Big savings nudge Hong Kong shoppers to ignore ban on meat, eggs from mainland China
Hong Kong grandmother Shirley Cheung* knows she is breaking the law every time she buys partially cooked beef brisket in Shenzhen to bring home. At a hotpot restaurant at Shenzhen’s Liantang Port, the brisket costs about 76 yuan (US$11) per kilogram. It would be more than HK$200 (US$26) at her local wet market in Sheung…