Po Toi O () is a small fishing village
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Clear Water Bay Peninsula :''The Chinese name'' 清水灣半島 ''should not be confused with Oscar by the Sea, a private housing estate in Tseung Kwan O.'' Clear Water Bay Peninsula (), is a peninsula in Sai Kung District, Hong Kong. The peninsula separates Junk Bay fro ...

Sai Kung Sai Kung may refer to: * Sai Kung Town, or just Sai Kung, a town and administrative area in the Sai Kung District, Hong Kong * Sai Kung Peninsula, a peninsula in Hong Kong * Sai Kung District, an administrative district in Hong Kong, which does no ...

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

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. The village is situated at a bay shaped like a sack, thus earning its name Po Toi (meaning a "sack").

Administration

Po Toi O is a recognized village under the

Small House Policy The Small House Policy (SHP, ) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The Policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 ye ...

History

Po Toi O was historically a multi-clan village with surnames

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Chan Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) *Chan Caldwel ...

(), Chong () and others.

Features

This small fishing village has two seafood restaurants and is popular with tourists. There is a

Hung Shing Temple Hung Shing Temples or Tai Wong Temples are temples dedicated to Hung Shing Tai Wong (). Hung Shing temples have been widely built in southern China, especially Guangdong province The table provides a partial list of these temples. Hung Shing Fe ...

in Po Toi O. The temple was probably built in 1663. A Kung So () building adjacent to the temple was built in 1740 and was used to deal with village affairs and served as a school until the 1930s. The temple is a Grade III historic building.

In popular culture

* Parts of the

Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywood, ...

movie '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life'' were filmed here

http://www.csb.gov.hk/english/letter/files/showcasing_tela_e.pdf] * Australian celebrity chef Kylie Kwong visited Po Toi O for an episode of the TV series ''Kylie Kwong: Simply Magic''. The episode was called "Hong Kong Island Hideaway

* In the 2018 ITV (TV network), ITV TV miniseries ''

Strangers A stranger is a person who is unknown to another person or group. Because of this unknown status, a stranger may be perceived as a threat until their identity (social science), identity and Character structure, character can be ascertained. Differ ...

'', an apartment owned by a murder victim in Po Toi O proves important to the plot.

Transportation

Po Toi O can be reached by land using Po Toi O Chuen Road (). The village is served by

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Po Lam Po Lam ( Chinese: 寶琳 or 寶林) is a neighbourhood in northern Tseung Kwan O, New Territories. An MTR station with the same name, Tseung Kwan O Village, Yau Yue Wan Village, King Lam Estate, and Po Lam Estate are located there. Name Po ...

Tseung Kwan O Tseung Kwan O New Town is one of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, built mainly on reclaimed land in the northern half of Junk Bay (known as Tseung Kwan O in Chinese/Cantonese language) in southeastern New Territories, after which it is named. ...

to Po Toi O.Transport Department website: Green Minibus Route 16
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References

External links

Delineation of area of existing village Po Toi O (Hang Hau) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)

Pictures of Po Toi O
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