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Pak Sha Road

The official Leica coffee shop in Hong Kong

Pak Sha Road (白沙道) is a quite short path in the Lee Gardens area in Causeway Bay.

The little path helps to connect different properties of Lee Gardens and houses several nice local cafes and grocery shops including perhaps the most famous one for Shanghainese foodstuff, the Old San Yang (老三陽). (Hint: now it is the hairy crab season!)

Hong Kong’s only official Leica coffee shop is also located on Pak Sha Road, named after a Chinese philosopher Chan Pak Sha who was born and remained active during the Ming dynasty. You won’t miss the Leica place when you walk around the area, given its high profile graffiti which already has the whole building covered.

There are some nice restaurants and cafes, including one selling Taiwan beef rice and the other well known for the mixture of international coffee and Chinese tea. You can certainly explore more inside the three shopping malls of Lee Gardens.

If the nearby SOGO is considered more for the ordinary, the Hysan is more for the middle-class, and then Lee Gardens certainly has more luxury brands for the rich to study.

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