Chua Lam
Chua Lam | |||||||||||
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蔡瀾 | |||||||||||
Chua in 2008 | |||||||||||
| Born | 18 August 1941 | ||||||||||
| Died | 25 June 2025 (aged 83) Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Occupations | Columnist, food connoisseur, film producer, television presenter | ||||||||||
| Spouse | Chang Chong-wen (張瓊文) | ||||||||||
| Children | Nil | ||||||||||
| Parent(s) | Chua Boon-suan (1907 - 1995) Hung Fong-ping (1909 - 2008) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蔡瀾 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 蔡澜 | ||||||||||
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Chua Lam (simplified Chinese: 蔡澜; traditional Chinese: 蔡瀾, 18 August 1941 – 25 June 2025) was a Hong Kong columnist, food critic and occasional television host. He was also a film producer for the Hong Kong film studio Golden Harvest.
Chua Lam has extensive connections in the cultural world and is well-known to Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, and James Wong Jim, who are collectively considered one of the "Four Great Talents of Hong Kong". From 1989 to 1990, he co-hosted Asia Television's classic adult talk show "Celebrity Talk Show" with the latter two. The show was widely popular with audiences and earned the media accolades as one of "Hong Kong's Three Great Mouths."