What Kills Us This Week.

This week, Hong Kong is back on form with yet another huge crisis. Once again melamine has turned up in our milk products from China. Yup, barely has the ink dried on the death certificates for the last lot of unscrupulous Chinese dairy farmers and here they are, back at it again.

At least this time it isn't hexavalent chromium; the "bad, bad stuff" from the movie Erin Brockovich. Remember that? How, when the Chinese dairy industry took the melamine out after the last lot were caught and sentenced to death, they put in leather factory waste instead?  I blogged it back then. Let's see if I can find it.  Yup, here.

However, the really good news about this latest panic is for the New Zealand dairy industry. Milk from Kiwi cows, bottled in New Zealand before being shipped over is now making a killing in HK.  Keith's buying it, although, for him, it's a patriotic thing. At least that's what he's saying, the big fat scaredy cat.

Me? I'm fine with the milk from the local Trappist Dairy.  Keith keeps telling me that it hasn't been run by Trappist Monks in a century and these days it's just a name, but I keep the faith.

And isn't it great that New Zealand has such a fabulous reputation here in China.  Clean and Green!  There's no place that can match it in the minds of the Chinese. Everything that's wrong with China is right in The Land of the Long White Cloud, so it's no wonder they're moving there in such numbers.

So that would have to be my choice for this week:

THREATDOWN

Mainland Chinese with too much money

and too little taste in architecture,

rocking over in such large numbers

erecting jarring buildings all over

that spoil New Zealand's pristine aesthetic perfection.