Hong Kong's iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant has capsized in the South China Sea less than a week after it was towed away from the city, its parent company said Monday.
The restaurant was towed away last Tuesday. The company said it planned to move it to a lower-cost site where maintenance could be carried out. It said that prior to its departure, the vessel had been thoroughly inspected by marine engineers and hoardings were installed, and all relevant approvals were obtained.
— NPR
The Wes Anderson-like former fine-dining establishment served some rather well-regarded Cantonese cuisine to diners for more than forty years before being closed and decommissioned earlier this month following the Covid-caused economic downturn of 2020. The three-story vessel reportedly went down in heavy seas near the disputed Parcel Islands chain last week while in the process of being towed to an undisclosed “lower cost site,” according to Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises, the management group responsible for the remaining entity.
Hong Kong’s provisional government had been working on “the rebirth of the floating restaurant” before the sinking, but will now have to shift focus to other preservation efforts as the Jumbo reportedly went down in a spot of ocean more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) deep.
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