When McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Paterson Street in Hong Kong, my then girlfriend, who became my wife and I were there with a McConga line of people including Commercial Radio disc jockey Mike Souza along with the always attractive Rebecca Ng. Rebecca’s husband and co-owner of the franchise in Hong Kong, Daniel Ng, was busy mingling with guests and cutting various ribbons. Being Creative Director with McDonald’s advertising agency Glenn Graphic, which evolved in

The only person I knew who could read the tea leaves and truly understand the China market was my friend and client, Daniel Ng. A former NASA engineer with a PhD in engineering, he somehow ended up opening the first McDonald’s in Hong Kong by owning the franchise in the city. A Visionary Against the Odds Despite the naysayers warning that Chinese people only ate rice and citing Burger King's decline in Hong Kong, Daniel sailed past them, guided by incredible self-belief. When

Let’s address the elephant and dodo bird in the room: If the world is in a mess, little old Hong Kong has become a miserable and sad city when looking beyond the obvious, like the little train that could, the city is small enough to travel under the radar and be anything it could be plus being something special. These days, this train is travelling in reverse and perilously close to being derailed. Why? Perhaps it’s a lack of creativity which was here when there was an inspir