I went to this year’s Hong Kong 7s international Rugby Tournament last week.

The exchange rate is approx HK$11.3 to £1. This makes everything very expensive. You are looking at around £6 for a 330ml bottle of beer in a hotel. Beer at the HK stadium was $52 for a pint of Carlsberg. A glass of house champagne in Felix (Peninsula Hotel) was $180 + service charge.

By the way, the HK stadium was sold out for the 2.5 day tournament. The capacity is 40,000. The local paper reported that over 1 million pints were consumed during the tournament. I estimated that 20% of the attendees were under age. Now work out how much each adult drank.

Eating out, the average price is around £30 a head.

Amongst the places I visited are:

Yung Kee, Peninsula Hotel, Mandarin Hotel, Park Lane Hotel, Spring Deer, Dan Ryan, the Peak Lookout, Spring Deere, the Outback etc.

There will be detailed reports over the next week on this gastronomic tour as well as advice for anyone who is interested in visiting HK.

The initial view is that a few places are trading on their “historical prominence” and is not that great.