Where Bruce Lee practiced the surface, a shrine rises to the old Hong Kong

At its peak in the fifties and sixties of the last century, the Lung Wah Hotel, a Spanish revival villa, presented a abstaining shelter of the bustle of the city’s life, near Kove and surrounded by parks in the new northern Hong Kong territories.

The winding stairs, surrounded by red lanterns, led to a sprawling Chinese garden. On the summer weekends, people gathered for MAHJONG games under a suite where children played nearby in sand boxes and swinging. The films were filmed once and Bruce Lee, her most famous sponsor, practiced martial arts on their surface.

In contracts that followed, the hotel stopped renting rooms because the new fire icons will require their promotion. The surrounding rice fields have been developed into middle -class housing. The restaurant is still out of its famous grilled bathroom, but he struggled to fill the dining rooms of wood since its 500 -point parking was requested to a new police station in the 1970s.

Now, the process has been given an opportunity to hold a new life contract – by relying on the past. The unused Tehousesse has been reshaped at Hong Kong Radiness, a practical museum that seeks to re -create vibrant lifestyles in the city while moving from the post -war factory city producing clothes, electronics and plastic to a sparkling financial center linking East and West.

John Woo, a graphic designer and a well -known local complex that sponsored the space, said he wanted to look like a collection of films, where each corner had a coherent color painting.

He said that his goal is to revive the memories of older visitors with the inspiration of young generations as well. When doing tours, it is often drawn attention to the unique details, encouraging visitors to feel durability from wood, for example. “Only then these things can get a second life,” he said in an interview.

Dusty Antique stores have always been a key player in the city, but there is a new group of companies-photo studios, restaurants and shops inspired by ancient, which many are run by the owners of Gen-Z and Millennial-trying to fast for beauty and daily things from the last past, before the former British returned to Chinese control in 1997.

Many population in the eighties of the last century is a golden era for Hong Kong culture, when films, TV shows and music known as Cantopop, which Song in Kantonian, was very popular at home and abroad. The success of his entertainment scene was a point of pride, linked to the identity of the city as the highest and place for the opportunity for those who have dreams, as well as the courage and intelligence to follow it. But imports from the main mainland of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan led to the fading culture of pop in Hong Kong in contracts that followed.

The wave of nostalgia coincided with the efforts made by the Chinese government to redefine the identity of Hong Kong in the aftermath of the government, which led to a Campaign by Beijing In 2020 and the imposition of the National Security Law. Since then, the authorities have History museums arguing and Re -writing textbooks To adhere to Beijing’s official listing.

“Our generation has imaginations about the past,” said Kony Lee, the 30 -year -old interior designer who visited the museum in the last afternoon. “Things change very quickly, but in these spaces, we can find an escape in the alleged days of glory and search for our roots.”

To take advantage of the public interest in the recent past, the city’s tourism council organized an exhibition linked to the strike last year.Breaks of warriors: a traveler in“Action Martial Arts in the 1980s Hong Kong. Visitors Overwhelm In the aesthetic film, “including a barber salon, tea clinic and bone position clinic.

In Hong Kong Raders, the guests are free to search for a cabinet full of games, games and family photo albums. The herbal landmark office includes antique extracts, a small store with a unicox box, boxes full of soda bottles and old ice cream basins. One room re -creates an interesting working class with a Maahjong table, a singer stitching machine and a bed with two brackets.

Mr. Wu, 55, has begun to collect Japanese and Western things when he was young, but in recent years he focused on Hong Kong designs because he believed it reflects the history of the city and its unique personality. He is known for his collection of designs Henry SteinerAustrian whose work has been identified some of the most famous brands in Hong Kong, such as the HSBC logo.

In 2023, Mr. Wu collaborated with two other enthusiasts who met him online – Pan Tse, a maintenance worker, and Tiger NG, a logistical worker with a passion for many pieces that were abandoned – to help the elderly people move from an old residential property that was to be demolished.

Men were allowed to keep furniture and souvenirs of about 30 families in their storage units, promising to show the public one day. They tried to find a space in an industrial building to create a small mosaic, but the rents were high.

The news of their volunteer work spread, and in 2024, the hotel owner, Mary Chung, continued to help sort the huge registration equipment, tools and books that accumulated in the property.

She was built in the thirties of the twentieth century, her family Holidays Even the Japanese army requested during World War II. Chungs turned into a small hotel in 1951, with less than ten rooms. Since it was a short drive away from the academic institution that has become the Chinese University in Hong Kong, it is often rooms from the branch of the people studying there, including the fighting artist Jane Young.

There were live poetry and music readings, even a recorded studio used by the Cantonian opera siches. Film sets were allowed to shoot there – with Proviso which was also recorded by actors. (Bruce Lee remained while filming his 1971 movie, “The Big Boss”, also known as “Fists of Fury”.

But the works diminished with the development of the region to become a densely populated suburb, Loss of its rural character. The arrival became more difficult after the government seized the neighboring lands to obtain an electric railway.

The hotel stopped working in 1985, but the restaurant continued to go with mostly local customers, and dining rooms are decorated with black and white stars and business stickers. During the roaming epidemic, it was almost folded and Ms. Chung was forced to reduce 200 employees to a handful.

Last year, she reached a deal with the Mr. Wu Group, which for several months has cleared Teahouse, and moved her chaos to other rooms in the hotel. The cars were unable to stop outside the hotel, so they delivered their friends and family to help with the desires of the infantry and the highest zigzag steps.

Since its opening last fall, Hong Kong Radnes has become the destination of a famous field trip for both schools and higher groups.

On the last day, dozens of visitors with silver hair rotate at the Mahjong table, as the tiles were criticized on the solid wood table with taste. Some wandered around the ground, remembering visits in their youth, when the restaurant accused only $ 4 from Hong Kong (about 50 cents) to obtain a plate of signing dove (now $ 12). Some even stormed the Kantonian opera as they remember live shows.

You are always looking for new ways to attract visitors, Mrs. Chung has thought about showing more old elements in the hotel in Teahouse in the park, near jackets carrying three peacocks.

She said in an interview.