A few blocks away from the Bridges Street YMCA, on Peel Street, cocktail bar Kinsman serves tipples shaken with Cantonese spirits like black glutinous rice wine, sourced from a distillery nestled on the slopes of Tai Mo Shan - Hong Kong's highest peak, located in the New Territories. Kinsman's interiors mimic a Wong Kar-wai film set. Bar co-founder Gavin Yeung says that the idea is to conjure up a feel of "looking back at old Hong Kong through a dusty windowpane".

Visitors to the Soundtrack of Our Lives exhibition, held from July to September, are still talking about its heartstrings-tugging re-creations of '90s-style environments - a cha chaan teng and a zeitgeisty repair shop complete with cathode-ray tube TV monitors, among others. Held at Tai Kwun - the site of Hong Kong's erstwhile Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison - the show was a celebration of two '90s Cantopop legends, composer Joseph Koo and lyricist James Wong.