I'd forgotten quite when we lost Nanjie, but knew it was some time around then.
It had been on the cards for months, so Huxley had been looking around for new locations. Red Yard was his first project. Well, second - there was a Huxley's II by Gongti Nanmen, next to Pipe, but that only lasted 8 or 9 months.
What fixes the Yandai Huxley's launch for me (apart from the fact it was my first 'local' here!) is that Huxley picked Jackson Bai to run it. Jackson had started off in Huxley's II, and then took over Red Yard shortly after that opened. Red Yard was a great hangout in the summer of '04, but it folded in the autumn. Luckily, the new Huxley's opened almost immediately. It's a pity it's gone downhill so badly since Jackson left the place.