That big yellow building in Sai Kung’s Old Town? It’s part café, part singing studio, part art space. “We’re trying to build a community,” says co-founder Charlie Yip. She runs Neoart³ Coffee Lover with her father Ronald and family friends in what has become a multi-generational passion project.
Ronald had spent more than 30 years in the textiles industry before he was made redundant during the pandemic. When the opportunity came up to rent an entire building in Sai Kung, he and the team took a chance. Charlie, who studied journalism at CUHK, stepped in to help – and now she teaches her singing classes upstairs.
Sai Kung has long been a place where small, independent cafés quietly thrive, buoyed by community support. Wander into Old Town and you’ll find a network of homegrown cafés shaped by the people who run them and the neighbourhood that raised them.
Tales Café charms with New York–style sandwiches, bagels and unfussy coffee. NN (No Nationality) Coffee and Kachimushi embrace Japanese-Scandi minimalism, offering calm, clean spaces for thoughtful coffee and simple lunches. Then there are the playful outposts: Hushush Coffee, with ice-cream-meets-coffee concoctions, and Deer Coffee, adorned with campy art.
