Jet-setters descend on Pierrot for boisterous triple birthday bash

ENJOYING a pleasant repast with friends at Pierrot, our post-munching musings were continuously interrupted by boisterous tables at the far end.

Looking across we noticed two dinner parties in progress with some distinctly familiar faces chomping away.

Curious, as always, we inquired further and discovered that one table represented a joint birthday celebration for Norman McLeod and Andre Oulette (the superior wave and curl merchants of Lan Kwai Fong).

While at the other, dashing Italinate businessman Raimondo Chiodi was also celebrating his entry into this world on a date shrouded in the mists of time.

It's quite amazing the distances people will travel these days for a good meal. For Andre's mum Gina and Norman's mum Ina had travelled all the way from Canada and Scotland respectively for dinner. Another of Norman's friends, Margaret Edstrom, had flownin from Australia.

Over at the Chiodi table, Raimondo's constant companion - action movie star Michelle Yeoh - was waylaid by filming commitments in Beijing.