So Long, Lung Moon

If you head to Wan Chai in December looking for Lung Moon restaurant, don't bother.

It won't be there. The 60-year-old icon on Johnston Road will be torn down to be replaced by yet another residential tower and shopping mall, because Lord knows Hong Kong doesn't have enough of those yet.

When Lung Moon opened it was right at Victoria Harbour and the tram line, but decades of reclamation surrounded it with infrastructure, burying the restaurant and its famous red lanterns and dragon-motif copper gates until it became almost an afterthought. Lung Moon's specialty is charcoal-roasted goose and pork, for which it requires an extra government licence that is no longer being granted.

When it closes the owner will donate the rusted 1960s cash registers to museums and give away interior signs with messages of joy and longevity to senior's homes. The dragon gates, however, will be retained to adorn the new home of Lung Moon when the owner finds a good location. In the meantime, Lung Moon's regulars will have to find another old-style restaurant to call home.

So if you're hankering for some charcoal-roasted goodness, you only have about a month to fix that craving.

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