I'm finally one step closer to stalking Tony Leung.

When asking my friend if she wanted to go for some after-work dinner on Sunday night, little did I know that the swish Thai restaurant we picked would provide the first clue in my mission to stalk my favourite actor, Hong Kong’s Tony Leung, or Liang Chao Wei, as they call him here.

A perfectly ordinary walk to the toilet revealed a wall full of photos showing celebrities who had dined at the place, and a closer look at said wall revealed Mr Leung in all his glory! Admittedly, the photo in question (an, ehm, photograph of which you can see below) looks like it was taken more than a couple of years ago, but it nevertheless serves as undisputable proof that my idol had, in fact, eaten at the same place as I did. Who knows, he may have used the same spoon?! Other celebrities on the display wall included actors Simon Yam and Eric Tsang, as well as Basketball giant Yao Ming. (I was going to take pictures of their pictures as well, but at that point I was getting strange looks from members of staff, so I decided to leave it.)

The food we had wasn’t bad either, the service (as provided by what had to be a ladyboy)- the only thing that disturbed me ever so slightly was the four huge and not fake alligators lying in a very shallow pond right next to the little bridge that leads up to the payment desk. Though the lady (boy?) insisted they were dead, that argument didn’t exactly explain why they still had their mouths sealed with tape. My crazy friend’s first reaction, of course, was “Take photo, yayyyy!”, but I wasn’t quite so confident.

Ah well- at least I did manage to get on Tony’s tracks. Now all I need to do is book that ticket to Hong Kong.

Bis dann,

Nadine

Yes, I'm not crazy- he really was there!

Spicy doufu with thousand-year old egg- my favourite of the evening

Scaaaaaaaa-reeeeeeeeeee!