The Floating Restaurant Sank In Deep Sea Forever
Once a time, there was a mega-sized Chinese restaurant in the middle of Aberdeen typhoon shelter, Hong Kong. The restaurant was ever the largest floating restaurant in the world, had an area of 4,200 square meters (45,000 sq ft), and could seat up to 2,300 diners.
The restaurant appeared in a number of famous movies, such as Jackie Chan’s The Protector (1985), Stephen Chow’s The God of Cookery (1996), Godzilla vs Destroyah, Infernal Affairs II, Emanuelle Around the World (1977) and Contagion (2011). Over 30 million visitors had visited Jumbo Kingdom during the last couple of decades, including Queen Elizabeth II, Jimmy Carter, Tom Cruise, Chow Yun Fat, and Gong Li. Despite its popularity in its early years, the floating restaurant suspended operations in 2020 amidst the coronavirus outbreak and after those two years, on 14 June 2022, the restaurant was towed out of Hong Kong to an unspecified location to await a new operator. While being towed in the South China Sea, the floating restaurant experienced bad weather and capsized near the Paracel Islands on 19 June 2022, as reported by its owner.
This is the Jumbo Floating Restaurant (珍寶海鮮舫).
