Jumbo Floating Restaurant

Hong Kong's iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant has been towed away from its Aberdeen harbour home after 46 years. The restaurant was styled like a Chinese ...

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

The company planned to move it to a lower-cost site where maintenance could still be conducted. It said potential deals to keep the restaurant open were thwarted by the high operating costs. But Jumbo Floating Restaurant was forced to close in 2020 due to the pandemic, and all staff were laid off.

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

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Admirers watched helplessly as the iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant was towed away from Aberdeen Harbor in Hong Kong on June 14. Founded in October 1976, ...

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Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant was towed out of the city Tuesday after the Covid pandemic finally sank the struggling business.

Aberdeen harbour was traditionally a hotspot for seafood eateries — and fierce competition for customers only cooled when Jumbo’s operators acquired its biggest competitor, Tai Pak Floating Restaurant, in the 1980s. It’s a restaurant that’s known to the world,” she said. The ailing restaurant’s fate was sealed just days before Lam is set to leave office. Under overcast skies, a scattered group of onlookers gathered on the Aberdeen waterfront to see it be dragged away. “I believe it will come back and I look forward to it,” he added wistfully. Restaurant owner Melco International Development announced last month that ahead of its licence expiration in June, Jumbo would leave Hong Kong and await a new operator at an undisclosed location.

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).

Hong Kong's famed Jumbo Floating Restaurant is no more, with the giant tourist attraction being towed from Aberdeen Harbour, making it the latest victim of ...

The company planned to move it to a lower-cost site where maintenance could still be conducted. I don't think there are any left." Parent company Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises said it had become a financial burden to shareholders, as millions of Hong Kong dollars were spent on inspection and maintenance of the structure every year, even though the restaurant was not in operation.

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).

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.