Or Is a Year Too Short?

Just because a shop is famous doesn't mean it can be trusted.

Hong Kong's Joy Hing Food Shop, a popular roasted meat vendor in Wan Chai, has been around since before World War II. Yet the Customs and Excise Department recently found its weigh scales had been tweaked; if you asked for a pound of meat you would only get 62%. Because the meat was roasted people couldn't gauge the weight as easily as they could with raw meat.

Shorting the customer by 5 or 10% would be bad enough, but 38% is greedy beyond belief. Instead of merely fining the shop, Customs should inflict a little more pain by forcing Joy Hing to operate for a year with scales set to give customers 38% more meat.

Then it would become even more popular.

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