Italians, like the Chinese, are notoriously difficult to please on the culinary front.
My friend from Rome, Paola, does not suffer fools gladly in her quest to find authentic food - particularly the Italian kind.
'You wouldn't fob me off with a fake Lamborghini so why should pasta or pizza be any different,' she shrugs.
As for finding tasty pizza in Hong Kong that accurately reflects its Mediterranean origins, she generally snorts with derision.
So it came as a surprise when she gleefully revealed a pizzeria that not only came up to scratch but was a stone's throw from her own doorstep on Lamma Island.
Tucked away off Yung Shue Wan's Main Street, on the way to the beach, is Cafe Milano - a rather nondescript looking place squeezed in among knickknack shops and a grocery store.