was recommended to restaurant in intercontintal hotel 70 mody road HK called Mistral Its italian style with rather low ceilings and usual fake italian design.
I went with my brother in law,steven, who had been there some years ago. After waving at waiters who of course are trained to look the other way we succeeded in placing our orders some 20 mins after arriving. Steven ordered ministrone and I ordered some duck livers to start. When his arrived he tasted it and then pulled a face. I looked at the bowl and saw what looked like squid floating in it. After calling the waiter we discovered that it was fish soup!! The ministrone arrived to replace it but was more reminicent of left over washing up water. My livers were just about passable. I had escalope of veal in breadcrumbs. What arrived was a flattened piece of tasteless board which was enormous and hardly edible. Steven's main course was so unmemorable that I cant remember it
Since I had a plane to catch there was no time to try any alternatives.
So strike that one off your lists, diners in HK.There are plenty of good places to go to in HK and this one is not one of them
mike 17th november
Saturday, 17 November 2007
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
letter from Hong Kong
November 14th 2007 HK
Another day in boomtown where buildings vie with each other to reach ever further into the clouds and the Hang Seng Index hovers in the stratosphere. Only trouble is that those clouds don't contain a sliver lining but rather a deadly lining of pollution which is sometimes visible as a low yellow haze but all too often invisible and still potentially lethal.
One resident told me of a friend's son . He had been born in HK and was a very accomplished athlete and especially good at tennis. At the age of around 18 he went to the USA and sought to enroll in a tennis academy. He was asked to take a routine medical exam. To his amazement he failed and was actually told that he had TB. After getting a second opinion he discovered that he did not have TB but worse than that his lungs had been badly scarred by the poisons he had grown up with in HK.
Many Hong Kongers are moving out of Central HK to the islands and outlying regions to escape the air pollution problems and property prices reflect these moves.
To be fair the government is acutely aware of the problem but its hard to combat it since it flows from the mainland industries. China in turn is aware but finds it hard to control essential industries which have to grow to support the increasing demands of an economically hyperactive population seeking to have the same opportunities that the West has enjoyed for so many years. China thinks that its a bit rich for us to throw stones at them for wanting to join our club which managed to destroy the ozone layer for so many years without any thought as to the consequences.
mike
Another day in boomtown where buildings vie with each other to reach ever further into the clouds and the Hang Seng Index hovers in the stratosphere. Only trouble is that those clouds don't contain a sliver lining but rather a deadly lining of pollution which is sometimes visible as a low yellow haze but all too often invisible and still potentially lethal.
One resident told me of a friend's son . He had been born in HK and was a very accomplished athlete and especially good at tennis. At the age of around 18 he went to the USA and sought to enroll in a tennis academy. He was asked to take a routine medical exam. To his amazement he failed and was actually told that he had TB. After getting a second opinion he discovered that he did not have TB but worse than that his lungs had been badly scarred by the poisons he had grown up with in HK.
Many Hong Kongers are moving out of Central HK to the islands and outlying regions to escape the air pollution problems and property prices reflect these moves.
To be fair the government is acutely aware of the problem but its hard to combat it since it flows from the mainland industries. China in turn is aware but finds it hard to control essential industries which have to grow to support the increasing demands of an economically hyperactive population seeking to have the same opportunities that the West has enjoyed for so many years. China thinks that its a bit rich for us to throw stones at them for wanting to join our club which managed to destroy the ozone layer for so many years without any thought as to the consequences.
mike
Saturday, 10 November 2007
road works/end of the world
Have you noticed that London in particular and other places too is now almost overun with road works often accompanied by "road closed" signs.. I have a theory that what is really happening is that a warren of burrows is being constructed beneath our cities with secret underground towns and supply houses being constructed by our lords and masters ready for the third world war . It's all very mysterious. Maybe we should send investigotors to look below just in case I am right
mike
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