【明報專訊】''John, why don't we go around the corner to the Sun Tai Ping Restaurant,'' Gregor said as he finished his sweet coffee and smacked his lips. I finished my box of soya drink and paid Hung Sok at Alan's Café. I think Hung Sok's countenance and gravel voice scared a lot of people away, but over time I found that beneath his hard facade he was a very good and generous man. I was later told that before he married and settled on Cheung Chau he had been in the merchant marine and had circled the globe many dozens of times.