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Car-free and carefree
Yung Shue Wan is a busy little village.
Its muddle of harborfront restaurants,
expat pubs and an assortment of shops
and stalls selling everything from local
crafts to kitchen sinks, line Main Street.
As it’s a car-free island, the awkward
meeting of a waiter carrying a basket of
fish and an elderly lady with a shopping
trolley is considered a traffic jam. Other
than that, the odd tinkling of a bicycle
bell is the nearest thing to road rage.
Many of the village’s eateries have
terraces that overlook Banyan Bay.
Andy’s Seafood Sau Kee, for instance,
prepares some fine dishes, including
steamed garlic prawns that go well
As Yung Shue Wan is a car-free
island, the awkward meeting of a
waiter carrying a basket of fish and
an elderly lady with a shopping
trolley is considered a traffic jam
H O N G K O N G ’ S I S L A N D S
Clockwise from top: Bikes
lined up at the Yung Shue Wan
ferry pier; Andy Yu of Andy’s
Seafood Sau Kee is ready to
serve some customers; fried
pork ribs in honey sauce from
Andy’s Seafood Sau Kee
alongside the ginger fried rice. There’s
also Sampan Restaurant for tasty dim
sum and, on the way to the Family
Trail, Telford Cafe serves cakes, Hong
Kong-style breakfasts and noodles.
Lamma has a fishing tradition that
stretches back thousands of years, and
fishermen’s huts are perched on the
rocks a little north of Yung Shue Wan’s
pier, as they have been for many years,
but nowadays only a few small crafts
are moored here. Sok Kwu Wan bay,
on the other hand, is still busy with
floating fish farms and, amongst them,
the Fisherfolk’s Village that provides an
introduction to the island’s heritage.
