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Aberdeen
Jan.-Dec.
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CNY Free Low Season
Jan.-Dec.
0:00-24:00
CNY Free Adress & Phone South District, Hong Kong Island Transportation One can take Bus No. 7, 3, 7, 37A, 38, 41A, 42, 48, 78, 91, 98, 595, or the special line4A, 4B, 4C, 4S, 5, 35M, 39C, 51, 51A, 51S, 52, 58, 59, 59 Notes
Located on the south coast of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, Aberdeen is a famous scenic spot at home and abroad for its floating village and floating seafood restaurants.
As the central part of the Southern District, Hong Kong, Aberdeen was one of the first places British troops came ashore in 1841. The name ‘Aberdeen’ usually covers the areas of Aberdeen, Wong Chuk Hang and Ap Lei Chau, but it is more often used to refer to the town only. The people here are generally associated with the fishing industry and still live on the water. With the floating village and floating seafood restaurants such as the Jumbo Floating Restaurant, Aberdeen attracts people all over the world.
About the name
Aberdeen, originally called Shek Pai Wan, was named after the 4th Earl of Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Its Chinese name is “Heung Gong Tsai” means “little fragrant harbour” and it was Aberdeen where incense trees from the New Territories used to be transferred for export to other cities in China. The name was later anglicized and Hong Kong became the name by which the whole territory is now known. It is the largest town on Hong Kong Island with a population of about 60,000.
Sampan Ride
Despite its modernization, Aberdeen today still holds its traditional fishing life where thousands of boat people live in floating homes of old-fashioned Boats, Junks, Sampans. It is a popular way to explore the colorful and crowded harbour through a sampan, by which you can have a fantastic experience seeing floating restaurant.
Floating restaurants
Now, two floating restaurants moored next to each other in the harbour, Jumbo Floating Restaurant and Tai Pak Floating Restaurant. Elaborately decorated like a Chinese Imperial Palace with pagodas and gold dragons, Jumbo Floating Restaurant is the largest floating restaurant in the world, which has attracted over 30 million visitors since opening in 1976. It has been featured in several Hong Kong, Hollywood movies including “The Man With The Golden Gun”, “The Protector” “The God of Cookery” and “Infernal Affairs II”. Tai Pak has been featured several movies including “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” in 1955, “The World of Suzie Wong” in 1960 and the “Enter the Dragon” in 1973 . Celebrities like Queen Elizabeth II, Matt Damon, Jude Law and Kate Winslet, Yul Brynner, Elizabeth Taylor and John Wayne have visited here before.
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