To-date Hangzhou’s delivery food options have been limited to PizzaHut online, a couple of restaurants where if you were lucky and were prepared to pay their return taxi costs or the local Chinese place if you could bludgeon your way through the language barrier.

Not now though, the much hyped Sherpas is now here. We’ve just had our first experiment with it and it worked a treat. Called the hotline, all in English, ordered Curry Bistro ‘by the numbers’, they quoted an hour and fifteen minutes and it came in just under an hour, piping hot.

The restaurant list is limited for now but I, for one, am excited.