Went to Hutong in TST for dinner last night. For non-Hong Kongers TST is the shoreline on the Kowloon side, looking back at the Island and will be familiar to you as the place where all the postcard photographs are taken from. Good view, great food, fantastic fit-out, average service. There was a waiter to table ratio of 7:1, of whom there was obviously one senior waiter - he was the one with the earpiece. I imagine it's so the kitchen can keep him in touch, but this being HK I suspect he also has his mobile phone plugged in at the same time. The other, more junior waiters, let's call them lackeys, had little idea how to wait on tables other than to hover in a semi-menacing fashion waiting for an opportunity to prove they are attentive. This lead to dishes being whisked away the second they were finished (leave them - we may want to mop up the sauce); the wrong drink being refilled (if Perrier's next to someone's cup, there's a good chance that's what they are drinking already); and that curious habit of the bill being presented and the waiter remaining millimetres away while you sign the slip. Including when you fill in the tip. After the obligatory 10% service charge. But I do recommend the place as a good "special night out" or "impress the out-of-towners" eatery.

Just watch out for the pushy Indian tailors around the Star Ferry terminal. Is it me or are they getting more aggressive.

Finally a lesson learned yesterday. If the phone company sends you a bill, the best place for it is in your husband's hands so he can pay it at work the following day. Waiting until threatening messages and blocked phone calls occur is not a great alternative. And don't leave the bills in the fruit bowl. To us males it is not an intuitive place to put a phone bill that needs paying.