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Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Sat Feb 22, 2003 11:12 am ]
Post subject:  Yung Shu Wan - Jade Chief's Bar
Latest name & sign, a few months later, April 2006:

<img src="http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma/Blog/Restaurants/Jade-namecard.jpg" width=550 border=1>

<img src="http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma/Restaurants/Jade-Chief/Jade-Chiefs-Bar-sign-4226.jpg">

New name & logo:, Nov 2005 - April 2006

<img src="http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma-zine/PG/Friday-Afternoon/Ricks-Bar-2249.jpg" width=480>

Former logo, till Nov 2005:

<img src="http://www.lamma.com.hk/forum/images/restaurant/Y2K-logo.jpg" border=1>

Yung Shue Wan Main St (opposite Dan Kwai Fong)

re-opened on Feb 21, 2003,
a new entry in the Best Pub in YSW Poll!
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re-opening
e {L_WROTE}:
island bar reopening on the 21st feb? i never knew it has suspended at any time?

It was just closed for a few days and I was surprised as well when they announced their re-opening recently, keeping the same more-than-3-years-out-of-date name, Y2K.

2 Gwailos have just rented it (not bought) and seem to be more successful in attracting customers than before. I'll check it out soon and get a bit more info to post here.
Author:  e [ Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:43 pm ]
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i only noted that after the re-opening, the previously all-chinese-customers scene just suddenly changes to all gweilos! so i think it must have changed hands into a gweilo owner.
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:56 pm ]
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Maybe mostly friends of the new guys?
Anybody know them and could tell us more about the re-opening? What's different now from before? Same name...
Author:  Norseman [ Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:00 pm ]
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Another fish in an increasingly shrinking pond. Good luck to them though.
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:31 am ]
Post subject:  New name!
New outside brick wall replacing the glass wall, plus a new name:

<img src="http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma-zine/PG/Friday-Afternoon/Ricks-Bar-2249.jpg" width=480>

Anybody know what else has changed besides the name? Any new beers?

Also, what's the name of the dog and who does it belong to? Rick's?
Author:  Alan [ Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:26 am ]
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Pretty damn confusing editing and retitling 2-year old posts. Better to start a completely new thread.
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:54 am ]
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A new topic for the same old place? As far as I can see from the outside, nothing seems to have really changed besides the sign. I'd start a new topic if there'd be all-new management or a real relaunch.

Only the name of this topic has changed to the new name, nothing else at all, so what's "pretty damn confusing"?

Asking the regulars of Rick's Bar:
What's changed, besides the sign?
Author:  Alan [ Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:02 pm ]
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Lamma-Gung {L_WROTE}:
Only the name of this topic has changed to the new name, nothing else at all, so what's "pretty damn confusing"?

The first post, "Sat Feb 22, 2003" which now has the current name and sign.
Author:  Rach [ Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:57 am ]
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The dog on the sign is Rick's beloved dog Big Nose.
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:16 am ]
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Big Nose, indeed!

Is he protecting the bar from wannabe freeloaders and driving away unruly elements late at night?
Author:  Foxy [ Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:05 pm ]
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Rick has gone. Bought the Full Monty.
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:48 pm ]
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Wow, really?
So all the rumours were true, for once?

I had no idea that Rick has such good investors. It was rumoured that the asking price was an incredible, record-breaking $250,000?
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:22 pm ]
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Ricks Bar has been converted into a traditional Chinese "tea restaurant" over the Lunar New Year and now directly competes with places like Man Kee and Nam Wah Yuen, offering HK-style set breakfasts and set meals.

From all the hordes of local tourists over Lunar New Year, this is the first time ever I've seen the place full of people, including the new outside tables.

Talking to Wilson - the new manager, lived for 30 years in London - they'll have a bar at night soon and hope to be ready for the footy world cup - plasma screen in place already - and will do a formal opening before that time.

Only Chinese, hand-written menu posters so far, no printed table menus or even name cards yet. But we've tried breakfast and lunch already:

Breakfast: Quite OK, basically exactly the same choices as Man Kee, but a few $s cheaper.

