Mao Mao bows out

Pink Mao Mao - Jackie Chan's favourite hang-out - is closing to make way for Gilbert Yeung Kei-lung's much-anticipated super-lounge Dragon-i.

Tonight's Candy Store party will be the last bash at the Emperor Hotel venue in Happy Valley before the Pink Mao Mao becomes a private members club. And it is going to be huge.

'We are going to go out with a bang,' said Yeung, whose Wednesday night parties at the club go a long way towards explaining Hong Kong's current lack of Thursday morning appointments. 'Tonight is our night to thank all the people who made Candy Store and Pink Mao Mao such a success.'

The closure clears the decks for Dragon-i, Yeung's ambitious 6,500 sq ft Wyndham Street venture in The Centrium, which opens on November 27.