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3. Liang Court (Simplified Chinese: 亮阁, Traditional Chinese: 亮閣, Pinyin: Liàng Gé) was a shopping mall located in the vicinity of Clarke Quay, on the Singapore River. It was part of a mixed-use complex that includes the hotel Novotel Clarke Quay (formerly Hotel New Otani) and Somerset Liang Court Residences (formerly Liang Court Regency).
New Majestic Hotel. Coordinates: 1°16′45.4″N 103°50′25.5″E. The New Majestic Hotel (extreme right) is now a boutique hotel in Singapore's Bukit Pasoh Road. The New Majestic Hotel, on Bukit Pasoh Road in Singapore 's Chinatown is a hotel built in 1928. The building originally consisted of four shophouses and a restaurant.
Area code 303. Chinatown in Denver, Colorado, was a residential and business district of Chinese Americans in what is now the LoDo section of the city. It was also referred to as "Hop Alley", based upon a slang word for opium. [ 1] The first Chinese resident of Denver, Hong Lee, arrived in 1869 and lived in a shanty at Wazee and F Streets and ...
Singapore's Chinatown is known as Niu che shui [b] in Mandarin, Gû-chia-chúi in Hokkien, and Ngàuh-chē-séui in Cantonese - all of which mean "bullock water-cart" - and Kreta Ayer in Malay, [c] which means "water cart". This is due to the fact that Chinatown's water supply was principally transported by animal-driven carts in the 19th century.
Chinatown Point is a shopping mall located in Chinatown, Singapore next to Chinatown MRT station at the junction of New Bridge Road and Upper Cross Street. It is a mixed development which includes a 25-storey office tower located right above the mall. Constructed in the 1980s, the mall opened in 1990. From 2011 to 2012, the mall underwent ...
Damenlou Hotel (Chinese: 大门楼旅店) was a small hotel located at Ann Siang Road, in Chinatown, within the Central Area of Singapore. Damenlou Hotel's origins can be traced to the creation of the dish of fish head mifen (rice vermicelli), which was invented by Tang Kwong Swee in the 1920s. [1] The hotel had a famous restaurant, named Swee Kee.
Birds-eye view of Denver and the Rockies as viewed from the tower of the Daniels and Fisher Stores Co., 1913. Built as part of the Daniels & Fisher department store in 1910, it was the tallest building between the Mississippi River and the state of California at the time of construction, at a height of 325 feet (99 m). [ 2 ]
The hotel opened in 1971 as The Mandarin Singapore, occupying a single 36-storey block facing Orchard Road. Designed by Cyrus Casper Francis, it had 700 rooms. Atop the hotel was the Top of the 'M' , the highest revolving restaurant in Singapore. It has since been converted to a club lounge, open to guests who belong to the hotel chain's ...