The hotel was situated in building 35, 36, 37 Connaught Road Central. The owner was Kackuzo Uysetsuki, a Japanese.
In 1908, he applied for an Adjunct License for the Sei Foo Row Hotel, which was granted.
The license was renewed in October 1909; in the Hong Kong Daily Press 1909-10-23 it is referred to that he had held the license for 2 years already. This implies that the hotel likely opened in 1907. The license was renewed again in 1910.
In 1911, K. Uysetsuki applied for a full license. The Hong Kong Daily Press 1911-11-09 refers:
Licensing Session November 1911.
[Excerpts]
In the application by K. Uyetsuki for a publican’s licence for the Tokyo Hotel, Mr. G.K. Hall Brutton (of Messrs. Brutton & Hett) appeared for the applicant. He informed the Justices that last year an adjunct licence has been granted to Mr. Uyetsuki in respect of the Sei Foo Row Hotel. Since that date the Tokyo Hotel, which was just across the road, had been built, and the applicant now desired a publican’s licence for that hotel. The sureties for him were the manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank, the manager of the Tokyo Kisen Kaisha and Mr. Pang On Wing, who was the owner of the premises.
[…]
Mr. Hooper [member of the licensing board]— You have an adjunct licence at present?
Mr. Brutton—Yes.
For a house on the other side of the street? — Yes.
Do you propose to give up that? No. We propose retaining it as an annex to the Tokyo Hotel. It is proposed to have a public bar on the ground floor of the new building.
[…]
The Board, after considering the application in camera, refused a publican's, but granted an adjunct licence.
From that we learn that Sei Foo Row Hotel still existed after 1911, but lost its name and became an annex to the Tokyo Hotel.
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