Anyone who has been reading this blog for any length of time knows that I also like to sometimes include "moving locations". In this case it's the famous "Duk Ling" tourist junk that was once a very common sight moving up and down the harbour. When I first moved to Hong Kong in 2006, I was told that the boat was owned by a guy (Pierric Couderc) who was paid a large amount of money by the Government to just sail it up and down the harbour everyday so that people could take photos of it. It was then later, up to 2014, used a few days a week to provide harbour tours until it sadly sunk in Aberdeen Harbour during a particularly nasty typhoon that same year. Don't worry, it was sold, raised from the depths, restored and relaunched the following year.
We have actually seen it before on the blog because I featured it nearly 10 years ago when I was covering
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Long term reader and friend, Gweilo8888, has a very informative comment on that post which details a it more about the boat's background, so please click the link and have a read.
In this film, it is owned by Mr Wong, the enigmatic tour guide (played by veteran Chinese actor, Tseng Chang) who turns out to be a master of Chinese medicine as well as a kung fu master charged with protecting the "Tiger" (yeah, another part of the overly complicated plot).
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