Background
A Hakka, he was born in Sha Tau Kok, Hong Kong and moved to King"s Lynn, Norfolk at the age of 12 with his family, barely able to speak a word of English.
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A Hakka, he was born in Sha Tau Kok, Hong Kong and moved to King"s Lynn, Norfolk at the age of 12 with his family, barely able to speak a word of English.
Alan Yau was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year Honour"s List for services to the restaurant industry. Alan Yau is also the man behind the leading London Chinese restaurants Hakkasan and Yauatcha, which have each been awarded a Michelin Star. In April 2008, the British magazine Restaurant unveiled its sixth annual global ranking of the 50 Best Restaurants in which Hakkasan was rated 18th.
In April 2009, Yau made his United States. debut with the opening of Hakkasan in the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, Florida.
Yau had previously tried to make his United States. debut in 2006 at New York"s Gramercy Park Hotel, Park Chinois, but didn"t due to external pressures. His famous Chinese chains Hakkasan and Yauatcha debuted in Mumbai, India in 2011.
In August 2013, Yau collaborated with Swire Hotels as creative director for a new Peking duck restaurant called Jing Yaa Tang at The Opposite House in Beijing. lieutenant is Yau’s first project in mainland China.
In 2014, Alan Yau collaborated with Monaco Restaurant Group of Giraudi and opened Song Qi, a gastronomic Chinese restaurant in Monaco.
Alan Yau is also a director of Thai restaurant Busaba Eathai, which has 11 branches in London. His other projects include a Chinese noodle bar named Cha Cha Moon, which opened in mid-2008, Princi London, in collaboration with Rocco Princi, and more recently Babaji Pide Salonu, an Istanbul Pide Salonu. Recent projects include The Duck and Rice English public with a Chinese kitchen and Park Chinois dinner and dancing.