消失中的香港 系列 Disappearing Hong Kong Culture
珍寶海鮮坊 Jumbo Floating Restaurant
 
Illustration by Kate WaterWood
2023
 
珍寶王國（英語：Jumbo Kingdom）是一組位於香港香港島南區黃竹坑深灣已結業的水上餐廳，由並排停泊的兩艘著名海上畫舫珍寶海鮮舫（英語：Jumbo Floating Restaurant）及太白海鮮舫（英語：Tai Pak Floating Restaurant）組成（昔日還包括海角皇宮，英語：Sea Palace Floating Restaurant），是香港南區過去的著名地標，有「世界上最大的海上食府」之稱。
 
珍寶王國曾經由香港上市公司新濠國際發展有限公司（港交所：0200）旗下的香港仔飲食集團負責管理，因為2019冠狀病毒病疫情傳入香港，停泊在深灣的兩艘海鮮舫自2020年3月起停業，其中體積較大的珍寶海鮮舫於2020年11月被捐贈予海洋公園，海洋公園在2021年底通知，未能找到合適的第三方機構營運，不能落實施政報告之捐贈計劃。2022年6月海事牌照到期，決定移離香港。於6月14日啟航離港，至6月18日下午，行駛至南海西沙群島附近水域時，遇上風浪，船身入水開始傾側，船方稱海鮮舫於6月19日全面入水沉沒於南海。
太白海鮮舫目前仍停泊在港，並在2023年2月宣佈修復計劃，預計於2024年第三季復業
 
來源：Wiki
 
Jumbo Kingdom is a group of water-based restaurants located in Deep Water Bay, Wong Chuk Hang, Southern District, Hong Kong Island, consisting of two famous floating restaurants - Jumbo Floating Restaurant and Tai Pak Floating Restaurant (formerly also including Sea Palace Floating Restaurant), which are moored side by side. It was a famous landmark in the Southern District of Hong Kong, known as the "world's largest floating restaurant".
Jumbo Kingdom was previously managed by Tai Pak Floating Restaurant Group, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed company SJM Holdings (HKEX: 0200). Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Hong Kong in 2019, the two seafood boats have been closed since March 2020. The larger Jumbo Floating Restaurant was donated to Ocean Park in November 2020, but in late 2021, Ocean Park announced that it could not find a suitable third-party operator to implement the donation plan as outlined in the policy address. In June 2022, Jumbo Kingdom's marine license expired, and it was decided to move the restaurant out of Hong Kong. On June 14, it set sail and headed towards the South China Sea. However, on June 18, the boat encountered strong winds and waves and started to tilt, and on June 19, Jumbo Kingdom completely sank in the waters near the Xisha Islands.
Tai Pak Floating Restaurant is currently still moored in Hong Kong and announced a restoration plan in February 2023. It is expected to reopen in the third quarter of 2024.