Hong Kong: Where to Eat: Setting: Peak Lookout

Peak Lookout

In the colonial days, the bigwigs of Hong Kong were carried around the place in sedan chairs, pulled by pigtailed coolies. In between sedan-chair shifts, the coolies would retire to a rest station, which, many generations later, has been turned into a novel restaurant, the Peak Lookout. The restaurant has sepia photographs and other mementos arrayed around the thick stone walls and an outside patio, with splendid views over the Aberdeen Channel, that is used for barbecuing food and, on some nights, hosting a jazz band.