The King Wah Centre, situated at the northeast corner of Shantung Street and Nathan Road, is a popular shopping centre in the Mong Kok area of Hong Kong. The 16-storey building features seven restaurant floors, three karaoke floors, along with 136 stores selling a variety of fashionable products.HistoryKing Wah RestaurantIn 1955, ‘The king of dim sum restaurants’ Tan Jienan, who was from Foshan and once operated Taotaoju in Guangzhou, opened King Wah Restaurant. The floor area of the five storey building was approximately and used for banquets hosting more than 150 diners. It was a landmark of Mong Kok at the time and served different segments of society on each of its five floors: 1/F was bakery with spittoon in the store that served grassroots 2/F was a Western restaurant 3/F was a Chinese tea housewith carpets (Chinese: 粵式茶樓 ); 4/F was a Chinese wine house (Chinese: 酒樓 )with waiters serving customers with towels, and asked customers for tips; 5/F was a nightclub that served the upper class. An unwritten tradition was that on horse racing days, gamblers would eat homemade Sachima at 20 to 30% discount there. The commonly known name of Sachima (Chinese: 馬仔 ) is the pun of “horse” in Cantonese, thus gamblers believed that after they have eaten it, they would win at horse racing (“食完馬仔，贏馬仔” ). During each year’s Mid-Autumn Festival a large advertisement for moon cake would be displayed outside the restaurant.