Marc
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Hong Kong Memories
Any of you Old Salts remember the Jumbo floating restaurant in Hong Kong?
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chippy
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I certainly do. It's bad enough to go out of business but then capsize
[Edited on 6-21-2022 by chippy]
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David K
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Yes, when I was there (Aberdeen Harbor), there were two floating restaurants. I think we ate at the one called Tai Pak? Famous for preparing the
freshest sea food... that you pointed to as they swam in tanks.
This was in 1970.
You got to the restaurant, from the dock, by a rowboat piloted by an old woman using a single long oar out the back end.
Those were my memories at age twelve!
Here they are in a 1967 photo:
[Edited on 6-21-2022 by David K]
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Howard
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It was just a few years ago that we had the Drunken Shrimp where they put the live shrimp in a heated alcohol. I swear I could her those shrimp
scream.
I wonder how much it was insured for when it mysteriously sank?
[Edited on 6-21-2022 by Howard]
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TMW
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I remember Hong Kong well from the USS Kitty Hawk Feb. 1966 and Feb. 1967. The floating restaurants had delicious food and the bars had pretty women.
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baja Steve
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I was also on the Kitty Hawk and renumber It welll. I was a flight deck hot suite man
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TMW
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My 1st cruise I work on the hanger deck part of a check crew team on the RA5C aircraft. 2nd cruise I work the flight deck, same aircraft.
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My first time was with the USN too. On CVA34 oriskany.
I was also there at least once a month for 22 years prior to retirement for work.
The " new York of Asia" love that place.
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Lee
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Don't recall why the USS Ogden LPD-5 was in Hong Kong in '65 but remember wandering around, took a ferry to Kowloon, red light district. Eye opener
for an 18 y.o.
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BajaBlanca
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I have never been there but would love to go!
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Keep the hope alive!
It might not be over after all.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mystery-deepens-over-fa...
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
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AKgringo
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"Has not been profitable since 2013"
I think it is over!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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