The cargo was somewhat lighter than it was meant to be, though.
"We were in the factory in Guangzhou, China, which is making these little dressing tables we are putting in every room, to check them before shipping. The factory was empty - production had stopped so everyone could prepare for the Chinese New Year, which starts today.
"The tables were packed upside down and we spotted perfect handmarks on the underside where, in their rush to get home for New Year, the workers had lifted them before the lacquer had dried. So we refused to take them and they are going to have to redo the whole order and ship them to us in time for our opening."
The Yang Sing Oriental opens to the public in April -- and it will be unlike any other hotel in Britain, Gerry has promised.
The seven-floor hotel, next to the Yang Sing Restaurant on Princess Street in the city centre, will feature 48 huge guest rooms - every single one uniquely tailored and designed to be different to the next.
"The UK will never have seen a hotel where as much creativity has gone into it as this," designer Roberta Fulford tells me.
"This has been five years in the planning and I can't wait for people to see it when it is finished - it will look and feel like nowhere else they have ever stayed."
Owned by Gerry and Harry Yeung - the same brothers who run the famous Yang Sing Restaurant next door - the new hotel combines the best design elements of "colonial Shanghai" with the classic, contemporary styling currently en vogue in the Orient.
One of the stand-out features of the impressive hotel will be the massive reception desk. A collection of 120-year-old Canadian beams have been stuck together and carved by renowned Lincolnshire sculptor Mick Burns using special power tools.
But it's not just the furniture that will set the Yang Sing Oriental aside. They have commissioned from China their own `scent', which will feature in every area of the hotel and is based on orange and sandalwood.
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