On This Day | When a family and servant were murdered in their Macau restaurant in 1985 – SCMP archive
On this day in 1985, the Cheng family and their servant were murdered in Macau in what is considered one of the city’s most violent crimes
On August 4, 1985, a family of nine and their servant were murdered in the Eight Immortals Restaurant in Macau.
Investigations began when severed limbs were discovered in waters off Hak Sa beach the same month, but it was not until September 1986 that Wong Chi-hung was arrested.
The 50-year-old man, who was charged with 10 counts of murder, would later kill himself in prison. Police subsequently closed their files on the case.
The murder is considered one of the most brutal in Macau’s history and is sometimes referred to as the “pork bun murders”, owing to grisly speculation that some of the victims’ remains were served in the restaurant’s signature pork buns.
In this On This Day article, we take a look at the Post’s coverage of the gruesome crime.
Man charged in ‘limbs’ murder case
by Tommy Lewis
This article was first published on October 1, 1986