BANG BANG Oriental Foodhall, a food court owned by Hong Kong restaurateurs in North London, received backlash recently after the restaurant group announced in early July that it would hold its fifth-anniversary celebratory event on July 21.
The incident was greeted with surprise within the Hongkongers community in the United Kingdom, as July 21 is a sad day for many Hongkongers. Netizens’ suspicion was justified when it was later found that the food hall owners turned out to be related to Heung Yee Kuk NT (HYKNT), a powerful pro-establishment advisory body for rural villages and towns in the Hong Kong New Territories. The exposure of this information eventually led to the cancellation of the planned celebration.
