THE breezes of old Shanghai swirled fiercely around the Pedder Building when David Tang's retail emporium - Shanghai Tang - opened for business at the weekend.
Himself was there in his regulation attire, now come to be known as 'coolie chic'.
And browsing around were a number of people, mainly expatriates for some strange reason, who seemed to have picked up on the Tang dress code.
'We are now only 9,000 square feet but within months we hope to have expanded to 20,000 square feet by drilling every which way,' explained Tang.
(That being the case, funding the expansion should be no problem as, by our estimation, drilling a few metres due northeast of his place should bring him to the vault of a bank in the same block).
The window at the entrance to the store struck a politically correct note: the display contained both the flag of the future Special Administrative Region and a T-shirt proclaiming the forbidding message 'Foreign tiger not so powerful as local worm'.
