Destination: China: Hong Kong

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Felix

Über designer Philippe Starck’s most striking creation in Hong Kong is still wowing people some thirteen years after it opened. Felix restaurant and bar, near the top of the Peninsula hotel, looks fresh and continues to be one of the places to head for early-evening cocktails, or when the urge for a Pacific Rim–inspired meal strikes. Felix is known as much for what Starck didn’t do as for what he did. Controversially, unthinkably even, he opted to draw blinds over windows that had an absolutely stunning harbor view; instead of a full-on vista, there was merely a hint of the ocean and neon beyond. It worked. Big time. Sadly, the view from the men’s restrooms is not quite what it was: although the twinkling panorama of Kowloon looms large, since the airport moved to Chek Lap Kok, there is no aerial activity to observe.

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