Showing posts with label Hau Fook Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hau Fook Street. Show all posts

Saturday, October 6, 2018

A Lotus for Miss Quon - Lang Jeffries (1967) - Salisbury Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui

One of the only locations filmed outside of the NT appears to be this brief shot showing the Venus Bar. It's supposedly the club where Miss Quon works and Jason goes to relax. It's also owned by a shady character called Blackie with whom Jason tries to hatch a plan to escape to HK with the diamonds.

In real life the Venus Bar was on Salisbury Avenue in TST (#14) but if you try and look for that name now you won't find any modern reference to it. I'm not sure of the why or when but the street name was changed to Hau Fook Street. It's a small dead end off Carnarvon Road nestled about halfway between Cameron  and Granville Roads. I think the film was shot in 1966 (according to an online interview with Sal Borgese) so I'm not sure if Savoy Mansion (the building occupying the address and built that same year) is the building on screen.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Soldier, Soldier - Robson Green (1992) - Ching Yan Lee Chiu Chow Restaurant sign, Tsim Sha Tsui

Not really a location as such, but a quick grab of a couple of neon signs that we are led to believe are near the location where Tucker's wife goes to have her back street abortion. The back street in question turns out to be 10 Hau Fook Street in Tsim Sha Tsui because one of the neon signs (red one on the right) outside the building is advertising a Chiu Chow restaurant that was still around until just last year.

The Chinese writing on the right reads (from top to bottom): 正仁利 潮州 菜館 - with the two smaller characters referring to the Chiuchow nature of the cuisine. This place is now listed as closed on Open Rice but the most recent review of the food was posted in Feb of 2014. Judging by the low ratings I'm surprised this place lasted so long.