security check and customs are usu ally fast and without a problem. If your gate number is between 33 and 80, you have to leave a little time for taking train. If your gate number is in the 500s, you will leave from the North Satellite Concourse and you will have to take a bus, which is only inconvenient if it is raining. This concourse is not as well supplied with shops and entertainment as the others, so make sure you bought everything you needed before going there. There is no lack of shops, restau-rants and bookshops all the way to every gate. Café Deco, with its acclaimed international menu, is one well-established restaurant to have a meeting with colleagues pass ing Hong Kong, or to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi and answer emails. For serious work, one can seek out the pay-in Plaza Premium Lounge, in the West Hall, Departure Level 6, in Terminal 1. Two bookshop chains, Relay and Page One alternatively serve the traveller, while more than 40 lux. ury brands offer the latest fashion through several shops in different places along the way. If you want to have a party, seek out the "Lang Kwai Fong" corner within the DFS Duty Free where taste ings of different spirits are arranged to encourage a participatory shop ping experience. Duty free shops in Hong Kong are not necessarily cheaper than those in town. When you fly in, it is possible to visit the duty free shops to check prices of goods you want to buy, and then check prices in town, so that you get the best deal.