Egyptian Building

Seated pharaohs, hieroglyphs and a missing head greet shoppers at a Southern California retail centre, where a replica of Egypt's Abu Simbel temples was built for a restaurant that never opened. SFGATE reported in March 2025 that the Egyptian Building at The Commons at Chino Hills copies the rock-cut temples in southern Egypt, with tall seated statues of Ramesses II and carvings of people, birds and boats. It added that a slab of exposed sandstone stands where a pharaoh's head is missing, and that the builders "nailed the wear and tear" of the original. SFGATE wrote that the original temples in southern Egypt were carved more than 3,200 years ago.

The building was meant to become Farou Foods, a banquet-style restaurant of almost 6,000 square feet intended to anchor the centre. SFGATE said plans went to the city of Chino Hills around 2016 and that the large pharaoh carvings were finished by early 2019; it reported that the pandemic halted work on the restaurant.