A very important question regarding hong kong (Kowloon in particularP. Do the shopping malls and other large shops, museums, etc have western toilets as well as eastern toilets? Elderly traveller, such as myself, find it difficult, in fact, well nigh impossible to use eastern toilets.

I have a spine problem and never experienced any problems at all, most shopping malls have western facilities, I used Hotels quite often, or the hotel cafes. Only in more remote places did I find just eastern style, and then I managed!
It will be fine.
Pauline.

as i remember all toilets in HK were western style in places tourists would frequent..

You can find squat toilets in the older public toilets. "Public" meaning they're built and maintained by the government, located in some public buildings or near piers, etc. Stick with the ones in the nicer places like you've already described.

Note that some malls have their bathrooms locked and you'll need a key from a merchant/tenant.

Also, at the nicest hotels, toilets near the lobby may have attendants and they expect a tip.

Just a post to thank all the kind people who replied to my query regarding western toilets in Hong Kong. It has eased a niggling worry my sister and I had about our holiday next december.

One tip that may be useful, taxis are usually easily available and cheap, the MTR (the metro) is fine, but when its busy can be quite difficult with the crowds, there are a lot of steps to access the MTR and I can't recall any escalators, there is also a walk to the trains. I much preferred taking a taxi! but we also used the buses which again run frequently, give out the next stop in Mandarin, Cantonese and English and are easy to use. Search for Cicerones guide to Restaurants and also her other amazing posting "What to do in Hong Kong" that is well worth a look in December 2 years ago we went to a carol service at the church on Hong Kong Island which we enjoyed and then one of Cicerones favourite restaurants afterwards.