A tarte Tatin from Belon in Hong Kong’s Central district, no doubt similar to one Susan Jung had ordered from the restaurant before it was picked up by her ‘driver’. Photo: Margaret Lam A tarte Tatin from Belon in Hong Kong’s Central district, no doubt similar to one Susan Jung had ordered from the restaurant before it was picked up by her ‘driver’. Photo: Margaret Lam
A tarte Tatin from Belon in Hong Kong’s Central district, no doubt similar to one Susan Jung had ordered from the restaurant before it was picked up by her ‘driver’. Photo: Margaret Lam
Susan Jung
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Feast or Famine by Susan Jung

Stealing delivery or takeaway orders hurts restaurants already bleeding from Covid-19 and is especially wrong right now

  • The theft of Susan Jung’s tarte Tatin highlights a problem of people picking up other people’s orders at restaurants amid greater takeaway and delivery demand
  • Restaurants are in a bad way right now and can do without the cost of preparing food twice

Susan Jung
Susan Jung

Updated: 10:15am, 29 Aug, 2020

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A tarte Tatin from Belon in Hong Kong’s Central district, no doubt similar to one Susan Jung had ordered from the restaurant before it was picked up by her ‘driver’. Photo: Margaret Lam A tarte Tatin from Belon in Hong Kong’s Central district, no doubt similar to one Susan Jung had ordered from the restaurant before it was picked up by her ‘driver’. Photo: Margaret Lam
A tarte Tatin from Belon in Hong Kong’s Central district, no doubt similar to one Susan Jung had ordered from the restaurant before it was picked up by her ‘driver’. Photo: Margaret Lam
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Susan Jung

Susan Jung

Susan Jung trained as a pastry chef and worked in hotels, restaurants and bakeries in San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong before joining the Post. She is academy chair for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for the World's 50 Best Restaurants and Asia's 50 Best Restaurants.