Kings Wing Plaza Phase 1 — Local services in Hong Kong

Kings Wing Plaza 1 & 2 are commercial properties that opened just outside the Shek Mun MTR a few years ago. What you will find here are typical towers where the upper floor office space, churches, tutorial centres and other service related businesses while the lower floors are shopping centres with retail and service shops, casual eateries and coffee shops.

Kings Wing Plaza 1 is a bit more modern with glassed in shops, quite a few local restaurants, a couple of western cafes, Whitehouse Coffee shop as well as a HK Identify Card replacement centre. Kings Wing Plaza 2 has some of the same category of businesses including a large ground floor bar and cafe called Golem and coffee shop called Coti on 2/F. The first floor is arranged like a traditional arcade like shopping space with lots of small units selling all manner of foods, retail items and the likes.

Overall, Kings Wing Plaza is an improved shopping venue in the area compared to the Shek Mun Shopping Arcade located on the other side of the MTR Station. Some fair restaurant options for those staying in nearby Courtyard by Marriott and Alva...

If you're looking for a colossal and glamorous shopping mall with designer bags and luxury brands, this is not the place you want.

But if you like to eat and are bored with the chain restaurants and cafes in large shopping malls, this is a good place for treasure hunt.

They do have a few chain eateries there like Fairwood and Saizeriya, but there are also many small shops serving Chinese, Western, Japanese, Taiwanese, Thai cuisines, and so forth.

Since many of these shops are small in scale, the staff are usually very friendly. As for food, it's hard to generalize about their quality. But the number of shops should have provided enough varieties to cater for...

A relatively sparse mall in Shek Mun, with a significant proportion of vacant or perpetually closed shops.

Nonetheless, the biggest redemption of this mall is the fact that it hosts a plethora of small, independently run restaurants and shops, a far-cry from the conglomerate infested, gentrified malls you can find in the rest of Sha tin. Hence, I highly recommend one to make a visit if you live or work nearby -- who knows, you might even find your new favourite neighborhood...