The second recently recognised location to add to the Chinese Box collection is the "love hotel" that Vivian and John go to after getting together at Club BBoss. As they wander into the building you can see the name of the "Romantic Hotel" on the entrance. This was a real love hotel venue on Kent Road in Kowloon Tong that has since closed down.
When I moved to Kowloon in 2012 the hotel was still in business, but over several months in 2013 (see photos below) it was closed and remodelled into a tacky wedding venue called "My Palace". The finished structure (see bottom image courtesy of Google Streetview) reminds me of one of those old churches in the spaghetti westerns.
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