Oliver's Story - Ryan O'Neal (1978) - Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen

You may recall that when I was looking at locations for the Spiderman film a couple of years ago I noted that the Jumbo was docked at the quayside in Aberdeen. Well, it was made the same year as Oliver's Story and we can see that the restaurant was indeed docked at the waterfront in this film too. I'm not surprised considering the number of restaurants that appear to be in the harbour. If you look at the top picture you can see the Tai pak, and two more to its right (perhaps the Yue Lei Tai and another?). From the other grabs we can also see the Sea palace was there as well. So maybe the Jumbo was at the quayside simply due to lack of space?

Bons Baisers de Hong Kong - Les Charlots (1975) - Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen

There are a few nice shots of Aberdeen in one of the scenes, including a nice oblique angle looking down on the various floating restaurants. The smaller white one I think is perhaps the lesser-known Yue Lee Tai. For some reason - perhaps because of its lack of flamboyant decoration - this floating restaurant doesn't seem to be very well known. For a close up you can check out this link for a picture from an old business card: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/khp/id/752.

For me this is an interesting scene because of the little bald-headed chap in the bottom picture. Kung Fu fans around the world should recognise him instantly because his name is Yuen Siu-tin. Yuen Siu-tin is the father of (amongst others) Yuen Woo-ping - the famous HK film action choreographer. His dad is perhaps equally well-known in later life for playing Beggar So in various late 70's productions such as Drunken Master. Anyway, here he is without all the Beggar So makeup and costume.