1. Chua Lam is a Singaporean columnist, food critic, and occasional television host based in Hong Kong.
14 Facts About Chua Lam
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Chua Lam was a movie producer for the Hong Kong movie studio Golden Harvest.
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Chua Lam is primarily known in Japan as a judge on the Fuji TV series Iron Chef.
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Chua Lam was a columnist on Oriental Daily in Hong Kong.
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Chua Lam later switched to writing columns for the Next Media's publications, namely Next Magazine, Apple Daily and Eat and Travel Weekly.
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Chua Lam has written a number of books and restaurant guides on Hong Kong in Japanese.
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In recent years, Chua Lam has organized special tours in Asia and around the world to sample the best local speciality food.
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Chua Lam 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.
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One of Chua Lam's most beloved dishes is stir-fried bean sprout with fried tofu and fish sauce.
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Chua Lam is famous for advocating the use of pork drippings in food preparation and as a condiment.
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Chua Lam has cited and promoted the usage of pork fat in most of his TV shows.
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Chua Lam's father worked in a high-ranking post at the Shaw Brothers Studio and died in 1997.
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Chua Lam was a student in Japan and lived there for several years.
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Chua Lam holds Singaporean citizenship, although he has been based in Hong Kong since 1963.