Don't even shop at Watsons or Guardian pharmacy. This place has it all and at half the price. In…read morefact, you can get some prescription drugs without prescription (shhh...). Anything you find at the major pharmacy stores, you can get here at approximately a quarter of the price. It is centrally located, literally located in the middle of central. If you looking for cologne / perfume, this is also the place to go to, if you are too lazy to hitch a ride to Shenzhen. An amazing shop, one has to wonder how they get everything so cheap. A shopping must, if you are looking for essentials!

This store literally amazes me. You can buy everything from old-school shaving foam to hardcore…read moreantibiotics here. Out of town visitors are always astounded that a prescription is not needed for the medicines you can pick up here. I discovered Fanda whilst at university as the frequent flights home for holidays left me in a near permanent state of jet lag I went in for melatonin and walked out with a pack zolief which knocks you out for a guaranteed five hours so that you can get enough sleep on the first night in a new city to function the next day. Years later you can still buy sleeping pills but I tend to pick up less extreme medication these days - paracetamols, decongestants and asthma inhalers to combat the effects of the city's pollution. I also rely on Fanda for buying make up wipes in bulk and picking up various supplements such as giant jars of fish oil capsules. They also have a great range of nail products including stickers which are perfect for holidays when you need to hide chipped polish. The counter is always busy so if you don't want to share your business with the world, write down your shopping list and pass it to the staff - they'll discreetly bag up the items so that no one need know what your ailment is.

I have been seeing the dietitian here for the pass 3 months and I my body fat % has dropped by 7%!!…read moreIt's definitely a hidden gem that not too many people know of! Yes! Watsons has personalized dietitian services at a very reasonable price! Much better than other dietitian chains that you can find here in Hong Kong. I have been eating healthily and dropping lbs slowly. What's amazing is that my body fat % dropped from 29% to 22% in 3 months! They teach me to count portions of different food groups, and adjust my meal plan every time when I see them based on my progress. I would highly recommend Watson's dietitian service to anyone who wants to lose weight healthily. However, you have to be very committed to your assigned meal plan! I have been coming to this TST store for consultations but not all Watson's have dietitian consultation service, check their website for more details.

It's a giant pharmacy with all your needs. Walked inside and it has cosmetics , snacks like cookies…read moreand random things like Chinese mushrooms (which seems out of place for some reason). Then you have the medicine stuff and mostly off counter.

Jinsang tea & other traditional herbal medicine/ vitaminish stuff that I don't really know much…read moreabout. But at $8, I feel better/healthier (perhaps placebo) every time. Try it if you're neighborhood. You'll feel better.

Ancient Chinese secret? Not! We stumbled across this Chinese herbal store after having lunch not…read moretoo far away. Of course I had to try their bitter 24 varieties herbal tea (廿四味) that is good for those who eat too much rich and fried foods. And yes, it was very bitter. You can buy many different herbal drinks here which they have boiled for many hours. Their drinks which are supposed to be good for all sorts of ailments are very concentrated. They must be doing something right as there were a steady stream of people buying their drinks. For $8 a cup, you can't go wrong. Just tell them what symptoms you have and they will point you to the right drink for your health.

One of the best local pharmacy in Ma On Shan. They do have everything that you needed and staffs…read moreare super helpful! Located in MOSTown and easy to spot!

Every Hong Kong girl has her go-to Chinese herbalist and mine is Dr Kelly. She is very kind and…read morepatient and really takes her time to understand your ailments and explain her treatments in western medical terms despite the long wait in the zen-like waiting room. Dr Kelly comes from a family of Chinese and western doctors- the Chain ancestors were doctors back in Ching Dynasty and her husband Dr Chain is a doctor. Her philosophy is blending traditional Chinese medicine with western alternate medicines like aromatherapy and various natural supplements. She also sells Chinese healing herbal teas packaged in western convenience- shrink wrapped tea bags that fits easily into purses for regular consumption. The clinic also boasts a stone energy chamber which facials and yoga classes are held for energy optimization. Bottomline: Dr Kelly, yoga class in stone energy chamber, acupuncture for weight-loss. is awesome.

