Have Your Say – Nicole L.

Author/ Being Neighbourly
4 April 2026

Nicole L. is a book lover working as a lawyer by day, and an avid reader at night. She loves exploring independent bookstores and exhibitions, and also learning more about her neighbourhood community in Tuen Mun. In her spare time, she also enjoys sharing random thoughts on recent reads and exhibitions on her bookstagram. In the future, she’d like to create more zines as a passion project.

How long have you lived where you live?

I’ve lived in Tuen Mun all my life, so that would be 28 years now.

Can you see yourself anywhere else?

Not really. I really enjoy the neighborhood and where I live. It’s around the Gold Coast area, and there are lots of cafes and restaurants around. I know it’s not the most convenient spot, but I really appreciate the tranquility and the views there.

What’s so great about your home/neighbourhood?

Something great about living in Tuen Mun is that it’s kind of far away from where all the hustle
and bustle is happening in Hong Kong and forms its own community there. It has its own transportation system like the light rail, so you get to explore quite a bit of all the different public estates or even housing residential areas after taking the Tuen Ma line. It’s really nice to be in Hong Kong but also kind of isolated from whatever’s happening there—this is something that I really like about Tuen Mun.

It’s also pretty diverse. They have their seasides, they have their own mountains, they have Castle Peak, and they have their own monasteries, so I think it’s a pretty diverse area to be in.

Best little known gems?

For little known gems, I guess I really like food-hunting around the Tuen Mun Area. One of the places I go to quite frequently is around the Tseng Choi Street area where it’s like a cluster of cafes and family-owned restaurants, so they have quite a lot to offer.

There’s also another pocket place. It’s called Hoh Fuk Tong and it’s right next to Tuen Mun Town Plaza, so if you just cross the street you enter a very quiet neighborhood. They have this
cafe I really like—I suddenly can’t remember the name—but there’s also a bánh mì place.

Best places to eat breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner?

Again, I think it’d be the Tseng Choi Street area. If you take the light rail, it will be the King
Fung stop. In that area, you basically have everything to serve all your needs like light meals at cafes and proper meals at a ramen shop or a Western bar setting. They will have everything that you need.

Best places to drink coffee/find a drink?

I don’t really go for alcohol around the region, but if there’s really a place I like going to, there’s
this restaurant called Atlantis right next to Golden Beach; they have this outdoor terrace where you can have a drink. If you feel like it, you can also always pop to Gold Coast Hotel; they have two bars there that are pretty nice and cozy.

If it’s for coffee, it’s again the Hoh Fuk Tong region with that little cafe. It’s run by a sister duo, so they take turns running it and do exclusively cafe food and coffee.

Best other hangouts?

I have three places in mind. The first would be Golden Beach and the Gold Coast Piazza. It’s a more European-style place, so you feel like you’re transported to the Mediterranean in that sense.

The second place I would recommend is the Tuen Mun Park. It’s a really large space, you get a lot of green areas where you can picnic. Fun fact: they also have a reptile place there. It’s one of the government-owned small reptile zoos, so you get to see snakes and lizards and whatnot; that used to be one of my favorite childhood spots.

The third place would be the Tuen Mun Pier. It’s just nice to walk around the promenade.
There’s also quite a number of local eateries, so even if you’re not there to take a ferry to, like, Tai O or anything, it’s just nice to hang out in the area.

What’s true/not true about your neighbourhood?

People usually stereotype the people living in Tuen Mun as “Tuen Mun Cows” because they
think it’s so far away, it’s so rural that everyone rides cows. Of course, that’s a long-running
joke. Of course it’s not! But then it’s actually a pretty urbanized area. You have a lot of
everything going on. You have shops, huge malls, huge residential areas, so I think that’s a fun side to it.

Also, there’s this thing about the Tuen Mun Highway always being congested. As much as there are quite a lot of traffic accidents that you don’t want to happen there, it’s actually not that bad. People sometimes joke about being stuck on the highway for, like, three hours. I mean, there’s a little truth to it, but it’s actually not as bad as people think.