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Jumbo Kingdom

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Tuesday, 27th September 2005

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Docked in the middle of Aberdeen Harbour in Hong Kong, in the style of a sumptuous Chinese palace, is the gigantic floating restaurant Jumbo Kingdom. Opened in 1976, this mammoth eatery can accommodate up to 2,300 people, and the facilities include a ’six-star’ gourmet restaurant, shopping, exhibitions, cafes and a ton of other stuff. However, I read that Jumbo Kingdom no longer actually floats, and is now supported by concrete. Can anyone verify this?

There’s a free ferry which takes you out there, and you can see some of them docked by the side of the restaurant itself (see this photo for comparison).

Jumbo

Some people claim that this is the world’s largest floating restaurant, but the Jumbo Kingdom site makes no such claim, which makes me wonder… What is the world’s largest floating restaurant? And (more importantly) is it in hi-res? ;-)

Many thanks to Leonard Wan for being the only person to submit this!

5 Responses to 'Jumbo Kingdom'

  1. Caguamon says:

    does anybody know WTF is this?

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  2. Alex says:

    Caguamon, you just pasted the link to Jumbo Kingdom… Try again!

  3. Kyle says:

    If you ment this : Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    Then its just a space dock with a ship parked there for boarding….

  4. Hans says:

    This one: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    in the port of Rotterdam is pretty big and coincidentally also a Chinese restaurant. Visible in the top of the scene is the Euromast.

  5. Terence Lau says:

    Jumbo no longer floats – due to the fires that nearly burned it down in the 1970s the HK government outlawed floating restaurants.

    The food there is awful by the way. Tourist crap.

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