became popular in the typhoon shelters in Hong Kong. The largest of these was Taibai Seafood Boat.
So its owner Wang Laoji raised a lot of money to build a larger and more luxurious seafood boat, named "Jumbo"!
However, people did not expect that before the opening, there was a huge fire!
At that time, the fire burned for more than 10 hours, causing 34 deaths and 42 injuries, and the hull was severely damaged.
In 1971, Wong Lo Kat, who couldn't afford anymore, sold the treasure boat to the gambling kings Ho Hongshen and Zheng Yutong. The two pooled 30 million to redecorate the treasure boat!
According to the meaning of the king of gambling, the new treasure seafood boat is just two words: big! How!
Therefore, the final "treasure" is 76 meters long, 22 meters wide, 28 meters high (three stories high), has a displacement of 3,300 tons, an area of 45,000 square feet, and can accommodate 3,000 guests at the same time. It is "the largest in the world." Sea restaurant".
is modeled after the design of the Chinese palace, and the whole seafood boat is resplendent with the theme of the dragon, so it is also known as the "Sea Palace".
This luxurious maritime palace has attracted politicians and business leaders from all over the world, including Queen Elizabeth II, movie stars Tom Cruise, Chow Yunfat and Gong Li, and more than 30 million visitors come here to check in.
The classic and luxurious decoration also made it a filming location for many movies, such as Stephen Chow's "The God of Cookery". The finals were shot here.
In "Infernal Affairs 2", Ni Yongxiao, played by Wu Zhenyu, was taken away by Huang Qiusheng and other police officers when he was attending a cocktail party at Zhenbao Seafood Boat. He finally left the sentence "I will pay it back sooner or later".
In the most beautiful time, the Jumbo Seafood Boat received more than 10,000 customers a day. According to the staff, there were a lot of tourists from the mainland at that time, and the whole boat was often pulled onto the seafood boat...
However, with the decline of mainland tourists, the good days of Jumbo Seafood Boat are gone. In early January, half of the employees were laid off in order to cut expenses.
"There is no business now. Sometimes a ship of this size only has 9 guests a day..." Old Man Chen, who has worked as a security guard here for 30 years, is very embarrassed.
has gone through 97 years of financial turmoil and survived the 2003 SARS, but Jumbo Seafood Boat failed to survive the spring of 2020: all employees were fired, and business was announced.
So far, this boat that has witnessed the development of Hong Kong from a small fishing village to a metropolis, carrying Hong Kong’s cultural history and their collective memories, has finally come to an end. This also makes many people who like it very reluctant to give up.
