Showing posts with label Stone Nullah Lane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stone Nullah Lane. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Je l'aimais - Daniel Auteuil (2009) - Blue House, Stone Nullah Lane
Although I have already identified Mathilde's apartment as being located over in North Point, the film makers decided to use the ground floor of the locally famous "Blue House" as the entrance for her flat. This place is a large example of the type of balconied Chinese tenements that were once more prolific in Hong Kong. Many years ago it was also the location for the bone setting clinic run by famous Hung Gar practitioner, Lam Sai Wing - a student of the much fabled Wong Fei Hung (yes, he was a real person). It recently underwent a renovation, although thankfully not in the usual euphemistic HK way of being demolished but a real renovation that saw it repainted and restored. I haven't been this way for many years (not since before this film was made, perhaps) so don't know if the renovation/restoration kept the original wooden stairs and guardrails intact.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Bloodsport - Jean Claude Van Damme (1987) - Lung Mun Restaurant, Wanchai
One of the funny things about the tram ride sequence in this film is that it lasts just a few minutes but manages to take in a whole swathe of HK island - and even involves a change in direction at one point that is only possible in "movieland". However, it's still interesting to see some of the images passing slowly by in the background. Here's an easy one for starters.
Even without the obvious "Stone Nullah Lane" street sign stuck on the outside of the building, HK aficionados will know that this building is the now demolished Lung Mun Restaurant on Johnston Road. It was such a HK institution (though why I have no idea, when I went in the final month of its operation - you know, just so I could say I had been - the dim sum was shite and we had to eat it in an area where the mildew was black and thick on the ceiling and dropping onto the table!! - oh yeah, and the waiter tried to stiff us on the bill).
It was an impressive building all the same and a local landmark that was around since 1948. The site was sold and redeveloped in 2010 and is now serviced apartments (I think). Here is a bit more info courtesy of gwulo.com.
Even without the obvious "Stone Nullah Lane" street sign stuck on the outside of the building, HK aficionados will know that this building is the now demolished Lung Mun Restaurant on Johnston Road. It was such a HK institution (though why I have no idea, when I went in the final month of its operation - you know, just so I could say I had been - the dim sum was shite and we had to eat it in an area where the mildew was black and thick on the ceiling and dropping onto the table!! - oh yeah, and the waiter tried to stiff us on the bill).
It was an impressive building all the same and a local landmark that was around since 1948. The site was sold and redeveloped in 2010 and is now serviced apartments (I think). Here is a bit more info courtesy of gwulo.com.