Allan Zeman (盛智文) GBS JP is a German-born Jewish businessman doing business in Hong Kong. He is known as Father of Lan Kwai Fong. The modern Hong Kong honours system was created by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government after the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. ... A Justice of the Peace (JP) is a puisne judicial officer appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...
He felt that Hong Kong had no western restaurant that suit his needs. In 1980s, he started a restaurant in Lan Kwai Fong, a narrow street in Central. Later, Lan Kwai Fong developed to become one of the most important bar and night life district in Hong Kong. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Lan Kwai Fong in the daytime. ... The night view of the Central as viewed from Tsim Sha Tsui on the opposite side of the Victoria Harbour Central (Chinese: ä¸ç°; Jyutping: zung1 waan4; Cantonese IPA: ; Pinyin: ZhÅnghuán) is an area located in Central and Western District, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. ... Tourists sit outside a bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand A Depression-era bar in Louisiana. ... Nightlife is the collective term for any entertainment that is available and more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning. ...
So, Zeman, who took the job at Ocean Park after a request from Hong Kong's then-chief executive Tung Chee-Hwa, decided that he needed to transform Ocean Park into an attraction that could capture some of the overflow from Disney and be what SeaWorld is to Disneyland and Disney World.
Zeman sees a price tag of $700 million, with the whole project completed by 2010, and he's now trying to convince government officials that they should give their blessing and O.K. the spending.
Zeman is banking on getting approval not only for the park proposal but also for another project on his wish list, an extension of the city's subway system to the park's doorstep.