Ship Street in Wan Chai on the 18th business "Yuanyang Hotel," a local main Motor capacitor characteristics of nostalgia cuisine, the Chairman Mr Barry Cheung Chun-tasting turnip cakes Zan applause after the shock, restaurant owner Xu Huanmeikaiwenxiao. (Source: Ta Kung Pao)

-- February 26 - According to Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao reported that the construction Motor capacitor company owner from the family ancestral home, to shake body styles nostalgia Restaurant "Yuanyang Hotel," a local main characteristics of nostalgia cuisine itself is two historical buildings of the 18th Ship Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong since the establishment of the Urban Renewal Authority, is actually the first successful conservation projects activation.

Restaurant wife Xu Yuan said that the Chinese and Western architectural style combines many of the old buildings "was love at first sight", although local small business difficult, but also "ignored everything," Motor capacitor nearly 40,000 yuan monthly rent down.
 
 
 


Ship Street on the 18th formerly a source of construction companies TSE family Motor capacitor ancestral home, a "cottage Habitat" to live for several generations, the buildings in the late 1930s, the 19th century general is the representative of residential patterns.

URA 2002 acquisition, commitment to the preservation of the entire family TSE buildings, including mounted on the external wall of the "source of a construction company" signs. Conservation renovation work started in 2005, bricks from the house, staircases Shuimo finishes, wood handrails packet brass head, and the external walls of buildings Bizhu, flowers line the walls, all preserved.

Chairman of the URA Zhang Yuan on the 25th, said the department a total gross floor area of more than 1,500 square feet, conservation project cost does not include construction of lifts and fire facilities, has spent more than 2 million yuan. Xu Yuan rented wife, spent 1 million yuan renovation.

But many of activation would like to visit the historic buildings, "entry fee" many private kitchens basic menu Yuanyang Hotel charges 560 yuan each. Xu Yuan said that although the three-storey building, but the ground floor and the third floor for a total of three Weizhuo enough, the hospitality industry now test Shuke, the weekend set the table has been fixed to the end of March.

Restaurant cook with fresh organic material characteristics of the Hong Kong Chinese cuisine, commonly known as "Soy Food," dishes including fried soft lemon chicken, roasted pigeon West juice, made from  Motor capacitor
stone ingredients such as turnip cakes.