Chuan Hu Xiao Chi

Tai Ming Lane, Tai Po T2657 6838. Daily 11am-10pm. Just off the main square towards the Tai Po Hotel, this kitsch little restaurant with green booths, sunflower-yellow walls and wooden tables serves inexpensive, tasty Sichuan-and Shanghai-inspired dim sum.

Lung Wah

Wo Che St, Sha Tin T2691 1594. Daily 10.30am-10.30pm. This place serves greasy pigeon - a Cantonese speciality - plus bean curd and almond desserts.

The restaurant is inexpensive and traditional, with a garden full of mahjong players at outdoor tables, and gets packed at the weekend.

Tung Kee Seafood

Waterfront, Sai Kung. Their speciality is “bamboo fish”: carp, stuffed with preserved turnip and chargrilled outside on a hand-rotated bamboo pole, at around $150 a head.