Background
His father worked in a high-ranking post at the Shaw Brothers Studio and his father died in 1997.
蔡澜蔡瀾
His father worked in a high-ranking post at the Shaw Brothers Studio and his father died in 1997.
He was also a movie producer for the Hong Kong movie studio Golden Harvest. Chua Lam"s father, Chua Boon Suan (蔡文玄), hailed from the Jio Mung Chua (蔡門石) village in Chaozhou, and later migrated to Singapore. Chua Lam is currently based in Hong Kong.
Chua was a producer of several movies for Golden Harvest, including several films for Jackie Chan.
Chua was a columnist on Oriental Daily in Hong Kong. Chua later switched to writing columns for the Next Media"s publications, namely Next Magazine (on movies and a restaurant guide), Apple Daily and Eat and Travel Weekly.
All columns have continued as of 2007. In recent years (2005 - current), Chua has organized special tours in Asia and around the world to sample the best local speciality food.
Chua often writes, in his newspaper columns, about the tours" organizing trips where he and others sample food from four or five restaurants per day in order to select the best restaurants.
Chua has written a number of books and restaurant guides on Hong Kong in ese. Chua is primarily known in as a judge on the Fuji television series Iron Chef. Chua studied as a student in and lived there for several years.
One of his most beloved dishes is stir fried bean sprout with fried tofu and fish sauce.
Chua is famous to advocate the use of pork dripping in food preparation and as a condiment. He has cited and promoted the pork fat usage in most of his.
"Choose to do something and you have a 50/50 chance of succeeding. Choose to do nothing and you will definitely fail." "Happiness comes from sacrificing a bit of your health".
"Long live cholesterol!" "膽固醇萬歲!".
Quotations:
"Choose to do something and you have a 50/50 chance of succeeding. Choose to do nothing and you will definitely fail."
"Happiness comes from sacrificing a bit of your health".
"Long live cholesterol!" "膽固醇萬歲!".