Garden of Stars

The first stop would have to be a stroll along the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront at the newly relaunched Garden of Stars, in front of K11 Art Mall. The Hong Kong Bruce Lee Club paid for and erected a statue of Lee on what was originally the nearby Avenue of Stars, in 2005 on what would have been Lee’s 65th birthday.

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The bronze statue sees Lee in his ready to strike stance as seen in his 1972 Fist of Fury movie. Sadly, this is the only tourist site the city has of its best known international icon.

218 Nathan Road

Just a 10-minute walk from the waterfront, in the Jordan area of Nathan Road, is a small mall called the Prudential Centre, on the corner of Tak Shing Street and Nathan Road. This is the spot where Bruce Lee lived in the 1940s and 1950s when his family came back from California just after he was born.

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Back then 218 Nathan Road was the residental Katherine Building and the Lee family lived on the second floor until Lee left for California in 1959. Katherine Building was torn down in the 1970s for MTR construction.

Opposite his home at 223 Nathan Road was the Shamrock Hotel where the family used to enjoy regular family gatherings at its restaurant. The hotel closed last month after 58 years in business.

Fighting ability discovered at school

La Salle Primary School and St Francis Xavier’s College, in Kowloon Tong and Tai Kok Tsui respectively, are where Bruce Lee went to school. Although he was a child actor at the time, notching up around 18 films during his childhood, it was at St Francis Xavier’s College where his fighting talent was discovered. Lee was fighting other kids in the bathroom when one of the teachers, Brother Edward, walked in.

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Instead of punishing him, he enrolled Lee into the boxing team, which went on to win the championship. Lee moved to the USA in Form 4 to finish his education, which is where he developed and started to teach martial arts.

Where he lived in the 1970s

When Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong in 1971, with his wife Linda and children Brandon and Shannon, they moved into a flat on the 13th floor of Sunlight Garden in Man Wan Road on Waterloo Hill. Next they moved to nearby 41 Cumberland Road, also known as the Crane’s Nest, in Kowloon Tong, where the family lived from 1972 until Lee’s death the following year.

Unfortunately, the house was demolished last year due to structural concerns. It had been converted to a love motel for many years before its demise.

Film locations

Tsing Shan Monastery in Tuen Mun is where Bruce Lee filmed Enter the Dragon. The movie came out soon after Bruce Lee’s untimely death in July 1973 – and this is the movie that made him into an international superstar and was said to have launched more than a thousand fight clubs around the world.

Some of Lee’s best known quotes were in this film, such as “Don’t think, feel! It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.” There are plaques and life-size cut-outs of Lee to show the exact spot where he stood at the monastery.

Aberdeen harbour was also featured in Enter the Dragon, where Lee and other fighters meet up on a junk heading for fictional Han Island. Aberdeen harbour has fewer boats docked there now.

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Ocean Terminal

The outdoor car park at Ocean Terminal is where Lee did a photo shoot in 1972 when Golden Harvest was taking its stars on board for a tour of the cruise liner Princess Coral.

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