You can count on Hong Kong Cable Television to keep expanding the range of viewing options available to its subscribers. It already carries BBC, CNN and many others that add to the flavour of Hong Kong, international city in Asia. Now Cable TV is taking advantage of some of its new digital capacity. Six adult channels become available from 6am this Thursday. They include Channel Blue from South Korea, Paradise TV with Japanese adult game shows, Future TV with Japanese adult sport (adult sport?) content and Playboy TV. Cable TV spokesman Garmen Chan said the new channels were being launched as part of the broadcaster's 'tiering initiative' - subscribers can take any single channel for HK$60 per month or HK$168 for all. Parents need not worry about exposing their children to this fascinating but adult content: there will be set-top box security codes to ensure parents retain viewing control. Cable TV also screens all its adult material carefully before broadcasting it, putting mosaic patterns over close up shots of some body parts and excessive violence. 'Breasts are OK, but close-ups of private parts are taboo,' Mr Chan says. Mr Chan is one of several Cable TV staffers tasked with watching hours of uncut adult material from around the world. In the company's Standards and Practices Department, offending material is identified and later edited out. Mr Garmen said: 'It is one of my many duties. It is becoming increasingly obnoxious.' Office dining: As Hong Kong companies cut budgets for such essentials as business lunches, the Landmark's new Deli at Trattoria has taken a bold step: it has hired two full-time delivery staff to bring its high-quality-at-a-reasonable-price savouries and sandwiches directly to office customers in Central. Marketing executive Andre Chin told us he thought this was a first for an up-market Central eatery and was aimed at people with no time for a dine-in lunch. Now for the menu: how about Minestrone alla Genovese soup for HK$24, followed by two Prosciutto Parma ham sandwiches (HK$44 each) and a slice of Torta al Tartufo e Cioccolato for HK$32? A regular coffee, latte or cappuccino is a very reasonable economic downturn price of HK$22. Spotted in Central recently: business types meeting for outside sandwich lunches with contacts. But never Lai See, our expense account remains unchanged and never a joke. Scary buys: Lai See will not be celebrating Halloween this year. Or next year. We did not grow up with it, do not understand it, and therefore dislike and totally ignore it. Until . . . we found a selection of Halloween costumes and accessories from Toys 'R' Us, one of the world's leading toy retailers, called 'Screamin' Scene for Halloween'. What can parents be thinking if they even consider buying, for HK$74.90, a Scream Only Bleeding Knife, or a Murder Axe for HK$39.90. Would you want your little son dressing up in a Gas War Fighter Costume (HK$179.90), or your daughter in a Bleeding Ghost Face Spoof mask (HK$159.90)? Kids love this stuff, of course. It lets them build their little kiddie imaginations and it is fun to dress up. But bleeding knives and gas war fighters? Christmas is altogether nicer. Lucky numbers: In the Lai See office, we often seek advice about news items from our many friends and contacts around Hong Kong and the rest of the world. But if we are looking for a wonderful story to start the week, we call up our friend, the charming Adelia Christanti, an Indonesian woman who lives in Mid-Levels. Adelia, like many Indonesian people, uses two names. She has given us the next winning Mark Six numbers. They are 2, 8, 19, 32, 21 and 7. In a previous column, we published a set of winning numbers found on a joke-finding trip to Cheung Chau island. But as several readers have pointed out, the Hong Kong Jockey Club only managed to select one of our numbers. Let us see if their number-selecting super-computer can do better this time! Graphic: whee28gbz