Floating Restaurant
by Blair Wainman
Title
Floating Restaurant
Artist
Blair Wainman
Medium
Photograph - Print Photography
Description
Shatin’s ‘floating’ restaurant was built to replace the original floating restaurant moored a little further down the channel. The original was removed when the Shatin Sea (as it was then called) was reclaimed to form the current Shing Mun River channel and to provide land for all the Govt housing estates. I guess someone had the bright idea of creating a replacement that harked back to its former glory, but what they did was use pour concrete to form a sort of floating restaurant shape fixed to the riverbed. I guess the illusion is effective for those not in the know, but it's a big shame they couldn't have had a proper floating restaurant again. To me it just speaks volume about the level of thinking here - why have the real thing when you have a fake thing made of concrete. On an aside, the restaurant isn't too bad, it's currently run by a chain called Star Seafood who run a chain of large-but-cheap dim sum restaurants around the territory..
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August 26th, 2018
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