Lei Yue Mun

This is a collection of fishing villages in southeastern Kwun Tong, Kowloon, where visitors can choose their own fish and seafood to be cooked at one of the area's many restaurants.

A short bus or taxi ride beyond the Kwun Tong MTR station is the village of Lei Yue Mun. Partly built on harbourside stilts, the old village - a former lair of pirates and smugglers - is a seafood-lover's offbeat destination. Visitors can wander at will along covered plankways, purchase their own live seafood from the many market stalls, and take it into nearby restaurants to be cooked according to their own specifications. Lei Yue Mun is an extraordinary experience. The nearby Eastern Harbour Crossing (opened in 1989) links the eastern parts of Kowloon with Hong Kong Island, but Lei Yue Mun remains a raffishly rural backwater of "old" Hong Kong.