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, food critic and occasional television host in Hong Kong and Japan. He was also a movie producer for the Hong Kong movie studio Golden Harvest. The Chaozhou language, also called Teochew, Teochiu, Tiuchiu, or Diojiu, is a dialect of the Chinese spoken variant of Minnan 閩南, spoken in the Chaoshan 潮汕 region of eastern Guangdong 廣東. // Chaozhou is a member of the Southern Min or Minnan dialect group, which in turn constitutes one of the seven major dialect... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 正體字/繁體字, Simplified Chinese: 正体字/繁体字) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw A news presenter is, broadly speaking, a person that presents a news show on television or radio. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. ... Golden Harvest (Chinese: ) SEHK: 1132 is a film production, distribution and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. ...

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. Chaozhou (Chinese: 潮州 lit. ... Shaw Brothers Studio The Shaw Studio (邵氏片場), owned by Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. ...

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). A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. ... Golden Harvest (Chinese: ) SEHK: 1132 is a film production, distribution and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. ... Chan Kong-Sang (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), also known as Jackie Chan Sing Lung (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese martial artist, action star, actor, director, screenwriter, film producer, singer and stunt performer. ... Mr Nice Guy poster Mr Nice Guy (Yatgo ho yan) was a film made in Melbourne in 1997 starring Jackie Chan and directed by Sammo Hung who also makes a cameo as an unfortunate biker, released in 1998 in the United States. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Thunderbolt DVD cover Thunderbolt (霹靂火) (Piklik Foh; Dead Heat in North America) is a 1995 film made in Hong Kong and starring Jackie Chan. ... Sex and Zen is a 1992 Hong Kong erotic film directed by Michael Mak and starring Amy Yip and Lawrence Ng. ... City Hunter is a Japanese manga series created by Tsukasa Hojo in 1980s, later adapted into an anime series by Sunrise. ...

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. Oriental Daily News (東方日報) is a Chinese language newspaper in Hong Kong. ... Next Media Limited (壹傳媒有限公司) is a publisher in Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China. ... Next Magazine may refer to: Next Magazine (Hong Kong) Next Magazine (New York City) ... This article is about the Hong Kong version of the tabloid newspaper. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

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. For his exceptional fluency in Japanese, he enjoys living in Japan where most other visitors cannot experience. He writes about his living experience in many Hong Kong newspapers and magazines. Fuji Television Network, Inc. ... Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai With the above words begins each edition of Iron Chef, a Japanese television program produced by FujiTV. The original Japanese title is Ironmen of Cooking ). It began airing on October 10, 1993 as a half-hour show and after 23 episodes, it was expanded to a...

External links

• IMDB entry
• Goo Movies (Japan)
• Cinemasie
• The New York Times entry