‘There are no pools of vomit’: LKF tycoon Allan Zeman blasts UK tabloid report on boozy Brits in Hong Kong

Pools of vomit, broken bottles and a drunken strip show: this was the picture painted by a prominent UK tabloid of Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong district as the daily gave a scathing account of British expats’ debauchery.

But property magnate Allan Zeman, the “father of Lan Kwai Fong”, lambasted the article as inaccurate and “frustrating”.

“For people who work and live there on a daily basis, this is not the case at all,” Zeman told the South China Morning Post. “It’s so far from the truth that it just doesn’t exist. He’s [the reporter] describing an area that is not Lan Kwai Fong.”

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Although there are occasional problems with people misbehaving, the bar and restaurant area in Hong Kong’s financial district is, in general, nothing like it was described in The Sun, Zeman said.

Describing the “work hard, play hard” attitude of British expatriates, The Sun's report on Tuesday said their behaviour had “horrified the conservative Hong Kong Chinese”.

The article focused primarily on behaviour in Hong Kong’s popular nightspots of Wan Chai and Lan Kwai Fong, described in the article as the “Magaluf of Hong Kong”.