Feeding an appetite for controversy
Guess who came to dinner? An alleged former triad boss. Guess who invited him? A great mystery. Guess who organised the dinner? An even greater mystery. Rural leader Tang Ho-nin denied for days that he did. Then yesterday he confessed. What's he hiding? Guess who settled the bill?
Depends on who you ask. If none present knew who paid or who exactly had organised the dinner, how come they all knew precisely when and where to turn up? And that includes the triad boss. Somebody please summon Sherlock Holmes. Get Dr Watson, too. There certainly is nothing elementary about the case.
Did Leung Chun-ying's people set up the sit-down to canvass votes or get the dirt on election rival Henry Tang Ying-yen from alleged former gangster Kwok Wing-hung, also known as Shanghai Boy? Is Henry Tang hiding even more dirt? If so, how did an alleged gangster get to know about it? If not, why did Shanghai Boy turn up for the dinner? Was he a freeloader? Who ordered the food if there was no host? And what did they all eat anyway? Most important, was the food good? The plot thickens.
Help, Sherlock.
Hot on the trail of a culinary bargain