The Revive China Society could not wait to fire the first gun of the revolution soon after its headquarters was established. Immediately they planned, behind closed doors, for the first uprising in Guangzhou. But even with the most hectic schedule they had to eat, and so the revolutionaries, including Mr. Sun, often visited teahouses and restaurants to have their "breakfast, lunch and dinner meetings". Noteworthy is the last meeting of the Guangzhou Uprising, which happened in October 1895. As the Qianheng Company was put under strict surveillance by the Hong Kong police, the group had to hold the last meeting in Heng Fa Teahouse at 325 Queen's Road Central.

Founded in 1846 at Wellington Street right after the city's open-up, Heng Fa Teahouse was one of the earliest Chinese teahouses in Hong Kong. It was later moved to Queen's Road Central and kept running until the 1930s.

The original plan for the Guangzhou Uprising was to send an assemblage of 2000 to occupy Guangzhou. It was decided that Mr. Sun would be the military commander in Guangzhou and Yeung Kui-wan the director in Hong Kong, taking care of the finance and the backup of the troop. Ho Kai, as the plan went, would be the spokesman of this event following its success, and a party of westerners in Hong Kong would talk their home countries into supporting the establishment of a revolutionary government.