A family dispute may see the closure of a preserved egg store in Sheung Wan known for drawing long queues.
Shun Hing Hoo has for years supplied and sold preserved and salted eggs from its shop in Wing Lok Street. Its previous owner, Kwok Wing-fai, died recently. According to a court filing, he left the business to a son, Kwok Tak-shing.
'The shop was so famous that even television interviewed them, and customers had to queue outside the shop to buy their duck eggs,' a nearby shopkeeper said yesterday.
Gold World Investments, owner of the site since 1991, filed a High Court writ this week seeking an order for Shun Hing Hoo to leave. Gold World said it had not been paid licence fees since February 2005.
A Gold World director, Kwok Tak-ming, who said he was a son of Kwok Wing-fai, noted that shops near the store attracted rents of HK$40,000 to HK$50,000 a month.
The filing names Kwok Tak-shing, Kwok Shuk-ching, Shirley Kwok Suk-ling and the estate of Kwok Wing-fai as defendants. Kwok Tak-ming says these three are his siblings.