Chinese-Indonesian restaurant Bei Lei

By the end of 2024 we at the Twente Modelrailway Club started furnishing the Stationsplein (Station Square) on our club layout.
My colleague and 'buiilding mate' Cor Schreuders by now has fished the Mengerink shoe shop. He has now leaped upon the parking lot gehind that building.
I myself started on the innercity side of the square. This is located on the very edge of the club layout, directly against the back wall. So there is no room for real buildings; just for 'flat' facades.

The first model that has been finished is of Stationsplein 1, on the corner of the Korte Hengelosestraat. This originally was the residence of textile manufacturer Nico ter Kuile, but has the last decades mainly been used as a hospitality business. Online photos can be found of e.g. a restaurant Royal (1969), the police social club Hermantap (1979), Media Art Café Berlijn (2011) and recently Foodies. But in for instance 1993 a fashion store, Hendriksen, was also located here.

Who exploited the premises in the early 1970 (the age of our club layout) is uncertain. But because of the photo below the Chinese-Indonesian restaurant Bei Lei has the best cards. Also because this kind of restaurants is disappearing from our streets fastly, I thought it would nice to immortualize it on the club layout.

The only dated internet photo: Boxing Day 1975: of the crossing Stationsplein - Korte Hengelosestraat. On the left shoe shop Mengerink, then the Minrebo-gebouw with e.g. the Municipal Social Service and the Kijkshop and on the right Chinese-Indonesian restaurant Bei Lei.

Photo of the model of restaurant Bei Lei, with the MobaLedLib lighting

There are just a few photographs of Bei Lei, and all are vague and in black-and-white. So it was quite a puzzle to reconstruct the Chinese illuminated signs. Hopefully, they are kind of correct.
On the photos of the building one can see that there were also Chinese characters on the windows. Sadly the were all unreadable. So it was decided to leave them out. This makes it also easier to peek inside, through the curtains.

The ground floor got internet photos of Chinese restaurants as a background.

As mu loyal followers will know I tend to iinstall lighting in my models. So Bei Lei also got a MobaLedLib system build in. The RGB/SMD leds in the various rooms are managed by an Arduino.
In the upstairs bedrooms the walls got different colours. In  this way the same warm-white light still gives a variety in colours when seen from outside, through the (paper) lace curtains.