Sembo Oriental mini street

Seems like it has been a while since my last mini street purchase. Somehow this set caught my eye... good as a decoration for CNY, especially that Big Gold

LeLe mini street

LeLe too came out with the mini modular street. Just bought one, and they did not provide the stickers, jeeez!Can you guess what restaurant is this?

What restaurant is this?

Look at the micro figure for clue....

8 in 1, only if you buy 8

Zhen Gongfu

Been awhile did not buy them Sembo mini modulars. Somehow my girl says she likes this one, due to the fast food store has a funny name, called. Zhen Gongfu, with the picture of Bruce Lee.

Iconic image

Nothing exciting at the back

After checking the internet, there is actually a domestic fast food chain in China named Kung Fu with "Bruce Lee" as a brand image. In Chinese Mandarin, the store is actually called Zhen Gong Fu. But, if one looks closer, the brand is not actually Bruce Lee, but someone resembling Bruce Lee (shirt and pose).

Sembo do have some unique - actual release to satisfy the few.

My second Lepin - Pet Store

My 2nd Lepin modular - the Pet Store. Although it is named the Pet Store, but this set actually consist of 2 buildings, hence there are two base plate. Takes quite a while to build as did not do it full time. Read from the net this modular set is already retired from TLG

Good day for a walk in the park

Nice kitchen with fire place

Lets start the renovation

Living it up in the Living room

Manning the Pet Store

A breath of fresh air

Nice bicycle at the front street

Complete front facade

The back details

Time to give some comments after two big Lepin brick set experience.
As mentioned earlier from the Palace cinema set, "Forever sorting" and finding the correct piece is really time consuming. Instruction for black and dark grey pieces is confusing and easy to get mixed up. Encountered in Palace cinema one lost piece, but pet stores has 5 wrong pieces. The thin base plate tends to warp. Clutching is just ok.
The good point - the Price. Anyway, base just on numerical value (ignoring the currency), the value is quite similar buying in USD for the original and one will have no worry on the above negative points.  For those who "can't afford", Lepin is still a good substitution. But since this is a retired set, the price difference is quite significant.

My first Lepin - Palace Cinema

Finally! My first Lepin modular building.

SD6509

NOT this! This is the smaller scaled version from Sembo with some similarity. The interior for this cannot fit any minifigs inside.

Lepin modular building should be big enough to fit minifigures inside. Yes, something like below.

Nice projector

The show is in black and white

Pop corn and soda

The left most movie poster exactly describes my first experience with Lepin

Comes with a Limo with a Child Star

Roof door at the top

The Red carpet ground floor

Closely resembles the Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Lepin tries to replicate the exact copy, but some of the man minifigs hats are different from illustration. Encounter one lost critical piece, need to "fabricate" my own replacement.

Who's the child star?

Sembo mini street -Town Hall and Mini Cooper

SD6520 Red Town Hall

Fully furnished

Mini Cooper - The only mini car included is on the wall

Both come with a lighting block

Sembo mini world SB6058-61 Auto repair, Sport ctr etc

Another street set from Sembo SB6058-61. Sembo have changed their base plate,now it is a single piece instead of 2 pieces. Make the design more stable. Sembo is coming out this mini world set in a very fast pace.

Nice auto repair shop

The back is actually similar to the front, only without the sign, and different tools/

Front looks like a Sport Center for futsall or basketball

But from the back is a fitness center. Those barbells and bench press are brilliant

White and Blue Philips store

Cannot make out what are inside though

A Colorful Arcade

Not many gaming machine inside

Sembo M&H

Another building with micro figures inside from Sembo

See the two sales assistant

Sembo mini HSBC and others

Mini HSBC bank from Sembo, quite good design.

Notice that ATM

Top floor desk have a blue panel

Grill windows with moon shape entrance

Interior  only selling a few cloths

Choc filling cookies at the roof top

Mainly mini Paus insides

My kid screw up big time on the Ceramic shop sign sticker

inside do not have any nice ceramics

The box art