Peter Auge says his HK produ can only be beaten by masters and ...

Rudiger Koppen smokes hisGerman sausage for dinersat the 'Golden Mile'The Holiday Inn Golden Mile inNathan Road opened in 1974 and sincethen its restaurant and delicatessenshave been providing Hong Kong withthe some of the finest German Cuisineto be found in Asia.The man responsible for the GoldenMile's decidedly German flavour, isRudiger Koppen, the Hotel's firstGeneral Manager and as the namesuggests, a very traditional German,gentleman.While setting up the Golden Mile,the Holiday !nn chain's first hotel inthe territory, Koppen discovered thatHong Kong was lacking in venueswhich offered genuine German fare.To correct this serious state of affairshe produced the Holiday Inn GoldenMile, out of which has grown one ofHong Kong's first delicatessens, theDelicatessen Corner, the Vienna Cafeand the Baron's Table Restaurant,The key to the Hotel's "Germanatmosphere" is the smokehouse,essentially a stainless steel closet sixfoot square and eight feet high, builtinto the hotel's kitchens, Measuredquantities of "Sagemehl", the Germanword for wood shavings, are strewnon the floor of the smokehouse, setalight and left to smoulder, and oncethe smoke begins to rise the items tobe smoked are hung inside.The Golden Mile's smokehouse nowproduces 500 to 600 lbs of smokedproduce per day including 43 varietiesof sausage, fish, beef, all kinds of hamsand various meats, all done totraditional Austrian or German recipes.According to Jill Kluge, ManagerPublic Relations at the Holiday InnGolden Mile the, Delicatessen Corneris a genuine German deli, packed withGerman hams and sausages, andwithout the items you'd expect tofind in an English or American styledeli."The Holiday Inn Delicatessen was100,000 chess computers a year (continued from p.46)Novag because we sell in U.S. dollars.Last year, when the U.S. dollar washigh, that was a handicap—this yearthe dollar being low is a big advantage,"he said.However, Novag's activities are notconfined solely to chess computers.program. Within the next few monthswe will have it on the market. Thereare 1.2 billion Chinese, but I hopenot everybody will want one or elseI won't be able to deliver."But demand for chess computers,Novag ones or otherwise, seems toThe company also produces an have reached a steady level andelectronic version of the Japanesegame, Gomoku, and a computerisedChinese Chess set is currently in thefinal stages of development."We are just finished with thealthough some people say the marketis saturated Peter Auge doesn't thinkso,"The cake doesn't get much bigger,but it's a steady cake and we have itevery year. There are always newkids, or adults, who want to have achess computer, so business is steady,"he said.The big problem, Auge says, isthat you have to come up with threeor four new models, even though thecurrent ones work perfectly welland people can't beat them."But you know, my people aregetting quite good at it," he said,with a chuckle.D48 THE BULLETIN MAY 1986