Chain's is my jam. At the recommendation of another physio-acupuncturist (who wasn't qualified to…read moredispense Chinese Medicine), I started taking my mom here to help treat her mood swings and sleeplessness associated with Alzheimer's Disease. The treatments were very helpful in stabilizing my mom's symptoms. On top of that, the environment of Chain's is extremely warm, inviting, and calming. I love this place! Chain's has been in existence for literally hundreds of years - since the Qing Dynasty. It doesn't get much more legit than that, right? Dr. Kelly Chain and her husband head up the clinic, and they do a bang-up job. They not only offer the usual acupuncture/cupping/Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatments, but they also have branched out into beauty treatments, such as natural anti-aging (i.e., no botox, fillers, and all that other nasty shit that you see SO MUCH OF in Hong Kong . . . ugh) and spa-type treatments. They even offer a yoga class, which takes place in their "stone chamber," a room made of maifan stone with special energetic healing properties. If you're feeling really shitty and come in for a cupping and/or acupuncture treatment, they'll set you up in the stone chamber to give you a little bit of a boost from your treatment (and not upcharge you for it). I started coming to Chain's for cupping/acupuncture/TCM on a weekly basis, after I saw the results on my mom. The results were incredible. Without delving into too much detail, Dr. Kelly and her colleague Dr. Kay Tam (she is phenomenal!!!) were able to rebalance my chi using needles and TCM, and they corrected a hormone imbalance that I had been struggling with for YEARS due to my refusal to "correct" it with western medicine (sorry western doc, but you ain't gonna just put me on The Pill and think that's gonna solve all my problems). I also came down with probably the worst flu of my life while I was living in Hong Kong, and Dr. Kay Tam fixed me up good as new with 2 cupping treatments, a bunch of acu-needles, and TCM. Chain's has made me an acu/TCM addict (in a good way!), and I will be getting my fix every time I return to Hong Kong to visit. Bonus: most medical/health insurance plans offer coverage/benefits for acupuncture & TCM, so claim that shizz!

I should fair in saying this but I have never really had faith in chain medical service providers…read more They give me the feeling that they don't really care about their patients and they are just trying to bolster their coffers in asking you to go through absolutely unnecessary tests and so on. The fact that you seem to find them everywhere also gives me a sense that its medicine on the cheap. So you might be wondering why I actually bothered to go in the first place. That's because for one of my jobs I actually had to go to their centres for a pre-joining medical check. Needless to say their centre was big and clean, felt more like a showroom rather than a medical centre if I'm honest. I was led in to conduct the tests and they were extremely careful about what they did the whole way, despite the fact that they must all have to go through plenty of these humdrum tests all day long. The tests were completed very quickly and I noted that they had a dental practice at the same location. I thought to myself that since I'm here I might as well get that done as well; they actually had a place for me immediately and by the next hour I had it cleansed and looked at. All this brought to me the reality of the situation: we may all want a family GP who talks to us for half an hour and attends family weddings. The thing is though, nowadays we want good, cheap and quick medical service and UMP is right up there.

My husband got sick while we were visiting HK from the US. Our hotel called an on-call doctor for…read moreus from UMP, Dr. Garry Kung. He was in our hotel room in 1.5 hours and saw my husband there, without us having to get in a taxi, travel to the medical center, register, and wait to see a dr there. This was SO much better for my husband, who had a fever and did not want to get out of bed. Dr. Kung was efficient yet thorough, and gave my husband some antibiotics as well as fever-reducing and anti-nausea medication. He also left his card for us to call him directly if my husband got worse. It wasn't cheap but it was so worth it to have a house call in our hotel room. We were very pleased with Dr. Kung and the house-call service offered.