Quarry Bay is an area beneath Mount Parker in the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. The western portion of the area was also formerly known as Lai Chi (). Traditionally an industrial and residential area, the number of commercial buildings in this district has increased since the 1990s. Quarry Bay is bordered by Sai Wan Ho to the east, Mount Parker to the south, North Point to the west, and Victoria Harbour to the north. Administratively, it is part of Eastern District. Quarry Bay is considered as an area surrounded by to the east, Hong Shing Street and to the south, junction of King's Road and Healthy Street West to the west, and History The 1819 edition of the Gazetteer of Sun On County () did not mention today's Quarry Bay. Historians such as Anthony Kwok Kin Siu suggested Quarry Bay was a remote area before British colonial time. During Colonial Hong Kong times, the Hakka stonemasons settled in the area after the British arrival. This area was a bay where rock from the hillsides were quarried and transported by ship for building construction or road building. The Chinese name Tsak Yue Chung () reveals that it was a small stream where crucian carp () could be found in the 19th century. The English name was Arrow Fish Creek. The original bay has disappeared since land reclamation has taken place, and was about from the current coastline. Taikoo The eastern part of Quarry Bay, namely , was largely owned by Swire and therefore many places and facilities are named after the company's Chinese name, Taikoo. The river originally flowed into the bay, however it was shut off from the sea with the construction of the to supply fresh water to the Taikoo Dockyard, the Taikoo Sugar factory at Tong Chong Street (), and later the Swire Coca-Cola factory at Greig Road () and Yau Man Street (). The upper course of the river was converted into a cement-paved catchwater, and the lower course is the present-day Quarry Bay Street (), with the original estuary near the Quarry Bay Street - King's Road junction. In the mid-1980s, the hillside was converted into Kornhill apartment buildings, the reservoir into () apartment buildings, and the Dockyard into Taikoo Shing. The Coca-Cola factory is now apartment Kornville (), and Taikoo Sugar is now the Taikoo Place, a commercial hub. Lai