The most eye-catching news last week was that the former "No. 1 restaurant on the sea" Treasure Seafood Restaurant sank in the South China Sea.
At first glance, this name may sound a bit unfamiliar, but when you see the photo, you will definitely sigh: I have never seen this boat before!
is known as the biggest "golden supporting role" in Hong Kong films because of its frequent appearances in classic movies.
In " Infernal Affairs 2" Ni Yongxiao, played by Ng Zhenyu , hoped to clear himself at the banquet, but was arrested before he could eat.
The filming location for this scene was the Jumbo Seafood Restaurant.
Parked at Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter for nearly 46 years, Jumbo Seafood Restaurant has long become a footnote to Hong Kong’s urban legend.
On June 14, when the Jumbo Seafood Restaurant was towed away from Hong Kong by the pilot ship and headed for Southeast Asia, some Hong Kong citizens said: It feels like a relative has left us, and I hope it can come back soon.
However, from a business perspective, letting the captain sleep at the bottom of the sea may be a more cost-effective outcome.
Jumbo Seafood Restaurant is the property of gambling king Stanley Ho.
html In the past 346 years, from "the most prosperous industry of the gambling king's family" to "no one cares about discounts", there are actually traces behind the roller coaster-like changes.
It was built in 1950 and was invested and operated by businessman Yuan Rong and Wang Laoji (not a herbal tea brand) .
Due to a fire before opening, Wong Lao Kat was unable to continue operating. In 1972, it was sold to Stanley Ho and the founder of "New World Development" Zheng Yutong.
▲The original "Taibai Seafood Restaurant"
Gambling king Stanley Ho spent more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars to build the Jumbo Seafood Restaurant into the "Marine Palace". Once it opened in 1976, it became a landmark attraction in Hong Kong.
The English name of Jumbo Seafood Restaurant is "Jumbo", which means "huge". It covers an area of 45,000 square feet and can accommodate 230 diners at the same time.
At night, the lights are brightly lit and very gorgeous.
▲ Zhenbao Seafood Boat consists of three seafood boats including "Taibai Seafood Boat" and "Haijiao Palace". The latter two were acquired by Zhenbao in the 1980s, and together they formed the later " Jumbo Kingdom ". It has always been a landmark attraction in Hong Kong and the largest sea restaurant in the world.
Because it is anchored in the middle of Typhoon Shelter , diners need to take a shuttle boat to board the Jumbo Seafood Restaurant. In the dark night, slowly approaching the brightly lit ship is like having a beautiful and prosperous dream on the sea.
The former treasure seafood restaurant represented the highest hospitality standard in Hong Kong’s golden age.
At that time, Queen Elizabeth visited Hong Kong and arranged to board this big ship.
"Mission: Impossible 2" came to Hong Kong to promote, Chow Yun-fat treated Tom Cruise as a landlord, and invited Tom Cruise to eat seafood, also at Jumbo Seafood Restaurant.
The Gambling King’s birthday party is held every year at Jumbo’s banquet hall, and many birthday celebration photos have been left behind.
▲ On Stanley Ho’s 84th birthday in 2005, the third wife Chen Wanzhen held 15 tables at the Jumbo Seafood Banquet to celebrate his birthday
This is also the "golden backdrop" for many classic Hong Kong films.
The one that most evokes everyone's memory must be " The God of Cookery " by Stephen Chow .
In the "28th Super God of Cookery Contest", Stephen Chow made the dish " that will make you cry after eating it".
is the same as " pissing cow balls ". This is probably a common memory of the audience born in the 80s and 90s.
Gu Dezhao also posted a group photo of the "God of Cookery" crew a few days ago, and posted:
"The treasure is no longer...and Gor is no more..."
Not only "The God of Cookery", 007, Bruce Lee series of movies, and even Godzilla was filmed here.
It can be found in many big scenes.
The design theme of the entire ship is also very obvious, which is: dragon.
