HONG Kong has bid farewell to Jumbo Kingdom, the world’s largest floating restaurant. Tugboats arrived last week to tow away the seafood eatery, a Hong Kong fixture for almost half a century. Jumbo Kingdom has become less popular among locals and tourists in the past decade, and as with so...
HONG Kong has bid farewell to Jumbo Kingdom, the world’s largest floating restaurant.
Tugboats arrived last week to tow away the seafood eatery, a Hong Kong fixture for almost half a century.
Jumbo Kingdom has become less popular among locals and tourists in the past decade, and as with so many other businesses treading water, the COVID-19 pandemic dealt it the final blow.
In Mar 2020, the restaurant’s owners said that they had accumulated a loss of over HKD$100 million (AUD$18 million) and announced that the restaurant would be closed until further notice.
Several proposals had been put forward to save it, but its high maintenance cost deterred potential investors.
Without a rescuer, the owners decided to move the restaurant to an undisclosed shipyard away from Hong Kong before its operating license expires this month.
Nothing has been confirmed about the future of the boat, and it looks like dining at Jumbo is now permanently off the menu.
