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[Lamma-Gung]

You might have noticed the huge, mostly Chinese-only banner along the fence of the "VV parking lot" besides the Lamma Bistro? It's advertising a "Welcome Opening Ceremony and Carnivl" (nice big typo). It's a local carnival on Sat, Nov 27, held from 8-10:30pm in the football field.

Lamma-Por & I just got an invitation to the opening ceremony from Lammadonna personally (including roasted pig cutting. Yummy!), so I've been getting a bit more details about this event, stopping by in her office.

Like to impress your mates by speed-drinking a bottle of beer through a straw as fast as possible? For the younger set, speed-drinking soft drinks is being offered as well.

Or what about this staple of TV variety shows, the wasabi-soaked sushi-eating contest, complete with close-ups of the tears running down the faces of the contestants? Available tomorrow night!

For the sweet-toothed, there's ice cream speed-eating, a truly messy affair, I can imagine, especially as one in each pair of contestants will be blind-folded!

And between each contest, there'll be lots of Karaoke howling, eh, singing!

Good, wholesome fun for the entire family, HK-style!

I'll be taking the pictures...from a distance...

[Guy MIller]

[Samson]

[Lamma-Gung]

[Alan]

[Lamma-Gung]

Well, yes, the two go together closely in Chinese culture, as you know.
But there's more to it than that. Although I don't agree at all with her politics and her party, on a personal level the friendliness, appreciation and sheer familiarity she shares with her community is impressive.

Not a typical politician at all, stuttering while reading her speech from her script, hardly looking at the audience, being visibly nervous speaking in public, she's really endearing to the locals, it seems. "She's just one of us, not a sleazy, smooth-talking politician!"

[Alan]

[Insomniac]

I think she's been using Botox since her election campaign, unless that was just an awfuly bad choice of lipstick? Anyway, how can that celebrate her 'opening' it didn't even have a front door. What will it be when its completed? Hope she's not opening a restaurant - the food looked real bad.

[Lamma-Gung]

Well, it was her current office that they opened, opposite the future rebuilt grocery shop which they just used as additional space for the buffet. Her office has been completed at least half a year ago, but it seems to have taken a LOT of time to get all these luminaries together.

The buffet was extremely popular and quite tasty. Ask most of the locals who snarfed it up, even though few of them were invited guests. Lamma-Por & I were two of only a few people with an official guest tag.

Ask Nick about the quality of the food (Lammadonna invited him in personally) or any of your local friends, as this was a real Chinese-locals-only event. Most of the locals seem to have attended the event, or at least the buffet which went on for hours afterwards and they never ran out of the sponsored food and drinks, I think.