THE scenario unfolds with a group of American tourists surfacing from a MTR exit with an open map of Central between them, trying to find Asia's trendiest street.
Panic reigns when, in their state of disorientation - as is nearly always the case when they emerge from an exit that is nowhere near this celebrated locale - one of their number almost gets run over by a bus.
By a happy chance, on hand to calm the situation and offer solace was Richard Feldman, who takes up the story.
''When I asked them where exactly they were looking for, they said the three magic words - Lan Kwai Fong. I offered to walk them over there.'' Feldman, as it happens, knows the district well.
He is, after all, chairman of the Lan Kwai Fong Association.
He went on: ''They had come from Kowloon and were going to the Cafe de Paris for lunch.