The Seafood Mile, Cheung Chau, Hong Kong (D)

Turning left off the ferry, you will pass a variety of eateries but we will start at the top of the first stretch of Restaurants where you will find Base To Eat. This restaurant is very popular with the tourists and locals alike. Dining is al fresco and a line of tables and chairs are prepared at around 6pm when the restaurant opens. The food can be cooked either at the table or, from the kitchen, comes a full menu of fresh sashimi, meat and vegetable dishes in Chinese and Western styles. There is a fish trader next door, where you can choose from a large selection of fish that are still swimming. I can recommend the prawns. They are huge. You buy your fish here and take them back to base. All the food is amazing. My favorite is beef flank in red, green or yellow coconut curry, with broccoli in garlic and ginger. The lean tuna is also very good. Prices range from around $60 for the beef flank and broccoli to around $100 for the fresh fish dishes, which are too numerous to mention here. The menu is eight pages long and action packed. All tastes are catered for. They also sell a comprehensive range of beers and wines. Closing time is 2am. They close for 1 or 2 days a week for a well-deserved break. Very busy.

The King's Café down a couple of doors is more of an indoor affair, but there are a couple of tables outside. This is the cheapest restaurant along the harbor and offers no nonsense Chinese food but you can also get egg and chips. The dishes range from your standard beef and chicken curries, to pork chops with noodles and every kind of noodle and rice dish you can think of. The curries are around $35 and the chop and other meat dishes are around $70. The portions are big and fresh and the service comes with a smile. This is a really good budget place to eat and whether you are here for the day or to stay, this will accommodate for the smaller pockets amongst you.

The Rainbow Restaurant is what looks like WYSE Cafe's sister restaurant. Another restaurant with a 50’s American feel to it and leanings to Western cuisine. There are Tortillas, Fajitas, a huge all day full English breakfast menu and lots of deserts from Chocolate Fondue to Honey Toast with Ice Cream with any drinks and smoothies. Set meals on three big menus and value for money. My favorites were the beef and chicken Fajitas. A great place for and very popular with, kids. Mainly small tables indoors, with a few outside too. Prices between $38 and $80.

If you follow Man Shun Lane down for 10 seconds walk, you will find on the opposing corner a very cute Japanese restaurant. Red point is an indoor affair and offers a wide variety of Japanese and some Western fare too in the form of their Campbell’s soup series. Beef Tenderloin with Macaroni or Spaghetti in 6 types of Campbell’s soup. There are Noodle soups and Ink Noodles with Squid and Ink. Vietnamese cold vermicelli rice noodle and Japanese Teisyoku which is my favorite. It comes on a set plate, with rice, chicken or beef, seaweed and tempura prawn accompanied by a bowl of miso soup, which you have to stir to really appreciate the freshness. The service is very friendly and with a smile, which most of this island has, on account of it being a favored holiday and day out for the residents and visitors of Hong Kong and China. Prices for the Teisyoku are very reasonable. At $58 you get a meal, a soup and a drink. All other set meals like noodles in soup, rice & spaghetti, rice stick noodle with laksa soup and Cheung Chau style braised pork rice are $40 which makes this a good value place to eat and drink. Nice food and a nice clean stylish décor. A little gem

Ran by Harry, who has adorned the walls of the entrance to his restaurant with images of the mountains of Nepal where he was born and grew up. Woman pick rice and the views of the Nepalese countryside are evocative. Harry serves a Thai/Indian menu and what a menu it is. Just about every delicious thing about food is for sale here. Thai roasted barbecue chicken is an absolute must at $68 for ½ and $132 whole. You won’t need to eat anything else all day if you get the whole chicken. Whatever they coat the chicken in is seriously tasty. Thai Hot Pot is three types of fish for $138 four soups (sour and spicy prawn, coconut chicken, seafood and veg) at $58 for small to $138 for large, three noodle dishes (Pak Thai, La Na, La Na Tar Lat) Salads are around $50. Vegetable dishes from $55 - $68HKD. Rice dishes from $56 - $68. Thai set meals are $248 for 2, $458 for 4 and $598 for 6. Indian dishes are just as comprehensive with appetisers like veg samosa, veg pakora and onion baji from $38. Soups and salads are from $50. All Tandories like chicken tikka and hariyali chicken are served. There are 10 fish dishes (Jal Ki Rani) and 11 vegetable dishes (Jhadi Ki Sabzi) Indian sets are $458 for 4 and $598 for 6 people. All beers, whiskeys and soft drinks served. This is a dual indoor/outdoor seated Restaurant. The hardest working restaurant in Cheung Chau.

This restaurant grows its own organic dill and makes its own Japanese Blueberry Cheesecake fresh on site every day. The dishes range in price from $48 -$250. There are some fantastic fish dishes like the sea bass fillet $128 and the Norwegian gravlax salmon $168. Various cheese and salami platters, tortellini and creole bouillabaisse, primavera, risottos, soups and pizza’s priced at $48 for small and $88 for the large, this is the suavest of western style restaurants on the island. The décor is cosmopolitan and the tables are all indoors. Strong specialty beers from Germany are reasonably priced and have to be tried along with whatever meal you choose. One of the more expensive places to eat on Cheung Chau, but the food and service make it worth every penny.