There are two giant golden dragon wood carvings at the entrance. The interior is designed with inspiration from ancient palaces. They are "Dragon Tower", "Feng Pavilion", " Jinluan Palace " and " Taihe Palace ". It took 2 years to imitate them. A dragon chair.
There is a giant seafood pool called "Guanyishui Pavilion" in the boat, which raises more than 60 kinds of seafood, giving you an immersive experience of "catch and eat now".
▲ Xue Jiayan, a judge in "The God of Cookery", was sitting on a dragon chair to comment on the dishes.
Entering the banquet hall, dragon elements were everywhere.
Next to the boat at the main entrance, nine small golden faucets will spit out water jets at the same time, shooting at a dragon ball in the center, which is called "Nine Dragon Spit Pearls"
Here you can eat the same "Sadly Ecstasy Rice" as in "The God of Cookery" ", you can also try another signature dish "Flame Drunken Fairy Shrimp".
The chef will cook in front of the diners, and many restaurants are now following suit.
Find a famous ship and renovate it into a high-end maritime restaurant that has been docked for a long time. This is a configuration found in many coastal cities around the world.
I have experienced this feeling of "pretending to be sailing" before in Qingdao , Shenzhen and Singapore .
▲Singapore Clarke Quay & Shenzhen Shekou Pier
When the "Sea Palace" built with heavy investment was the most popular, the shore was always full of cars. It is said that even the ferryman who takes customers on board can earn a monthly income of 20,000 Hong Kong dollars.
If you want to have a meal on the gambling king's territory, the price is not cheap.
A basket of 4 siomai costs 50 yuan, a stir-fried vegetable dish costs 160 yuan, broccoli costs 290 yuan, and seafood costs more than 500 yuan per person.
"Jewel" has gradually become an existence that locals do not frequent often. They usually only book a few tables on big days or when they need to support the scene to show their identity.
Since 2003, Hong Kong has been open to free travel. The Jumbo Industry was taken over by Ho Hong-sun's son Stanley Ho, hoping to change the old image of Jumbo Seafood Restaurant.
In order to attract young people, Jumbo Restaurant was decorated more gorgeously, but it still followed the high-end restaurant route of changing the soup without changing the dressing.
High-priced dishes that have long been below expectations cannot always impress people through emotion.
has been a winning formula for an era, but there is no guarantee that it will always be supported by everyone. If
does not change, it means being eliminated.
"God of Cookery" star Tian Qiwen once joked that there are only 8 types of dim sum left in Jumbo Fang, so there are not many choices.
At the same time, in order to maintain the maritime license, the annual basic inspection, renovation and maintenance costs are as high as millions of Hong Kong dollars. The high cost of operation and daily maintenance of
makes it very difficult to develop.
The Cape Palace in the "Treasure Kingdom" was sold to Philippines in 1999. In 2011, due to poor management, it was transported to Qingdao for berth and has not been put into operation until now.
Not long after the epidemic began, Aberdeen Restaurant Group announced its closure and announced that since 2013, Jumbo’s cumulative losses have exceeded HK$100 million.
▲The Aberdeen Restaurant Group found more than a dozen companies to work together to save the treasure, but they were all rejected due to high operating costs.
Hong Kong Ocean Park once tried to take over and transform the treasure into a cultural tourist attraction, but it rejected the donation at the end of last year. , because "no berths and third-party operating companies were found."
In the end, the next Jumbo Seafood Restaurant could not be found. On June 14, the tugboat left Hong Kong and headed to Cambodia. Due to excessive wind and waves, it Sunk near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
When this big ship really sank to the bottom of the sea, everyone discovered: It turns out that there is no permanently profitable project. Once the "most profitable asset", if it fails to adapt to the times, it will definitely be beaten to death on the beach by the waves behind it.
What is more important than fighting for property is the mind.
For Hong Kong citizens, [Jumbo Seafood Restaurant] is a love knot;
For the gambling kings, it is more like a metaphor, which is strung together like a grass snake and a gray thread. The rise and fall of a gambling empire.
