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Now Lai See has been in these parts for a while now.
So the delicacies served up in the eateries of deepest, darkest Mongkok have long since lost their power to shock.
These days, we think it's kind of cute when a jutting bird foot salutes the soup slurper with a mini high-five.
But on Thursday, a couple of things happened that reaffirmed Lai See's commitment to her strict bagels-and-chocolate diet.
That was the day Hong Kong banned the import of live pigs, cattle, sheep and goats from the Netherlands.
The idea was to stem the spread of that foot-and-mouth business.
'It is an endemic disease occurring in pigs in Southeast Asia, including Hong Kong,' a spokesman told Reuters.
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