District 18 News
Author: Mo Jiawen
2020-12-05 08:00
Last update date: 2020-12-05 08:00
The Sino-US trade war has extended Hong Kong, and even the "made in hk" label will be delisted. Who would have thought that many fast food brands in the United States once started in Hong Kong? Eighty-year-old Hong Kong collectors held a nostalgic fast food exhibition at the ground shop in Sham Shui Po , Exhibiting more than a hundred kinds of fast-food boutiques from the 1970s to the 1990s, including the disappearance of the strange mouse book cake paradise toy, as well as the Hong Kong-made uncle McDonald’s and the Big Mac sheriff. Hope the public will reminisce about the once blooming flowers Of Hong Kong.
"𠵱An uncle McDonald's made in Hong Kong in 1978, my age is older than me!" A kang, a 34-year-old collector, picked up an uncle McDonald's doll about 40 cm tall in the window of a nostalgic fast food exhibition on Nan Cheong Street, Sham Shui Po, and flipped through it Read the label on the back of the case carefully. Among the more than 100 collections, the item is a small number of McDonald's souvenirs made in Hong Kong and shipped back to the United States.
"This was an era in which the toy industry in Hong Kong was developed. Most of them were made in Hong Kong. There were only Big Mac Sheriffs made in Hong Kong in the 1970s."
Akang lists the sources and ages of various collections like many treasures. Just like most children back then, he bought a Happy Paradise and got toys after meals and fell in love with him ever since.
"I was three years old, and my grandma took me to McDonald's every afternoon for tea and dinner... Until my first summer job, I went to Hades to make fried chicken... Until I was able, I slowly lost my life. Chu Qi’s toys are exposed again."
McDonald's sets up rocking boards for children to play
He described the collection of fast food boutiques as a kind of magic. Once you fall in love with it, it is like eating a hamburger. You can’t extricate yourself from it. You can buy toys from ordinary meals and money, and even used the facilities in Hong Kong that year. All of them are the most expensive. Among the collections, there is nothing more than the 80-year-old McDonald’s amusement equipment. "(Old McDonald’s) will have a large rocking stool, which will follow the shape of the food. This is a fish fillet bag. The children have front and back joints to sit on. , Zhongyou, there is a shaking board, one by one on each side (shaking)."
Akon lamented that Hong Kong’s McDonald’s policy is to dismantle the old store. All items are rather to be dismantled and discarded and never allowed to fall into the hands of outsiders. All of its collections are shipped to Hong Kong after being auctioned off by the United States.
"𠵱The hamburger stool is most collectors want to own. The shape is too cute. It is very difficult to transport the hamburger back, and it will take more than ten thousand mosquitoes."
Akon said that the collections of McDonald's facilities must be purchased from foreign countries and then shipped to Hong Kong by air.
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He also pointed out that a collector friend happened to have a McDonald's branch closed down in his early years, and the decoration workers took out the M-shaped light board and intended to be discarded as garbage. Fortunately, the friend took the rescue away, otherwise it was sent to the landfill.
McDonald's in those years:
American fast food promotion, play and eat
Another fast food chain that was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people at the time, and there was a surprising mouse pizza restaurant. "I remember there was a surprising mouse pizza restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui East. Its attractive method is a game park theme, there are motor games, and you can play all the way. The kids ate pizza all the way.” But when he was sensible, surprisingly mice had already withdrawn from Hong Kong. He could only shop online in foreign countries and retrieve some toys and tableware from the 70s to 80s. "I returned to the United States as a doll in the later period. Fortunately, they are all made in Hong Kong."
Fragment of a fleeting fast food restaurant in a Hong Kong film in the 1980s:
In order to make all the visiting citizens relive their dreams, he set up popcorn machines in the corners. As long as the citizens click like and share on the page of the organizer that provides the venue, they can give popcorn on the spot. Akon hopes that the public will be in the exhibition Reminisce of Hong Kong where fast food was everywhere.
"You should revisit the brands you know. If you don't know them, you should get to know him. I hope you can leave happily (still in the epidemic)."
The exhibition will be on display at a ground shop in Nanchang Street from 12 noon to 8 pm from now until Sunday. Visitors can enter the venue for free, but visitors must take their temperature and wear masks. There is also a chance to limit the number of people to enter the venue. Please pay attention.
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