After we left Rizzo, last seen in Wanchai on the back of a pedicab, somehow he manages to peddle completely around to the other side of the island and stop off at the old Tai Pak Floating Restaurant ferry pier. Now remember this film was made in 1975, a whole year before the newly launched Jumbo would open, and the Tai Pak and the Sea Palace were still the major floating restaurants in Aberdeen Harbour.



These days the small piers where you catch the shuttle ferries over to the Jumbo Kingdom are situated quite close to their destination on the waterfront at Shum Wan Pier Drive. In 1975 the piers were all the way over on the waterfront at Wu Nam Street. The area that used to house the old Tai Pak ferry pier now houses the Aberdeen Bus terminus.
The photo above shows Wu Nam Street as it was in 2009, courtesy of Streetview. The entrance into the bus terminus (behind the low green roof) is the approximate location of where the old Tai Pak pier (and others) used to be located.
Of course, a trip to Aberdeen wouldn't be complete without at least one view of the Tai Pak. In the background you can see the green hillock that houses the Aberdeen Seminary.
In the images below, Rizzo's destination is a floating mahjong den called the "Golden Moon". However, if you can read Chinese you should be able to tell that this structure is in fact some sort of ceremonial hall/temple for the fisherfolk.
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