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  1. 1/5

    Pronounced 'one-fifth', this sophisticated lounge bar and club has a broad bar backed by a two-storey drinks selection from which bar staff concoct some of Hong Kong's best cocktails. It gets packed at the weekend with a dressy professional crowd but it's still a good place to chill.

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  2. Academy For The Performing Arts

    With its striking triangular atrium and an exterior Meccano-like frame that is a work of art in itself, the academy building (1985) is a Wan Chai landmark and an important venue for music, dance and scholarship.

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  3. Agnès B Cinema

    This recently renamed cinema - it was the Lim Por Yen Theatre for years - is the place for classics, revivals, alternative screenings and travelling film festivals.

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  4. AMC Festival Walk

    This complex with 11 screens at Hong Kong's poshest mall is the largest cinema in the territory. The films are a mix of Chinese and Western. Check ahead as the latter are sometimes dubbed, rather than subtitled in Cantonese.

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  5. Aqua Spirit

    This magnificent restaurant-bar on top of one of Kowloon's new skyscrapers is everyone's favourite place for a brew with a view, which is spectacular enough to take your mind off the equally stratospheric bar bill.

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  7. Bahama Mama's

    Bahama Mama's goes for a 'Caribbean island' feel, complete with palm trees and surfboards. It's a friendly spot and stands apart from most of the other late-night watering holes in this part of town. It's also the place to come for a foosball (table soccer) showdown. On Friday and Saturday nights there's a DJ spinning and a young crowd out on the bonsai-sized dance floor.

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  8. Balalaika

    Russian theming - from the dacha-style walls to the music, the food and, of course, the vodka - set a fun tone here. Don a fur hat and coat and step into the tiny ice bar if you really want to take the experience to the extreme.

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  9. Bar

    For mellow 1940s and '50s jazz, don your smoking jacket and sip Cognac at the Peninsula's stylish main watering hole. Your fellow tipplers will be serious business blokes, coutured couples and new-money names trying to sound old(er). The music starts around .

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  10. Bar 109

    Tired of rubbing, er, shoulders with working girls in the Wanch? Well, even if not, the 109 will give you 110 reasons to flock here. It's a serious chill-out zone cobbled from a 1920s-vintage bakery and divided into three sections, including a bar, a covered 'outside' area and a 1st floor balcony.

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  11. Bar 1911

    This is a refined bar with fine details (stained glass, burlwood bar, ceiling fan) and a 1920s Chinese vibe. It's usually a tad less crowded than other nearby competitors, which makes it great haven from the hubbub of the 'Fong.

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  13. Bar George

    This large and raucous place is probably Lan Kwai Fong's biggest meat market; if you can't make it here, you won't make it anywhere. There's a lounge section and a dance floor at the back, with a second bar at the dance floor.

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  14. Barco

    One of our favourite Soho bars, Barco has great staff, is small enough to never feel empty and attracts a cool mix of locals and expats.

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  15. Biergarten

    This clean, modern place rubbing shoulders with the expanding Minden Rd car and club hotspot has a jukebox full of hits (and misses) and Bitburger on tap. It's popular with visiting Germans and others who hanker after such hearty and filling nosh as pork knuckle and sauerkraut.

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  16. Bit Point

    Owned by the same lot as Biergarten, Bit Point is essentially a German-style bar where beer drinking is taken very seriously. Most beers here are draught pilsners that you can get in a glass boot if you've got a thirst big enough to kick. Bit Point also serves some pretty solid Teutonic fare.

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  17. Bliss

    What was a popular post-work suit hang-out called Liquid then a sophisticated lounge/dance bar called NU has metamorphosed into Hong Kong's newest low-key gay club, with two bars and ultra-sophisticated lounge. You can't miss the joint; it's next to eye-popping Rock Candy.

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  19. Bohemian Lounge

    With suitably bohemian décor and regular tarot readings this is a great place for a libation any time but try to make it on Thursday after or Friday or Saturday after when live jazz kicks in.

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  20. Brecht's Circle

    This is a very small and fairly unusual club-like bar. It's an arty kind of place given more to intimate, cerebral conversation than serious raging. Gratefully the décor has been upgraded to this century. Shazam!

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  21. Bridge

    This large and airy bar, with great windows overlooking the frenzy of Lockhart Rd, is open 24 hours, serving cocktails to the denizens and the doomed of Wan Chai. Less frenetic than most of its neighbours.

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  22. Broadway Cinematheque

    This is an unlikely place for an alternative cinema, but it's worth coming up for new art-house releases and rerun screenings. The Kubrick Bookshop Café next door serves good coffee and decent pre-flick food.

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  23. Café Einstein

    This attractive and upbeat bar-bistro, which feels more Lan Kwai Fong than Tong Chong St, has a great bar and lounge with piped jazz and R&B, and serves decent food all day from a short but inspired menu.

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  25. Captain's Bar

    This clubby, suited place remains as comfortable and familiar as it did before the Mandarin Oriental got a massive face-lift. It serves ice-cold draught beer in chilled silver mugs and some of the best martinis in town and is a good place to talk business.

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  26. Carnegie's

    The rock memorabilia festooning the walls makes it all seem a bit Hard Rock Café-ish but it's worth a look all the same. From on Friday and Saturday, the place fills up with revellers, many of whom will end up dancing on the bar. All good clean fun.

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  27. Causeway Lounge

    This slick lounge has live folk music from to on weekdays and a resident quartet plays pop favourites from to Monday to Saturday.

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  28. Cavern

    Hong Kong's first (and only) supper club, the Cavern is effectively a showcase for two tribute bands: Sixties Mania Showband, done up in mop-head haircuts and bell-bottoms, and the Rolling Bones, a great Filipino band. Music starts at Monday to Saturday. There's food and the cover is around HK$100 . Enter from D'Aguilar St.

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  29. Champagne Bar

    Take your fizz in the sumptuous surrounds of the Grand Hyatt's Champagne Bar, kitted out in Art Deco furnishings realistic enough to evoke the Paris of the 1920s. Live blues or jazz rings through the bar most evenings, and the circular main bar is always busy.

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