IT'S ALL FUN & GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE TRIPS OVER A LAZY SUSAN.

Short days and long evenings are inevitably drawing near and what a better way to stave off the chills then with Parlour Games, robust meals and plenty of Gewurztraminer? Or in the case with HB, Scotch and lots of Champagna.

MANCHU WOK FEAT. EAST VAN AL

He's funny that Babs. Although he's lived with a Heathen Chinee for 13 years, and even enjoys snarfing up Dai Goo's dong chays, he still loves those revolting sweet and sour chicken balls doused in orange sauce. His newest culinary addiction is something called almond chicken. He swears it's every bit as delicious as bacalhau (salt cod with cream sauce. Oh, yum). "Well dear, it's not excactly a Cantonese dish, it's more of a Western concoction you know".