Chua Lam

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chua.

Chua Lam (also known as Tsai Lan, Teochew: Chùa Lāng) (simplified Chinese: 蔡澜, traditional Chinese: 蔡瀾, Japanese: チョイ・ラン) (born 1941 in Singapore) is a columnist writer, food critic and occasional television host in Hong Kong and Japan. He is also a movie producer for the Hong Kong movie studio Golden Harvest.

Contents

1 Background
2 Movie producer
3 Writer
4 Japan
5 External links

Background

Chua Lam's father, Chua Boon Suan, hailed from the Jio Mung Chua (蔡门石) village in Chaozhou, and later migrated to Singapore. He worked in a high-ranking post at the Shaw Brothers Studio and died in 1997.

Movie producer

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 2005.

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.

External links

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