Stanley Ho passed away on May 26, 2020, at the age of 98. His second wife, Lan Qiongying, passed away on the 11th of last month. Within a few days, the Jumbo Seafood Boat sank.
As the previous generation passes away one after another and the family industry rises and falls, the wealth created by the "rich generation" Stanley Ho at the peak of his abilities is faced with the problem of intergenerational inheritance.
Because the business landscape is too large and there are so many women in the four houses of the gambling king, it is impossible for everyone to get high-quality assets.
No matter how top-notch a wealthy family is, it is inevitable that there will be people at the helm and those who are holding back.
Among them, the contrast between He Chaoqiong, the eldest daughter of the second wife, and He Chaolian, the youngest daughter of the third wife, is the strongest.
He Chaolian, who has recently been interviewed one after another for "crying poverty", revealed that the property she was assigned to was " Fisherman's Wharf ", which was losing money year by year.
The fate of "Fisherman's Wharf" is exactly the same as that of Jumbo Seafood Restaurant.
has the glory of its peak period: it is the first theme park in Macau, China and a shopping mall that imitates European and American Fisherman's Wharf.
was invested and built by Stanley Ho and Zhou Jinhui, with a total investment of approximately MOP .85 billion. It took 5 years of preparation and construction.
Compared with the gaming business, Fisherman’s Wharf has stronger cultural and artistic attributes. It covers an area of 100,000 square meters and covers a series of commercial profit-making projects such as hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, and entertainment.
On the opening day, more than 40,000 people rushed to see this new "landmark" of Macau. In the words of local media, the crowds almost "overwhelmed Fisherman's Wharf and surrounding roads"
However, due to poor management in the later period, As well as the difficult three years of the epidemic, the current Fisherman's Wharf is very depressed.
After the epidemic, the number of tourists dropped sharply, and now it has become a dispensable free photo-taking place with almost no profitable projects.
▲ Fisherman’s Wharf taken in 2020 & 2022
He Chaolian showed everyone her Fisherman’s Wharf. The tourist resort that used to be bustling with people coming and going has now become deserted.
As the youngest daughter of a three-bedroom family of gambling kings, after taking over this "mess", the girl obviously couldn't use her own ability to make use of this asset, so she couldn't help but expose herself.
This approach of a wealthy daughter crying to the public about her poverty is obviously not very clever and embarrassing.
casually glanced at her outfit for this interview, and just wanted to say to this wealthy lady: A really poor person will not wear a T-shirt worth 1,800 yuan with sneakers worth 5,000 yuan.
▲T-shirt & sneakers: off- white
Even if all the feelings she said were true, the "why not eat minced meat" mood has reached its peak.
It is really difficult for ordinary people to relate to you. A daughter who used to commute by private jet every day cries in front of you and tells you how hard her life is.
He Chaolian, who was originally known as the "Gambling King's Most Beautiful Daughter" because of her beauty, has also become the latest "green tea" spokesperson...
The assets of the family are often not determined. Whether it is of high quality or inferior quality still depends on whose hands it falls into, as well as the mind and vision of the heir.
The eldest sister of the second room, He Chaoqiong, encountered the same challenges as He Chaolian when she was young.
He Chaoqiong once gave an interview, and the title was: Things my father didn’t teach me.
not only talked about the discrepancy between the public impression and her own, but also recalled the side effects that her status as "the daughter of a gambling king" had brought to her.
all express the unexpected obstacles that come with being members of a top wealthy family. The mental journeys of the elder sister and the younger sister are exactly the same.
But everyone will not feel that He Chaoqiong is doing poorly at all. Instead, they will feel a sense of motivation that "people who are richer than me work harder than me."
For example, when faced with the same situation of being affected by identity, being deliberately raised in price, or being looked down upon, He Chaoqiong’s idea is:
Since this is the case, I must show even greater ability and sincerity.
