This is a modest-area lounge with access to the Chinese Restaurant special menu upstairs. It very very clearly makes some play of 'secrets' in the body text of its marketing materials...
Tea Room Below Bun House: 'we serve tea, only tea.' Snigger snigger a la 'Blade Runner' - 'we do eyes, only eyes.' Or is that ice, 'cause it was pretty cold where he was, from memory. |
Billed ostensibly as 'just' vending tea only, other things may be available behind the counter.
For all the world both the upstairs main restaurant, as well as the underground 'tea room' have the feel of something Oriental and specifically Cantonese, Chinese.
Oh oh oh but there is so much going on here beneath the superficial eye.
...And I must suddenly slip into more of a tale of ancient days, rather than say what is going on - suffice though, to briefly indicate that MI5 would throw up if they knew...
I shall now begin recounting about the Duke of York - around the middle of the Eighteenth Century (he was the second son of George III, as you know) - who had some arrangements with a certain 'Greenwood' of the overseas trading agents of Cox and King. Cox and King established themselves in India and were a key conduit of 'financial business' between the King's Regiment and the East India Company. I won't go into details about how things were undertaken - you can probably read a decent enough account of these things on the internet with a little research. King's is today regarded as the oldest travel agents still operating in the (modern) world.
And this is Charles GEORGE Gordon - took over from FREDERICK Townsend Ward in the Shanghai Chinese Army |
The 'Tea Room Below Bun House' has a theme of a lot of luminous green lighting combined with plush velour banquettes and those old school Shanghai wicker and rosewood chairs.
There have been many 'Eden Cafes' and 'King's Bars' all through India, East Asia, and the Far East and they all have this same theme and lighting - in particular the lighting is subdued, in fact virtually black-like-nighttime. But the food and beverages are sensational - worthy of the high aristocracy, indeed. Is that the darkness and the glowing green neon lights making me 'wink wink...'
Yes it must be.
Anyway - Townsend Ward married a Chinese aristocrat, Yang Chang-Mei.
And you don't need to know any of these things, really. Because they are of no account in today's world in which, what is it - the European Commission, and the 'globalist elite' and so on - well they run everything, don't they.
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