Let us now praise New People’s Party legislator Judy Chan for what appears to be an effort to make sense of the government’s policy on food served in the street or, as the official phraseology has it, “fixed-pitch and itinerant hawker stalls selling food with local characteristics.” In this laudable pursuit, Chan put down a written question to the administration. Indeed, she did not just put down a question, she composed a mega-question. Short story writers have managed with fewer words. After a little warm-up paragraph the question consists of 10 sub-questions, some of them with multiple pron…