This is to solve the problem from the perspective of improving one's own strength.
But He Chaolian can only blame herself and cry about why the price is still so high even after negotiating and communicating in person.
This is because you are bound by the current difficulties before you even come into contact with it.
So one is that he has accomplished things and is sharing his experience along the way; the other is that things have not been done very well, so he first portrays himself as a pitiful person, not grateful for what he has received, but complains a lot. When
dealt with the public opinion of her boyfriend Dou Xiao's new drama, it was the same miserable operation. It is reasonable for everyone not to recognize it.
Because the mentality of most people is actually Mu Qiang. It is always better to talk after doing things to the extreme than to blame them before making any achievements.
He Chaolian, who was born in 1991 and is now 31 years old, cried in front of the camera and complained that the property his father left him was not good enough.
He Chaoqiong, who was the same age back then, was already leading the company out of the predicament.
In 1995, He Chaoqiong was appointed in the face of danger and was recalled as a director of Shun Tak Group . His main job was to clean up the mess and save Shun Tak Shipping.
She was only 33 years old that year, and age was no excuse for inability.
Faced with the increasingly rigid Xin De, she relied on the connections left by her ex-husband, the shipping king, to bypass her father and management and seek cooperation directly with business partners.
Relying on flexibility and change, He Chaoqiong finally saved Xin Tak, which seemed to be a low-quality asset at the time, and built it into a market value of tens of billions.
When Macau opened its gambling license in 2002, Stanley Ho lost his monopoly on the gaming industry, and his Shun Tak and SJM subsidiaries gradually declined in the local gaming market share.
In order to change the attributes of a single gambling, Ho Chaoqiong, who has a long-term vision, suggested to his father: build MGM Grand in a high-end and artistic direction.
This step is also the key for He Chaoqiong to beautify and upgrade the family business as a whole. She has long said: The era of making quick money through gambling will eventually end, and the right path must be to develop more formal industries.
Ho Chao-king’s MGM Grand later became a representative of Macau’s resort hotel culture. Stanley Ho publicly stated that “MGM is the most beautiful” among his hotels.
She herself became the richest woman in Hong Kong, China in 2018. She no longer needs to add the title "The Gambling King's Daughter" before her name.
was born in a wealthy and big family. This halo is brought about by his birth. To put it bluntly, it is because of the glory of his father's generation.
really regards the family business as closely related to her, and the big sister who suffers from both losses and prosperity must have a different perspective on thinking about the problem than the little princess who just sits back and enjoys the gains.
Who is the qualified heir? The answer is self-evident.
Whether it is Xin Tak, SJM, or Jumbo Seafood Restaurant, they were all born when the gambling king was in his prime. Hong Kong and Macao in the colonial era were still "a paradise for adventurers." Stanley Ho made his fortune with just 10 yuan and eventually became the "King of Gambling." It can be regarded as a myth of wealth that he built from scratch in a specific era and under a specific environment.
There is a saying that "you can't get rich until three generations", which is often because something went wrong with the second generation.
The Jumbo Seafood Boat has sunk, and the era of sensuality is gone. However, the other industries of the gambling king family can still look back and develop healthily after He Chaoqiong keeps pace with the times and works hard to wash away the imprint of the word "gambling". room.
However, a project like Fisherman's Wharf is very likely to fall into the hands of He Chaolian and become a tasteless waste that is a pity to throw away...
It is also possible that the age difference between the two sisters is huge, and the little princess He Chaolian has been too protected since she was a child. Well, without going through the narrow escape of starting a business, the top asset in the eyes of others was just a gift from her father that she could easily get. In addition to taking it for granted, I also feel a little bit disgusted: Why is it that what I get is not ideal and good enough?
This is a bit like standing and talking without back pain.
Their father had never taught them how to do business, and she had no talent for doing business. Her boyfriend Dou Xiao was extremely ambitious, so she might as well spend less time online, less quarrels with fans, break the sectarian stereotypes, and learn from her elder sister.
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