60417 The standard of Indian food in Hong Kong is said to be as high as the Chinese cuisine.
60418 Many Indian restaurants or Indian-affiliated businesses are located on Hollywood Road in the Central District, where the police station was located in the early colonial days.
60419 Raji Sitar, who with his family runs a trading company dealing in electrical appliances and watches on a corner of this street, was born in Hong Kong.
60420 He was brought up by a Chinese maid and attended an elementary school for Hong Kong children, so his Cantonese is native level and he can understand Mandarin as well.
60421 His father, Kei Sitar, was born in India and came to Hong Kong, where his elder brother was, soon after the war.
60422 In the 1950s he opened a Western clothing shop in Japan targeting American military personnel, and his Japanese is still good.
60423 He came back to Hong Kong after that and established the present company.
60424 Raji began helping out at his father's company with two of his brothers after graduating from university in the U.S.
60425 Currently, their company owns factories that make electrical appliances, such as cassette radios and also watches in Guangdong Province, China and exports to the U.S. and other countries.
60426 Raji makes monthly trips to China, visiting such places as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and they have plans to ship goods to the interior of China as well.
60427 They are identical to other Hong Kong entrepreneurs that have set up bases in China.
60428 Raji is the former head of the Indian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, made up of approximately one thousand Indian-affiliated and other companies.
60429 Last year he visited Beijing as one of the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce.
60430 He also discussed post-1997 political issues with the Chinese government, including protecting the rights of Indian residents and Indian-affiliated companies.
60431 "Hong Kong should still continue to grow after its reversion to China. Already Hong Kong is not much different than Shenzhen. I'm not at all worried about economic problems."