Gifts designed to give you a boost
This year's perfect Christmas gift could come in a three-bottle pack promising benefits that last well beyond Boxing Day.
Stuart-Bradshaw's Complete Nutrition Pack is the bells-and-whistles designer combination of vitamins that contains everything from vitamin C and special liver detoxifiers not normally found in multi-vitamins, to borage and flax seed oils, as well as the 'brain food' phos-choline.
Health consultant Graeme Stuart-Bradshaw launched his brand range of vitamins and minerals about a year ago, and has since reformulated the nutrition pack to include more liver protection and anti-oxidants.
Packs, which cost $530 and last a month, are available at 1204 Luk Yu Building, 24-26 Stanley Street, Central. Tel: 2523-7121.
Best deal in town The best dinner deal at the moment is at Hotel Nikko Hong Kong's Sagano restaurant, which is holding an all-you-can-eat shabu-shabu fair until the end of January. The Japanese hotpot consists of thinly sliced beef and vegetables cooked in a claypot and served with two sauces - pouzu (a mix of bitter orange and soy sauce) and gomadare (a thicker sauce flavoured with crushed sesame seeds). Prices are $380 for adults and $190 for children.
Breakfast at Seibu Seibu's foodhall hours, at Pacific Place, are being extended in a three-month trial to test the Admiralty breakfast market. In-store foodstalls are on full alert for the new hours, which bring forward opening time from 10.30am to 7.30am. The trial runs from December 8. Restaurants taking part include The Continental, which will be serving coffee, muffins, cakes, toasted foccaccia and sandwiches, and savoury and sweet croissants. The Asian foodstalls, however, have expressed least interest in the new initiative to draw crowds into the basement venue, despite losing to competitors such as city'super in Causeway Bay.
No nonsense diner Hong Kong's quest for six-star service could take a beating if, by some chance, it follows up-and-coming US restaurant trends. Following a move started in New York, food fascists are now top of the hip list in fad-conscious Los Angeles.
The restaurant that has turned its back on the American 'have a nice day' attitude is Nozawa Sushi, a nondescript venue said by the stars to serve the best sushi in town.
The problem is diners are not allowed to choose what they eat themselves if they sit at the most-sought-after seats at the bar. That privilege is left to restaurant owner/chef Kazunori Nozawa, whose daily specials menu carries only one item - 'trust me'.
Nozawa, who has said Americans know nothing about sushi, refuses to serve cucumber with tuna and berates anyone who does not eat it all in one bite.
