Hong Kong Jumbo Floating Restaurant

2022 - 6 - 15

Jumbo Floating Restaurant

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Where will Jumbo go? Will the iconic restaurant float down to S'pore? (Mothership.sg)

Hong Kong's iconic Jumbo floating restaurant has left its home in the city's Aberdeen South Typhoon Shelter, with its ultimate destination being uncertain. What ...

Added to that is the ship's own linage. It will likely need significant repair, and refitting to meet the standards of its new home. For all the speculation, no one really knows where the restaurant barge will land. In recent years, the city has been hit hard by the pandemic. Much of its visitors hailed from China, with over 120,000 in 2017. Jumbo Floating Seafood Restaurant may be moved out of— HongKonger (@hongkongersin) #HongKongtomorrow, after its owner decided to stop its operations and not to renew its shipping license weeks ago. Its kitchen barge has already sank into the sea last week, symbolizing the death of #HongKong's good old days. For more pragmatic reasons, Singapore seems a good fit. But hopefully it will be somewhere as excited to receive it as the boats in Aberdeen harbour were sad to see it go. The ultimate destination of the Jumbo restaurant ship is now unknown, but a press release by the restaurant’s owners, reported in this Hong Kong Free Press article, has said that the ship will be undergoing repairs in an unspecified location in Southeast Asia. Melco had attempted to keep the ship in Hong Kong. The most notable of these efforts was giving it free of charge to the Ocean Park Corporation, a not-for-profit organization in Hong Kong that operates the famous Ocean Park theme park. The Jumbo floating restaurant was the centrepiece of a restaurant complex known as the Jumbo Kingdom. The complex has been closed since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the cost of maintaining the floating restaurant has become prohibitive, with Jumbo’s parent company Melco International Development reporting a loss of over HK$100 million (S$17.7 million).

Jumbo Floating Restaurant Towed Away After 44 Years, Hong Kong ... (Must Share News)

For more than four decades, the Jumbo Floating Restaurant in Hong Kong (HK) has been one of the most iconic landmarks of the city. Located by the ocean, ...

For more than four decades, the Jumbo Floating Restaurant in Hong Kong (HK) has been one of the most iconic landmarks of the city. The pandemic hadn’t helped matters as well, causing a steep drop in interest for the restaurant. According to The Straits Times (ST), tugboats towed away Hong Kong’s famous Jumbo Floating Restaurant around noon on Tuesday (14 Jun).

Hong Kong bids farewell to Jumbo Kingdom, the world's largest ... (CNN)

Measuring about 260 feet long, the colossal three-story Jumbo Floating Restaurant was famous for its gigantic green and red neon sign reading "foon ying ...

"A restaurant on this scale on a floating structure is quite unique in the world. The company revealed that the restaurant had been suffering a deficit since 2013. Nothing has been confirmed about the future of these boats so far. "Some dismissed its architectural importance as it was only a 'faux' imperial design but I disagree -- it's an interesting attempt [at] transforming a floating space [into] an ancient Chinese palace. Those fond memories of his childhood at the Aberdeen fishing village in the harbor inspired him to found Seayou in 2018. We're just downhearted to see the government jeopardizing its own plan [to invigorate the neighborhood] set in 2020 and their decision to 'not interfere' [in Jumbo's fate]," says Chan. There's no other place in Hong Kong that could deliver the same feeling." It was a much-loved neighbor of CNN's Hong Kong office. Jumbo also served a greater meaning as my parents and I held our wedding banquets there. We do understand that maintaining Jumbo may be challenging. Throughout this journey, it has been a great honor for us to share beautiful collective memories with local and foreign visitors. In recent years, Jumbo Floating Restaurant was the only one of the group that was operational and open to diners.

Why Hong Kong's Famous Jumbo Floating Restaurant Has Closed (Tasting Table)

Hong Kong's massive Jumbo Floating Restaurant may be closed for good. The iconic eatery was recently towed from Aberdeen Harbour. Find out why here.

AP reports that Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises closed Jumbo Floating Restaurant's doors in 2020 due to the pandemic. The Washington Post points out that Jumbo Floating Restaurant's extravagant banquets featuring roast suckling pig, lobster, and other Cantonese delicacies were some of its main attractions. The restaurant shut its doors in 2020.

Hong Kong's Iconic Floating Restaurant Has Been Towed to an ... (Food & Wine)

Jumbo Kingdom shut down in March 2020 and did not reopen.

Some longtime Hong Kong residents gathered in the harbor to watch as the restaurant was slowly towed away. The Jumbo Floating Restaurant — which, together with the neighboring Tai Pak floating restaurant, have been known as Jumbo Kingdom — never reopened. In early March 2020, Hong Kong's iconic Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant posted a short message on its social media accounts.

Pandemic sinks famous HK floating restaurant featured in ... (The Star Online)

Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a famed but ageing tourist attraction that featured in multiple Cantonese and Hollywood films, was towed out of the ...

(Coming here) to see it is like bidding my farewell." It's a restaurant that's known to the world." "There are quite some childhood memories for me," he said. It featured a "dragon throne" in the style of the Ming dynasty as well as an opulent mural. "I think it is such a pity to see it go," she said. "The exterior was for many years a symbol of Hong Kong," he said, adding he had eaten there once 20 years ago.

Jumbo Floating Restaurant, Hong Kong: It's the end for the world's ... (Stuff.co.nz)

A landmark floating restaurant that fed Cantonese cuisine and seafood to Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise and millions of other diners has been towed from ...

“We do not foresee that (Jumbo Floating Restaurant) can resume business in the immediate future,” the company said. But Jumbo Floating Restaurant was forced to close in 2020 due to the pandemic, and all staff were laid off. It was famed for its lavish banquet meals, with dishes such as roasted suckling pig, lobster and double-boiled bird’s nest, a Chinese delicacy.