Historic Hong Kong hotel that was host to Bruce Lee warns it could close amid pandemic losses and changing tastes

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The 84-year-old Lung Wah Hotel, with gardens, a children’s playground and a mini zoo, was the grandest hostelry in Hong Kong’s eastern New Territories in its 1950s heyday. But the historic hotel, now reduced to just its restaurant operation, signalled last Friday (Sept 13) it might shut its doors for good in the next six months because of trading conditions....

South China Morning Post

Kung fu film star Bruce Lee was also one of the guests and taught his younger brother Robert Lee Wing martial arts on the hotel rooftop in the 1960s. Subordinates of then-Taiwan leader Chiang Ching-kuo ­transported the dish back to the self-ruled island by air for him in the 1960s and the city’s last British Governor, Chris Patten, was also among its clientele.

Hong Kong’s social-distancing rules, such as restrictions on the size of city group tours and the number of diners at banquets, also pushed away city patrons. She added that the government could show support with a further relaxation of social distancing rules and reopening the border with mainland China.

 

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