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12.10.2007

all fortune, no cookie

In London, a wealthy pensioner left her entire fortune to the owners of a Chinese restaurant in her will: Elderly Briton leaves fortune to Chinese restaurant owner. Golda "Goldie" Bechal left 10 million pounds (about $20 million) to Kim Sing Man and Bee Lian man, owners of the Essex restaurant Lian, where Bechal had been a patron for many years. While her nephews and nieces claimed that she was of unsound mind when she made the will, and attempted to have her will declared invalid, a judge at London's High Court ruled that the testament was indeed legit. So the Man family gets the money. Man, I guess it pays to know how to serve a really mean plate of pickled leeks and bean sprouts.