Lunch: 8 choices of set lunches at around $30, big enough for 2 people. One of the best chicken curries I've had in a long time, really yummy and just spicy enough, but not tongue-burning like Thai Thai's.
No free tea and no Chinese soup included in the set lunch, a major drawback for Lamma-Por and myself.
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:02 pm ]
Post subject:  New name: Jade Chief's Bar
New name:

Jade Chief's Bar

Who is the Jade Chief in Chinese mythology? Maybe some of our local Chinese friends can explain this name to us and why it is suitable for a Cha Chan Tang-style restaurant ???
Author:  Foxy [ Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:24 pm ]
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This place has closed and is up for sale again. Seems doomed to failure, despite the good location.
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:39 pm ]
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Well, it's been for sale for several months now and somebody almost bought it a few weeks ago. But the owner seems to have pulled a bait-and-switch on the buyer, increasing the sales price dramatically at the last minute. The buyer gave up angrily and told many people about it. It might take a very long time to get somebody to stump up the current incredible asking price of something well beyond $160,000, I've heard...
Author:  NewLamma [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Jade Rick's Y2K bar
Does the asking price include Nick and his mangey dogs?
Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:02 am ]
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Well, they didn't manage to sell it at their wanted price, so they reopened it themselves, it seems.

Has anybody tried it since the reopening?

Lamma-Por and I are not so eager about trying it ourselves. The last time we ate there, the lady boss was sitting at the next table, smoking while staring at us, the only customers...

Does the Chinese name mean the same thing as the English one and who's this mysterious Jade Chief? Some figure from Chin. mythology? Maybe the bar owner/proprietor has many expensive jade pieces, fancing him/herself a master/chief of jade?

They even just put up a new sign, including a major typo (see below, the old sign had a different major typo).

Old sign, 2006:
<img src="http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma/Restaurants/Jade-Chief/Jade-Chiefs-Bar-sign-4226.jpg" border=1>

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Author:  Lamma-Gung [ Wed May 06, 2009 11:42 am ]
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We've finally revisited this pretty popular place on Nick's Corner, just opposite the Banyan Bay Cafe, even picked up a name card:

<img src="http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma/Blog/Restaurants/Jade-namecard.jpg" width=550 border=1>

"Traditional Cantonese home-style cooking" was how it was described to me by other guests. Seeing it full on the weekend with young island visitors also demonstrates their low prices, almost every dish advertised on the walls is below $50, with a lot even below $30. On weekdays, it's visited by a lot of local regulars. We spotted fishermen, middle-aged Chinese ladies and a table full of HK Electric blue-collar staff in there when we finally revisited. Lamma-Por had resisted going back there ever after a not-so-positive experience over two years ago.

This time she loved it! A really delicious fried pigeon; tastier, juicier and cheaper at $48 than in ANY other Lamma restaurant we've tried this dish (and yes, this includes the Pigeon Rest. above Hung Shing Yeh). Half a succulent pigeon for me, together with my customary single spoonful of boiled rice and I was satiated and happy.

The second dish, Lamma-Por's choice, were amazingly fat (50+%), thick bacon squares with quickly stir-fried cabbage, still dripping with oil. Absolutely unsuitable for my low-fat diet, I only nibbled on that dish, but Lamma-Por loved it and even took the left-overs home! Other tables were tucking into various Cantonese staples and a big plate piled high with large, yabbie-like seafood.

It's a really small place, only about 5 tables, with basically one cook and one waitress. But it has a family-style feel with soft benches all round, mostly real chairs, not just stools; plus some really gaudy decorations, like so many of these local places. The huge, embroidered stickers of English football clubs above the former bar counter (now the kitchen access) might be a heritage from when this place really was a bar for many years under changing owners/managers, but now it's a bar in name only (Jade Chief's Bar).

They also have a lot of unusual Cantonese dishes at really reasonable prices, many of them not available in other local restaurants at all or only on weekends. Lamma-Por & I will certainly be back soon, without me having to try convincing her for years first. :wink:

Now on to some of the few other places we haven't visited in a little while. We'll try every local restaurant at least once...
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