Lui Seng Chun, one of Hong Kong?s oldest tong laus, or shophouses, opened its doors last week after a HK$28 million year-long facelift to transform it into a centre for traditional Chinese medicine. The 1930s grade-one historic building hosts four practitioners offering acupuncture, Chinese medicine and bone setting to an estimated 80 patients a day.
The building
- Built in 1931
- Formerly a ground-floor bone-setting clinic while upper floors were residential
- Now a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and teaching centre run by Baptist University
- Originally owned by Lui Leung, co-founder of Kowloon Motor Bus (donated by his family to the government in 2003 after lying vacant since 1980)
- Late art deco architecture (Streamline Moderne with neoclassical elements)