In addition, there's the irony that my favorite "Italian" restaurants in Hong Kong include branches of Pizza Express (a restaurant chain with British origins that's now owned by a Beijing-based company), New York Italian joint Carbone and Sagrantino, a Japanese-owned restaurant offering Tokyo-style Italian cuisine. And then there's Bread Tree, a distinctly Hong Kong-style budget eatery which was a favorite of pretty much everyone at the company I first worked for in the Big Lychee -- and has remained a favorite of mine long after I stopped working in a part of Hong Kong where Bread Tree makes deliveries to.