The best cafes and coffee shops in Sham Shui Po

Wander along Sham Shui Po’s roads to find Colour Brown, a cafe with a large green entrance that you can’t miss. This casual venue has become one of the neighbourhood’s hotspots, due to its industrial aesthetics featuring bare concrete interiors, dark green steel fixtures, and a spiral staircase that leads to Go.On Space, a creative art hub located on the cafe’s first floor. Pair your favourite coffees with Colour Brown’s range of pastries and noodle dishes, such as chicken ramen with scallion oil.

Yudei is a vegetarian cafe and spiritual activity venue that spans over two floors. Here, customers can meditate and take part in various experiences that will allow them to unwind in peace. The cafe’s first floor is a self-service vegetarian cafe with Japanese tatami flooring, and customers are required to take off their shoes before sitting down to enjoy bites like noodles, raw vegan desserts, and gua bao - Taiwanese-style filled buns - along with house-roasted tea or coffee. Continue upstairs to find Yudei’s space for healing activities, which includes sound bathing, ear picking, and even tattooing, all of which require an online reservation.

Loop Kulture is an eco-friendly cafe with a focus on sustainability and upcycling culture. Joining the forever-expanding cafe scene in Sham Shui Po, Loop Kulture occupies a two-storey space decked out in wooden furnishing and a vast array of greenhouse plants. The cafe mainly serves specialty coffee and healthy light meals, but you can also get your hands on unpackaged food products which encourages customers to bring their own containers (paper bags can be provided otherwise). By providing a place for relaxation and rejuvenation, the owner of Loop Kulture hopes that the space can drive awareness of environmental conservation to visitors and help them build a new conscious and sustainable lifestyle.

This former fabric store has been revamped into Cofflow Specialty Coffee, a cafe with plenty of local and nostalgic flair. In addition to retaining some old wall tiles as decoration, the cafe also has its name engraved onto its storefront iron gates, making the venue a frequented photo spot. Need some privacy? They’ve also got an upper seating space which allows customers to sip on their coffees in peace. Try Cofflow’s raw honey latte, made using honey sourced from local bee farm Hong Kong Raw Honey, or their signature beverage, Three Mixed, which combines coffee with milk and Uji matcha.

Cafe bar So Coffee & Gin previously operated as Man Hing Sewing Machine Company, but was transformed into a two-storey cafe by the store’s third-generation owner. It has even kept several old sewing machines as decoration to showcase the venue’s former identity. Aside from pouring speciality coffees, So Coffee & Gin also offers cocktails, gin & tonics, wine, and spirits like whisky for customers to sip on. As for its food menu, the cafe provides options like salads, pizzas, and mains such as steak and acqua pazza, as well as several keto-friendly dishes and desserts.

Located on the corner of Maple Street and Tai Nan Street is Buff, a cafe with an eye-catching shuttergate decoration that’s become one of the hottest photo spots in Sham Shui Po. The cafe’s interior is decked out with pale wood fixtures and ceiling-to-floor windows, which create a laid-back and relaxed atmosphere. On Buff’s menu, you’ll find a variety of global dishes such as mentaiko-stuffed chicken wings, tom yum prawn orecchiette, Angus beef brioche, and plenty more.

As one of Sham Shui Po’s hottest cafes, this spot has become a mecca for javaholics across the city with its brilliant brews. Aside from classic lattes and cappuccinos, Cafe Sausalito’s menu also offers a curated selection of single-origin pour-over​ coffees from various countries, and speciality beverages like cucumberano – a cucumber-flavoured coffee and soda water concoction.