The Dragon Inn (容龍別墅), 19.5 milestone, Castle Peak Road [1939-1989]

Submitted by tngan on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 13:02
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Date closed / demolished
(Day & Month are approximate.)

The tag is just an approximate location.  I have not been to that location for nearly forty years so it practically a blank to me.

T

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Two Friends by the Fountain c.1954
1954
1950s Dragon Inn, 19-mile, Castle Peak Rd
1950s
The Dragon Inn
1950s
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T, thanks for finding the location.

Here's a photo we've been sent, showing the Dragon Inn in the 1950s:

1950s Dragon Inn, 19-mile, Castle Peak Rd

From the Dragon Inn's website, it looks as though the same building is still there today.

The 1939 Dragon Inn Villa buildings were demolished in 1989, and the current Dragon Inn Restaurant and bar was built on the same site.

The restaurant is still owned and managed by Luk Hoi Tong Co. Ltd. (registered 1926), which also owns the Luk Kwok Hotel in Wanchai, the Nathan Hotel in Jordan, and owned the former Queen's Theatre in both its incarnations (and now owns the "LHT" retail/office building on that site, 31 Queen's Road Central).
 

I distinctly remember visiting and dining here as a child in the early 1980s and visiting the current restaurant once in the 1990s. The current restaurant is a shadow of the previous one without the playground and zoo. 

Apparently my grandmother went to school with the wife of (one of the) owner(s), so we would get extra special service and be treated like VIPs. During my lady visit in the 1990s, my grandmother ran into her old classmate, that's how I know.

I remember that we used to purchase our seafood from the shops at the nearby pier, before driving to the restaurant. Not sure if they are still there, and whether that practice is still permitted nowadays?    

Hi There,

The pier where fishing boats sell their catch had been well developed into a line of stores on Sam Shing Street as shown in the placement map above. There may still be illegal stalls eracted by fishermen also selling their catch on the promenade next to the market on weekends.

T

ps     The street view quoted above was dated 2011, sort of outdaed.  You can see the Google car drove onto the breakwater.  The breakwater (promenade) is now blocked for vehicle traffice and had become sort of public park with sitting area.   But if you skip to the very end of the breakwater in street view, it was updated by 2016, probably with the backpack version of the camera.  The breakwater is now with floor tiles.