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Rice Bar
Rice is a popular gay bar in Sheung Wan with a lounge area that sees a bit of dancing as it gets later. It can get very crowded at the weekend.
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Skitz
Hong Kong's most convenient sports bar screens big sporting events on its massive plasmas. There are also pool tables and dart boards and (depending on the night) a DJ on the decks.
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Sky Lounge
Before you can pooh-pooh the departure-lounge feel of this big, long lounge, you've already started marvelling at the view. Don't take flight: sit down in a scoop chair, sip something shaken or stirred and scoff international snacks.
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Smugglers Inn
This scruffy but good-natured place is arguably the most popular pub on the Stanley waterfront, offering perhaps the closest thing to a traditional English pub in Hong Kong. It gets a good mix of people and serves a decent pint of Guinness. Pub food is also available and includes steak sandwiches, burritos and, to accompany your beer, finger food.
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Soda
This well-placed watering hole, decorated in warm yellows and oranges, and with its front open to steep Pottinger St, is also a DJ scene, notably on Wednesday and the weekend, with hip-hop and R & B.
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Solas
If the nasty man wouldn't let you into Dragon-I upstairs, never mind. Who wants to spend all night swapping small talk with characters out of Zoolander anyway? This relaxed, friendly place, where a DJ spins relaxed lounge sounds and the cocktails pack a punch, isn't a bad consolation prize.
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Staunton's Wine Bar & Cafe
Staunton's, at the corner with Shelley St, is swish, cool and on the ball with decent wine, a central escalator-cruising scene and a lovely terrace. If you're hungry, there's light fare downstairs and the fabulously remodelled Scirocco restaurant above.
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The Duke
This popular pub, just up from the waterfront, has darts, free pool and sports on the TV. Cocktails range from HK$35 to HK$60 and there's snack food such as curried fish balls and marinated chicken kidney.
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Tivo
One of the best of a lively little string of bars that have sprung up, almost overnight, along Wyndham St. Tivo is a cut above the peanuts and beer standard of the 'Fong, just around the corner. Wine and snacks Italian style (such as thin crust pizza) is the thing (that'll be where the name comes from then). You can just have a drink without eating though.
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Tony's Bar
This low-key, anonymous and rather scruffy gay-friendly bar just behind Mirador Mansion is a relaxed place to come for a drink, with none of that 'last chance for romance' tension found in some other gay venues.
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Tribeca
No, not NYC but glitzy Hong Kong… It's an über -decked-out club with chatting lounges, a long bar and popular theme nights (eg salsa on Sunday). It's popular with a suave Cantonese crowd, so dress to impress. There's free entry and drinks for women on Thursday night.
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Whiskey Priest
The first (and so far only) Irish - thus the 'e' in 'whiskey' - pub to hit Lan Kwai Fong has Guinness, Kilkenny and Harp on tap, and 60 types of whiskey.
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White Stag
This is a somewhat subdued (suity, not snooty) pub with open frontage and such filling dishes as sausage and beans, cottage pie, fish and chips and chilli.
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Works
Propaganda's sister club, Works is where most gay boyz out on the town start the evening, and sees some heavy FFFR (file-for-future-reference) cruising till it's time to move on to the P. There's a cover (around HK$60 to around HK$100 ) at the weekend.
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Xtreme Bar & Restaurant
This uberstyled brasserielike place has raised the bar by a few hundred metres for upmarket drinking venues in Sai Kung town. Food is available until just before closing.
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Yumla
Tucked behind Soda, Yumla is worth seeking out not for its scruffy looks but rather for the relaxed vibe and DJs that spin a eclectic but cutting-edge mix of excellent dance, hip hop and guitar stuff.
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Yun Fu
Look for the Chinese characters before you reach Tivo and descend to this tiny but delightful circular bar. The fantastical Imperial China theming is actually part of pioneering restaurant of the same name, but even if you're not dining it's well worth stopping for one of the fresh fruit cocktails and to soak up the sounds coming from the DJ's tiny cubby hole.
