Happy Garden Vietnamese Thai

Near the bus stop, Shek O. Daily noon-10pm. One of several laidback places with outdoor tables, luridly coloured drinks, and excellent food - try the water spinach with blechan beef, or huge Thai fish cakes. Mains cost around $60.

Jumbo Floating Restaurant

Shum Wan Pier Drive, Wong Chuk Hang T2553 9111. Daily 10.30am-4.30pm. Bus #75 from Exchange Square, Central to Shum Wan Pier then take an on-demand ferry; restaurant sometimes pays the homewards taxi fare if you spend enough. A Hong Kong institution, this ornate floating restaurant, done out with coloured dragons and heaps of gold and red paint, serves seafood and dim sum from 10.30am onwards, but the food is overpriced at upwards of $300 a head for a meal.

Lord Stanley at the Curry Pot

6th Floor, 90B Stanley Main St, Stanley T2899 0811. Daily noon-3pm & 6-10.30pm. Friendly little restaurant with ocean views from its sixth-floor windows, and delicately judged Indian food from all regions. The set lunch is fair value, but you also can’t go wrong by choosing a la carte - count on $100 a head in either case.

Stanley’s

1st & 2nd Floors, 90B Stanley Main St, Stanley T2831 8873. Daily noon-midnight. Chic French restaurant, which - despite high prices - is winning a lot of friends with its imaginative, regularly changing menu, and bay views.

Tse Kee

80 & 82 Old Main St, Aberdeen. Daily 10.30am-6pm. Well-known noodle restaurant that does excellent fishball soup for less than $30. There are two separate entrances, which can be confusing, but you end up in the same place whichever one you take.