Jumbo Kingdom
Tuesday, 27th September 2005 by Alex Turnbull
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).
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!
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does anybody know WTF is this?
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Caguamon, you just pasted the link to Jumbo Kingdom… Try again!
If you ment this : View Placemark
Then its just a space dock with a ship parked there for boarding….
This one: View Placemark
in the port of Rotterdam is pretty big and coincidentally also a Chinese restaurant. Visible in the top of the scene is the Euromast.
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.