Сингапурлық гастроном және сыншы Чуа Лам өмірі мен қызметі

Singaporean columnist, food critic and television host

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

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). Chua is primarily known in Japan as a judge on the Fuji TV series Iron Chef.

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. Chua has written a number of books and restaurant guides on Hong Kong in Japanese. 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.

Year Title1985Heart of Dragon1986Dr. Yuen and Wisely1987Armour of God1987Born to Gamble1987Killer's Nocturne1987Erotic Ghost Story1988Profiles of Pleasure1988Peacock King1989Four Loves1990A Sau loh1991Robotrix1991Erotic Ghost Story II1991Au revoir, mon amour1991Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky1992Erotic Ghost Story III1992The Cat1993City Hunter1993Crime Story1994Girls Unbutton1994Chinese Torture Chamber1994Spirit of Love1995Trilogy of Love1995Thunderbolt1995The Christ Of Nanjing1996The Imp1997Mr. Nice Guy1998Extreme Crisis

One of Chua's most beloved dishes is stir fried bean sprout with fried tofu and fish sauce. Chua is famous for advocating the use of pork drippings in food preparation and as a condiment. He has cited and promoted the usage of pork fat in most of his TV shows.

Chua's father, Chua Boon Hean (蔡文玄), was a native of the Jio Mung Chua (蔡門石) village in Chaozhou who immigrated to Singapore. His father worked in a high ranking post at the Shaw Brothers Studio and died in 1997. Chua was a student in Japan and lived there for several years. Chua holds Singaporean citizenship, although he has been based in Hong Kong since 1963.