I skipped to Lan Kwai Fong hours after finance secretary Henry Tang gave the catering industry the biggest lai see of all - a cut in wine and beer duties by half. And I took that to mean half off my drinks as well. But I later found out bar math doesn’t work that way and news, contrary to...
published: Mar 9 2007 - 12:00am
In my youth, I once dumped a really good guy because he was a vegan. I figured we had nothing in common since food is what I live for and I could quite easily live
without him.
It was only years later at a chance meeting that I found him eating a bacon cheeseburger and swigging a glass of house red...
published: Mar 2 2007 - 12:00am
I remember every time I’ve ever thrown up in my adult life. The most recent was after dinner with Dick at the local yakitori joint. We downed four bottles of sake, mixing in lamb chops, sausages and chicken parts on skewers. Apparently, I spent the night hugging the toilet. Not fun for a...
published: Feb 23 2007 - 12:00am
I secured a table at NOBU way before it opened. What can I say? I bought into the hype. I thought if I didn’t book one that early, I wouldn’t be able to get one for months. My reservation was for the first Saturday after its opening – a pretty hot table, really; so hot I couldn...
published: Feb 16 2007 - 12:00am
I’m really not big on Valentine’s Day. In fact, most years I pretend it doesn’t exist.
I’d love to find a country, or even a small village that doesn’t celebrate Feb 14th. I’m looking for the Valentine equivalent of Bradford, England, a town whose overly PC...
published: Feb 9 2007 - 12:00am
Rich, I want to go out. I’ve locked myself in the house all month recovering from the holiday season and I am turning white. This whole no-drinking January thing isn’t healthy for us. We’re just not that kind of people.
I’ve been lying in bed thinking about the best ways to...
published: Jan 26 2007 - 12:00am
I licked my finger after a sweaty workout lifting weights and thought, “Mm, not bad.”
Rewind: I was in a chef’s kitchen a few weeks back tasting different salts with slices of radishes when I realized “Yeah, there is a taste to salt beyond just salty.”
My sodium...
published: Jan 19 2007 - 12:00am
Dick accused me of being cheap when I left $4 in the receipt sleeve. “But there’s a 10 percent service charge added to our bill,” I said defensively, losing the point.
But he knew something I didn’t. That “10 percent service charge” really isn’t a tip -...
published: Jan 12 2007 - 12:00am
We’ve all heard the rumors that multi-dimensional beings are better lovers than your regular single-plane-of-existence Joe, but I’d never had the chance to find out until O’Bees the Wanderer introduced himself to me on the trans-Semi-Levels glideway a few weeks ago. “Let me...
published: Jan 5 2007 - 12:00am
With Legco banishing smokes from the city’s eateries come Jan 1, I decided to try smoking with my dinners to see what all the bitching is about. I’ve been meaning to find a new vice to replace my shoplifting joys, and since it will be a crime to smoke soon, why not give it a go before...
published: Dec 29 2006 - 12:00am
