John Tsang: Let's introduce food trucks to Hong Kong's streets
After coffee and French movies, John Tsang Chun-wah has now moved on to his next bourgeois preference: food trucks.
After coffee and French movies, John Tsang Chun-wah has now moved on to his next bourgeois preference: food trucks.
If the financial secretary has his way, food vans - like those featured in last year's Hollywood foodie movie Chef - may be cruising the streets of Hong Kong.
In the movie, the main character rediscovers his love for food while selling Cuban sandwiches and yucca fries from the open window of a food van travelling across the US. In Hong Kong, vans would more likely be touting fish balls and chow mein.
In Tsang's 2011 budget speech, he identified himself as being "middle class" - despite earning HK$301,000 a month back then - because he drank coffee and watched French movies. He was, perhaps understandably, ridiculed for this.
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Now, in his budget speech, he has drawn from his time in the US for his latest idea.
"I have asked relevant departments ... to facilitate alfresco dining operations, and to consider introducing food trucks, which are popular abroad, to the mix of Hong Kong's existing food scene," he said.