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Sauce International
This very stylish restaurant on a narrow pedestrian path in the centre of Sai Kung town has outside seating. There is a range of pasta dishes and the sticky toffee pudding is divine.
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Shalom Grill
If it's Ashkenazic and Sephardic glatt kosher food you're after, the Shalom Grill can oblige. Don't expect cordon bleu, but if you're in the mood for felafel or gefilte fish (or you answer to a Higher Authority on matters culinary), this is the place to visit. Shabbat dinner and Saturday lunch can be prearranged and paid for in advance. For something lighter, sandwiches are around HK$45 to HK$55 .
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Shan Loon Tse Kee Fish Ball
This place started from a nearby cave ( shan loon ) decades ago and has since grown into a busy restaurant with two jointed shops. The signature fish balls are al dente and they are great eaten with ho fan (flat rice noodles). The jyu zaat (dumplings made with fish meat, minced pork, carrot and celery) are usually sold out by noon.
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Shek O Chinese & Thai Seafood
This hybrid of a place is hardly authentic in either category, but the portions are generous, the staff are convivial and the cold Tsingtao beers just keep on flowing.
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Shu Zhai
Modelled to resemble a school in ancient China, this breezy new restaurant off Stanley's waterfront serves an assortment of Chinese dishes as nice to look at as they are to eat. Braised Mandarin fish with vermicelli in salty sauce (around HK$150 ) is a must-try. There is a door connecting the restaurant to a branch of Dymocks book shops.
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Shui Hu Ju
This restaurant, which could almost be in Off Soho, serves earthy dishes from Sichuan that have only been gently toned down. The décor is a delight - traditional Chinese with tables separated by latticed screens. It's like dining in one of the neighbouring antiques shops.
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Song
This very stylish though somewhat cramped Vietnamese eatery, down an unnamed alleyway between Peel and Aberdeen Sts, serves refined (some might say overly so) Vietnamese food to the denizens of Soho.
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Sorabol Korean Restaurant
This is the Korean's Korean restaurant, with helpful and informative staff. The barbecues are great and the kimchi dishes - notably the summer variety of the piquant and fermented cabbage - particularly well-prepared.
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Spring Deer
This is probably Hong Kong's most famous (though not best) Peking restaurant, and it serves some of the crispiest Peking duck (around HK$280 for the whole bird) in town. The place is extremely popular, so book several days in advance.
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Spring Moon
The Peninsula's flagship Chinese restaurant, Spring Moon is Japanese minimalist with bits of Art Deco thrown in. The Cantonese food is excellently prepared, and the surrounds and ambience are stunning.
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Star Seafood Restaurant
A cement building shaped like a giant boat, this is your quintessential tourist restaurant. The food might not be the best you've had, but the experience would certainly be one of a kind.
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Stoep Restaurant
This Mediterranean-style restaurant with a huge terrace right on Lower Cheung Sha Beach has acceptable meat and fish dishes and a South African braai (barbecue; around HK$80 to around HK$150 ). Be sure to book ahead for the weekend.
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Stonegrill
Don't complain when your food arrives half-cooked - it's supposed to be that way. Steak or fish comes sunny-side up and sizzling on a slab of stone; you turn it over to suit your taste. Whether you consider this a half-baked idea or fall for it, you'll love the excellent New York-style bar. There is also a pasta selection.
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Sun Keung Kee Roasted Goose & Seafood Restaurant
We recommend dropping by for the roast goose and congee when you're in the area, perhaps en route to another New Territories destination. But this restaurant does have a loyal following of people making a trip here just for the bird.
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Sushi Hiro
A good example of Causeway Bay's Japanese-ness, this restaurant is one of the many authentic sushi bars hidden in the upper floors of a commercial building, much like the way it is in Tokyo. Like other sushi bars of this grade, Sushi Hiro offers a seasonal choice of fish that changes on a weekly basis, and the chef will happily pick the best for you.
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Tai Pak
Diners who come here are being squashed on the narrow pedestrian walkway while waiting for a table, and they are being squashed when having to share the small tables with strangers. But they are not gluttons for punishment; they are simply food lovers who enjoy a good daam daam min (around HK$24 ) and drunken chicken ( HK$48 ).
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Tai Ping Koon
This place has been around since 1860 and offers an incredible mix of Western and Chinese flavours - what Hong Kong people called 'soy sauce restaurants' in pre-fusion days. Try the borscht and the smoked pomfret or roast pigeon, all specialities of the house.
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Thai Basil
This basement mall restaurant turns out some surprisingly authentic (and quite lovely) Thai dishes. This may not be a destination but it's not a bad stop along the way. The sticky banana pudding is the ultimate blast for the sweet tooth.
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Thai Lemongrass
This quiet, discreet and very smart place serves up such treats as pomelo salad, spicy green papaya salad and mussels in red curry. It is Thai food with a lot of style and a price to match, but it is worth the bucks.
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Thai Shing
If you want the best Thai food on Hong Kong Island and you couldn't care less about eating off a Formica tabletop and being assaulted by cheesy Thai pop, this is where you should be. The folks here won't give you top-notch service either, but once that delicious tom kha gai , padthai and kaeng hit the table, nothing else matters.
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The Grill
You come here in the day to chill out with a salad and a cocktail and you come here in the evening to heat things up with the all-you-can-eat barbecue (around HK$460 to around HK$490 ). Stationed chefs are doing the cooking for you so that you have time to dive into the seafood mountain.
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Tim's Kitchen
When as many Hong Kong Chinese queue up outside a restaurant at lunch time as they do at Tim's every day, you can be sure that the food is both inexpensive and of good quality. It's a mix of Cantonese staples (fried rice, noodles) with some Hong Kong-style additions (such as fried pasta).
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Toby Inn
This modest eatery is the neighbourhood restaurant of Stanley, with elderly people dropping in for dim sum at the crack of dawn and family diners coming in for cheap and cheery food throughout the day.
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Tokio Joe
This place serves some of the freshest sushi and sashimi in Hong Kong, though there's also a full range of hot dishes (including yakitori ) available. There are set lunches for around HK$130 to around HK$190 . Joe's flashier kid brother, Kyoto Joe (2804 6800; Ground fl, 21 D'Aguilar St), just down the hill, is somewhat more expensive and modern, and a venue for drinking as much as dining. There's a robotayaki (barbecue) bar in back.
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Tomokazu
One of the longest running Japanese haunts in town, this restaurant, considering its location and well-prepared Japanese food, is a bargain. It's also the place to go for a fix of noodles or sushi in the wee hours.
