Cousins from Canada thought I was making fun of them when I suggested we go to a nice gastropub for dinner — beer, burgers wings — and said "You know we can eat Asian food too right?"

So I took them to a nice Sichuan place, the kind where the inexperienced can't feel their tongue after the appetiser: something they might not find so easily in Vancouver.

(I wasn't making fun, I just know a lot more Western restaurants in HK because I eat Chinese food with my family too much, and because it's easier with wine and beer.)