lifeguard on duty for swimmers. After Hung Shing Yeh, the path climbs through the rolling hills of central Lamma and extends its way to Sok Kwo Wan.
Lo So Shing Beach
After an hour-long walk, you’ll reach Lo So Shing Beach and an intersection. However, you are not recommended to swim here as the sea is shallow. Turn left and then right at the next intersection. The path passes a tunnel reputedly used by the Japanese during their occupation in the Second World War.
Sok Kwu Wan
Some of Hong Kong’s best Chinese seafood restaurants dominate Sok Kwu Wan, side by side along the waterfront. They are extremely popular with local residents — both Chinese and Western. During the summer months, it’s full-house every night and the atmosphere is typical of Hong Kong’s restaurants — noisy, crowded but always fun.
It’s a delightful place to eat before catching the ferry back to downtown Hong Kong. Many Hong Kongers take the ferry over to Sok Kwu Wan in the evenings just to have dinner, and some seafood restaurants offer customers free return ferry tickets.
