Chua Lam

Chua Lam (18 August 1941 – 25 June 2025) was a Singapore-born Hong Kong writer, food critic, film producer and television host whose ancestral home was Chaozhou, Guangdong. He studied in Japan in his early years and worked for many years at Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, producing numerous films starring Jackie Chan; he later became known for his food columns and culinary programmes, and was regarded, together with Jin Yong, Ni Kuang and James Wong, as one of the "Four Talents of Hong Kong". His writing consists mainly of essays and miscellany, touching also on culture, inspirational growth and foreign literature. Centred on food, travel and everyday human relations, his clear, easy-going style draws out the pleasures of life and worldly wisdom from a single meal. Representative works include Life's Big Matter: Eating and Drinking, Matters of the Heart, Solved on the Tongue and The World Is Fun. Forty-nine of his works are held in our collection.