Part 9

Understand all Sleeping Dogs map icons, including enemies, police, stores, and collectibles, to navigate Hong Kong.

Enemies [red man icon]

This icon is used generally to represent hostiles. In free roam (when not in a mission), it indicates a group of thugs who are guarding a lockbox collectible.

Police Patrolman [blue or blue/red man icon]

A blue icon indicates a passive policeman on patrol. If you have Heat (your wanted rating), the police will pursue you and the icon will flash blue/red instead.

Police Vehicle [blue or blue/red star icon]

This marker works exactly like the previous one.

Parking Garages [white "P" icon]

Through the magic of video-game logic you have convenient access to your whole collection of owned cars and bikes from any one of twenty different garages. Not only that but you can pick one of three or more colour-schemes each time! See Section 08 for a list of vehicles you can own. You'll acquire the majority of these by buying them from vehicle vendors. Tip: Once you've unlocked the Face advantage Car Valet (see Section 05c) you can have a vehicle delivered to your current location whenever you want. (You can specify which one you'll get on the parking garage interface.) Unlike in some games, stolen vehicles cannot be stored at the garages.

Vehicle Stores [white car icon]

There are four vehicle vendors in the game: two in North Point, one in Central and one in Kennedy Town. See Section 08 for lists of shops and vehicles.

Clothing Stores [white tee-shirt icon]

There are thirteen clothing vendors in the game: six in North Point, six in Central and one in Kennedy Town. See Section 09 for full details of the shops and the clothes and accessories you can buy there.

Legendary Outfits [yellow tee-shirt icon]

In Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition there's an additional clothing stall in the Night Market where you can buy various DLC (Downloadable Content) outfits and hats/masks.

Convenience Stores [white soda can icon]

These stores sell the Dragon Kick energy drink which buffs your melee damage. You can also buy this from the green vending machines and from the Dragon Kick promo girls (or use the permanent free supply in your safehouse fridges). Tip: This effect can be boosted with Face advantage unlocks (see Section 05c).

Apothecaries [white steaming bowl icon]

An apothecary is someone who prepares and dispenses medicines - it's basically an old-fashioned name for a pharmacist. In the game you can visit one to buy a cup of herbal tea which gives you a temporary protective buff (a reduction to the amount of damage you take in combat). . As with food, you can also buy herbal tea from market stalls such as the one outside your North Point safehouse.

Massage Parlours [white hands icon]

Getting a massage - or a (*cough*) "massage" from a less reputable outlet - temporarily increases the rate at which your Face meter fills. .

Karaoke [white musical note icon]

You can play the karaoke minigame (see Section 07k) at these locations.

Martial Arts Clubs [orange exploding-fists (?) icon]

There are four "fight club" tournaments available (see Section 07e).

Melee Training [white (or green) fist icon]

At this dojo in southern North Point you can practise fighting against the four special classes of melee opponent (see Section 03a). The icon will be green if you have one or more jade statues (see Section 12b) to return to Sifu Kwok. For each statue you return to him you can learn one new melee combo (see Section 05d).

Dating [pink woman icon]

The game uses this pink marker when you have a date (see Section 07c).

Street-Races [orange waypoint (a marker on your map you've manually placed as a destination) icon with chequered flag]

The icon indicates the starting point for a race; hovering the cursor over the icon shows the title, route and finishing point of that race. See Section 07h for a full list of races available.

Cockfighting Rings [orange rooster icon]

These are locations where you can bet on cockfights (see Section 07i).

Gambling Dens [orange coin icon]

There are two offshore locations where you can play the poker mahjong minigame (see Section 07j). Unless you're prepared to spend a very long time swimming, you'll need to access these by boat so check out any coastal areas where there are buildings or piers and you'll usually find a boat you can use. (these locations are locked until you complete favours or a police case there)

Collectibles [various grey or white icons]

As you progress through the dating side-missions (see Section 07c) you'll earn the massively useful ability of having the location of collectibles marked on your minimap. Grey icons are ones you still need, white icons are ones that you've already collected.

Megajump [grey arrow icon]

A small upwards-pointing arrow indicates a large vehicle jump you've found. Jumping these will help you evade the police when they're chasing you.

Color Coding

The following colour-coding is applied consistently across map icons, waypoints (a marker on your minimap indicating your destination), satnav routes and mission titles:

• Story mission: green
• Dating: pink
• Case: dark blue
• Drug bust: pale blue
• Job / Race: orange
• Favour: yellow