Treasure seafood, a far -reaching Oriental imagination

In Hong Kong, no one does not know the treasure seafood. The 46 -year -old seafood cricket has been a high -end food house, which was a banquet of countless Hong Kong people. It also appeared many times in the Hong Kong film that was prosperous in the 1980s and 1990s, and it was also a punch place for tourists at home and abroad. In the hearts of many people, treasure seafood is a cultural landmark of Hong Kong and the common memory of generations.

But the increasingly serious business problem made it have to announce that it will be sailed from Hong Kong on June 14 this year. People think that this is a brief farewell, but as a frequent visitor in Hong Kong movies, the ending of this ship seems to be full of drama as the movie plot.

In the middle of the night on June 20, the Hong Kong Tsai Food Group issued a statement, announcing that Treasure Seafood Poor encounters the wind and waves during the dragging on the afternoon of June 18th, the hull enters the water, and starts the roll. ; The hull was fully flipped in the waters near the Xisha Islands on June 19, and because the water depth of the incident exceeded 1,000 meters, it was almost impossible to salvage.

Once the bustling treasure seafood was gone. Some people miss it, and some people think that this is actually an inevitable.

Seafood 于 originally originated from the "singing hall" of water fishermen. In the 1920s and 1930s, fishermen along the coast of Guangdong lived on ships and lived by the sea. The singing church is a place where they gather in the shelter and provide food, drinking, and singing when they marry a banquet. In the 1950s, Hong Kong developed into a trade port. Rich people often came to eat seafood, and fishermen changed their singular boats to a larger -scale seafood. They ate expensive live seafood. Eating in seafood is also a symbol of distinguished identity.

Treasures are not the first seafood in Hong Kong, but it is the most well -known. The "treasure seafood" that people say in the daily context refers to the three seafood crickets including "Taibai Seafood" and "Sea Horn Palace". The latter two were acquired by the treasure in the 1980s. It constituted the later "Treasure Kingdom". Treasure seafood is the largest and most gorgeous, so the reputation is out.

The earliest of them was Taibai Seafood Clear. It was built in 1950, invested by the businessman Yuan Rong, and was later acquired by Wang Laoji. In the 1960s, Wang Laoji hoped to build a larger seafood cricket than "Taibai", so he invested and built the "treasure seafood".

The original Taibai Seafood 香 ｜ Hong Kong old photos

However, just 6 days before the opening, the entire ship was burned directly because the spark was ignited when the workers burned the sparks, and the serious consequences of the decoration workers and the nearby fishermen died and 42 injuries.

Wang Laoji was unable to invest again. In 1972, "Gambling King" He Hongyi and the founder of New World Development Zheng Yutong immediately took over and spent 30 million Hong Kong dollars to rebuild the treasure seafood.

The decoration of the three seafoods is built with reference to traditional Chinese architecture. The Taibai Seafood Pulling hull refers to the design of the Beijing Temple of Heaven. The wall is the phoenix relief, and the ceiling of the atrium is surrounded by the eight immortals. The Haijiao Palace imitated the stone puppet of Beijing Summer Palace.

Treasure seafood is the theme of the entire ship with the theme of the dragon to imitate the form of Chinese court architecture. There are "Dragon Tower", "Fengge", "Golden Palace", "Taihe Hall" and a dragon chair. There are giant seafood pools in the 鲜, and more than 60 seafood is raised, and the door is two giant golden dragon wood carvings. At the side of the main entrance, nine golden faucets will spit out the water column at the same time and shoot a dragon ball in the center. People call it "nine dragon vomiting beads". In the stairwell on the second floor, the mural "Yijin Rong Return" was artificially inlaid by a Italian artist with mosaics. In the 1970s, its cost was nearly one million Hong Kong dollars.

The architectural style of the treasure seafood 舫 仿 ｜ ｜ The official website of the treasure kingdom

In 1978, Treasure Seafood Cycles were officially operated. It is 76 meters long, 22 meters wide, 28 meters high, and an area of ​​4180 square meters, equivalent to a nine -story building. At the peak, it can accommodate 2,300 diners, becoming a well -deserved "world's largest sea food house." As long as you have money, anyone can set up a banquet on the treasure, including wedding banquets, reunion meals, friendship activities, crispy skin and fried crab. When tourists from all over the world come to Hong Kong, they will definitely check in on the treasure.

Treasure Seafood has stopped at the Hong Kong Affes in 46 years, and the lights shone, becoming a well -known cultural landmark in Hong Kong. But for people outside Hong Kong, knowing its existence is more through the 1996 movie "God of Food".

In the movie, the 28th "Super Food God Contest" was set in the treasure seafood, and the Stephen Zhou played by Zhou Xingchi played to Tang Niu, using a bowl of "sad ecstasy rice" to capture the title of God.

