Chua Lam

Chua Lam (also known as Mandarin: Tsai Lan, Cantonese: Choi Lan, Teochew: Chùa Lāng) (simplified Chinese: 蔡澜, traditional Chinese: 蔡瀾, born 1941 in Singapore) is a Singaporean-born Hong Kong columnist, food critic, and occasional television host. He was also a movie producer for the Hong Kong movie studio Golden Harvest.

Chua Lam
蔡瀾
Hong Kong Book Fair 2008, 25-7-2008
Born (1941-08-18) 18 August 1941
Singapore
OccupationColumnist, food critic, film producer, television presenter
Spouse(s)Cheung King-man 張瓊文
Parent(s)Chua Boon Suan (1907-1997)
Hung Fong Ping
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese蔡瀾
Simplified Chinese蔡澜
In this Chinese name, the family name is Chua (蔡).

Background

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. His father worked in a high-ranking post at the Shaw Brothers Studio and his father died in 1997. Chua Lam is currently based in Hong Kong.

Film production

Chua was a producer of several movies for Golden Harvest, including several films for Jackie Chan. Notable films include Mr. Nice Guy (credited as executive producer), Thunderbolt (credited as producer), Sex and Zen and City Hunter (credited as producer).

Writer

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.

Tour organizer

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.

Japan

Chua has written a number of books and restaurant guides on Hong Kong in Japanese. Chua is primarily known in Japan as a judge on the Fuji TV series Iron Chef. Chua studied as a student in Japan and lived there for several years.

Filmography
Year Title
1985Heart of Dragon
1986Dr. Yuen and Wisely
1987Armour of God
1987Born to Gamble
1987Killer's Nocturne
1987Erotic Ghost Story
1988Profiles of Pleasure
1988Peacock King
1989Four Loves
1990A Sau-loh
1991Robotrix
1991Erotic Ghost Story II
1991Au revoir, mon amour
1991Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1992Erotic Ghost Story III
1992The Cat
1993City Hunter
1993Crime Story
1994Girls Unbutton
1994Chinese Torture Chamber
1994Spirit of Love
1995Trilogy of Love
1995Thunderbolt
1995The Christ Of Nanjing
1996The Imp
1997Mr. Nice Guy
1998Extreme Crisis

TV shows

Gastronomic philosophy

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 TV shows.

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