In my opinion all of the western world leaders should boycott the Olympics opening ceremony.

Not because some monks want to print their own stamps - I couldn’t give a toss about that- they should skip it because watching athletes walk around holding flags is incredibly boring and there’ll be no booze.

Tibet is a soap opera
Lhasa looks a bit like Walford don’t you think? Gets bigger if you click it too.

My advice to GB, GWB and all of that lot: tell Beijing you’re definitely coming, get the free flights over, then at the last minute call up from your hotel to say you picked up a nasty case of scurvy on the flight over and won’t be able to make it after all.

Sell your tickets outside for a handsome profit, and spend the cash on a big slap-up roast duck supper.

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A big slap up roast duck supper is, by enormous co-incidence, what I had at the newish Hyatt hotel on the Bund hotel Wednesday night. Man alive it was good, way better than the dried up bird I had on HuaiHai Lu a few months back. I’m still picking that one out of my teeth.

The skin was glistening and crispy, the meat tender and moist, basically the only problem was that I had to divided up the spoils between three other greedy maws instead of eating the whole duck to myself.

I’m going out with the same three hungry friends tonight so no doubt will have to share my food again. Maybe I’ll call up XinDaLu and book a table for 1 instead- I can feel a nasty case of scurvy coming on.

Whole Roast Duck 228RMB- XinDaLu@Hyatt On The Bund, 199 HuangPu Lu.
Takes 50 minutes to prepare so call them on 6393 1234 first.