The god of food on the treasure seafood 舫 ｜ The movie "God of Food"

In an interview with TVB, Tian Qiwen, the filmmaker of "God of Food", said that the ending of the film has been filmed for nearly a week, because the treasure seafood is still open during the day, and can only be filmed at night. Total white seafood shot.

In "Infernal Affairs 2", Ni Yongxiao played by Wu Zhenyu went to the return banquet of the treasure seafood to the "Labor Sports Association". Between each other, the police suddenly arrested him. The Ni family failed to "lift his head to be a man", and at the end of the movie, the treasure seafood was slowly sinking.

In addition, the films filmed in the treasures of treasure seafood also include "Dragon Fighting Tiger", "Special Police New Humans", 007 series of movies "Golden Gun Man", Japanese "Godzilla" and "Cheating the World" and so on. The video game "Resident Evil 6" and "The Legend of Hungry Wolf 2" also used this as the background.

Treasure Seafood 哥 and Godzilla ｜ The movie "The Century Coses' Century Better Kill Array"

As a background of time and space, Treasure Seafood Symnomies seem to have witnessed the golden age of Hong Kong films. It also participated in the unified impression of the world for Hong Kong: with a mysterious oriental color, but it is modern and westernized. Like the two huge signboards above the treasure seafood, the red traditional "treasure" and the green neon light "jumbo".

Since its operation, Treasure Seafood Circles has received countless celebrities. The well -known British Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise, Gong Li, and Chow Yun Fat. He Hongzhang's birthday banquet almost every year was also held on the treasure until he was seriously ill after the age of 92.

With the end of the golden age of Hong Kong films, the treasure seafood crickets, as the background of the old Hong Kong film, have also become synonymous with the past. The Internet allows the many cultural forms to appear and occupy people's lives. Not only is seafood, but often appear in the ice room and tea room in Hong Kong films, which have become the standard in the memory filter. People miss them very much, but they seem to be unwilling to patronize again.

At the beginning of 2022, Mirror, a well -known men's group in Hong Kong, made the New Year MV for the Astro Broadcasting Corporation of Malaysia, which became the last film and television production of the treasure seafood.

Cultural landmarks, collective memories, famous film and television punching places ... People miss the disappearing treasure seafood, because it seems to represent "Oriental Culture" in a sense, but this oriental impression is complicated.

Hong Kong historians Zhao Shanxuan once said: "Treasure seafood and seafood tadpoles witnessed an era -the era of Chinese and Western cultural interfaces in Hong Kong. Its architecture, murals, tea sets, and dragon chair seats in it are all traditional Chinese cultural characteristics, but Many of its meals and design, many of them cater to Western tourists' strange impression of the East. "

And Johns Hopkins University's professor Kong Yan posted on the Internet and said: "There are many things worthy of our nostalgia in Hong Kong, but this ship provides high -priced but low -quality foods for ignorant tourists who seek embarrassing exotic atmosphere. "He believes that the existence of treasure seafood is just a" self -orientation ".

Not only satisfied the impression of Western tourists, but also the imagination of the mainlanders. In the 1980s and 1990s, when I saw the gorgeous seafood on the screen, people could automatically correspond to Hong Kong in their minds: its wealth opportunities everywhere are different from the bustling cities in the Mainland, but they are full of oriental elements, traditionally and kind, and with, and with affection, and they are affectionate. The Mainland is still closely connected.

Imagination is always more beautiful than reality, and more importantly, as the times change, these imaginations seem to be replaced by more things. The development of tourism allows people around the world to experience the East in China. The business of treasure seafood is inevitably withered. After longer, even as a cultural attraction, the style of treasure seafood seemed to be a bit outdated.

Four cages are sold for 50 yuan and 160 yuan of fried vegetarian vegetables. Since 2013, high -consumption treasure seafood crickets have gradually experienced business loss. After the epidemic in 2020 began, the tourism and catering industry were impacted. In March 2020, the treasure kingdom announced the suspension of business, and the loss at that time had exceeded 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Whether it is culturally or commercial, the treasures of this era are inevitable.

In the past year, Treasures had contacted more than a dozen companies, hoping to donate treasure seafood to Hong Kong Ocean Park, but all parties said that the operating cost was too high. At the end of May 2022, Treasure Seafood Audi Company could only announce that it moved it away from Hong Kong before its maritime sign.

Canton Statement released by Treasures ｜ The official website of the treasure kingdom

On June 14, Hong Kong was raining lightly. Before the formal departure, the employees moved a round table at the entrance of the treasure, put on burning pigs, fruits, and incense candles to pray for everything smoothly. The whistle along the way cares, and the people on the shore are holding a mobile phone to take a picture.

Reference article:

[1] Hong Kong treasure seafood 香: Those things involved in the doubt of the South China Sea shipwreck | BBC Chinese

[2] Treasure Seafood Farewell to Hong Kong, the final operation of the paintings, the distance flowing away from the distance ｜ Duan Media

[3] The ending point of Hong Kong Treasure Seafoods is not suitable for leaving the country, but sinking ｜ Interface News

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