Eat beat

Hong Kong

Sweet spin on Wimbledon

Does a tart with a white chocolate shell and an inner core filled with a light citrus mousse of lemon confit and lemon basil sauce make you think of ... Wimbledon? Langham pastry chef Matthiew Godard's tennis-themed dessert sets the spherical tart on a "court" of green coconut shavings in honor of the only Grand Slam tournament that's played on grass. The sweet is packaged with a bottle of Champagne Lanson, the official bubbly of Wimbledon for 40 years. Guests who enjoy this treat from now through May 31 have a chance to win two round-trip economy tickets from Hong Kong to London - and a day pass for two at one of the final rounds at the tournament.

Bostonian Seafood and Grill, 8 Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. 852-2375-1133.

United States

Eel-smuggling crackdown

A massive, years-long undercover operation has led to arrests and guilty pleas up and down the US East Coast of poachers and traffickers who dealt in a slippery, squiggly and valuable commodity: baby eels. The Washington Post reports that while the eels are not considered endangered in the United States, restrictions have been set to keep the population strong. In 2011, because of a policy change and a natural disaster, the American eel market began to soar. A year earlier, the European Union had banned the export of eels in fear of the European eel's extinction. That spring, a tsunami devastated Japan's fishing industry. Asian customers turned to the United States for baby eels, which are then raised in tanks and turned into barbecue.