Curious. When I visited Hong Kong, and found I could not find the good restaurants, I took to calling up people I knew barely (such as people on my customer lists) to ask them to lunch. I intended to pay (and the custom in much of the world is that if a vendor invites a customer to lunch, the vendor always pays, though of course the customer is paying indirectly.) I did this only so they would direct me to good places to eat, and for some company, and that part worked -- but to my embarrassment they insisted on paying, saying they were the hosts and I was the visitor to their town.