Just beyond Tai Po town, Sam Mun Tsai is a tranquil fishing community where families still tend floating fish rafts on the Shuen Wan typhoon shelter, with the Plover Cove Reservoir dam rising across the water.

Hands-on aquaculture workshops, stilt-built pang uk homes and easy access to the Ma Shi Chau geological trail make it a gentle, old-Hong-Kong day out.