Chicken Club Sandwich

Sandwiches are the easiest snack. fast, comforting, and satisfying.

Ever since I was old enough to order Champagne, the combination of a club sandwich and a great, slightly old, yeasty Champagne has been the perfect palliative for many trying moments. If I had just arrived in a hotel, too tired or late to go out for dinner, it’s the right thing.  If I’ve been out to dinner in a strange city, and the food was bad, all I had to do was return to the hotel and call room service.

Unforgettable are the out-all-nights in Hong Kong when I was researching the re-opening of its famous and famously run-down Peak Café. With the sun is rising over the harbor in front of my balcony, with yet another business lunch to be followed by a heavy dinner, I felt safe knowing that when I finally made it back to the Mandarin Hotel, I could rely on its world-perfect twenty-four-hour room service with the BLT and the chicken club on the menu.

They are the night owls and the too-tired-to-go-to-dinner companion. Th…