GIANT FLOATING RESTAURANT, SUFFERING FINANCIAL LOSSES, MYSTERIOUSLY SINKS

Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant – basically a giant four-story barge that was a popular tourist attraction that welcomed celebrities and politicians including Tom Cruise and Queen Elizabeth II – capsized in the South China Sea on Sunday a week after leaving the city for an unannounced destination. The restaurant’s parent company said the floating restaurant encountered poor conditions in the South China Sea Saturday, and the vessel began to tip. Despite efforts to rescue the boat, it capsized, the company said, adding no crew members were injured. The vessel – a landmark for over 40 years – never reopened due to months of Covid restrictions that sparked financial woes as its parent company, Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises, struggled to find a new owner. The company said it was “very saddened by this accident,” noting that the water’s depth of more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) made it challenging to save the vessel.
* “So don’t even try. And especially don’t look for foul play or sabotage, because you certainly won’t find any, who even mentioned sabotage, not us.”
* Come on. Scooby-Doo could solve this mystery even without Shaggy, Freddie, Daphne and Velma.
* I knew Covid made a lot of restaurants go under, but not like this.
* First the owners were underwater with the barge, then the barge was under water.
* Honestly, I have trouble picturing Queen Elizabeth and Tom Cruise ordering Szechuan Chicken and crab wontons among the commoners at a tourist trap Chinese restaurant.