The Stanley was formerly a fishing port, the main street of which is close to the Stanley Bay, compactly existing a series of restaurants and public houses. Some of them provide open air tea houses for customers to enjoy the picturesque scenery of the Stanley Bay, cultivating an atmosphere of European continent.


There is an open air bazar in the Stanley too, which properly sells ready made clothes of different trade marks, souvenir and art ornaments. Along the Stanley Street, there is a temple called Tin Hau Temple (the temple of the Queen of Heaven and Protectress of Seafarers which was built in 1767. During the First World War period, villagers took asylum from war in this temple. Since then, on the 23rd of March, according to the lunar calender every year, the birthday of TinHou, people poured in to worship in this temple.