A large three-story floating Chinese pagoda is perhaps not the first thing that one expects to see when leaving Amsterdam Central Station, but despite all expectations, that is indeed a huge floating restaurant docked in the water. The aptly-named Sea Palace was built in 1984. The massive building was then considered the world’s largest Chinese restaurant, capable of seating 900 people at once. The whole project cost over 5 million gulden (about 4.3 million Euro, in 2021) and was financed by a group of businessmen from both Amsterdam and Hong…
