Join us as we welcome Tony Tan back to discuss Hong Kong Cult Recipes with Jennifer Wong, presenter and author of Chopsticks or Fork?.

To eat in Hong Kong is endlessly fascinating and exciting. A mere dot on the map of China, and home to seven million migrants, Hong Kong boasts a food scene that is breathtakingly rich and varied.

Tony Tan explores this vibrant city through 80 exquisite cult dishes, from the cutting-edge contemporary to the traditional, from both the high and low of Hong Kong cuisine – with recipes from the city’s iconic hotels, its hawker stalls, and even a legendary dumpling house on the outskirts of Kowloon. Tony weaves his recipes with stories that trace Hong Kong’s Chinese roots, explore its deep colonial connections and tantalise us with glimpses of today’s ultra-modern city and most delicious eating spots.

6:30pm arrivals for 7pm start.

🥢 Tickets: $10 per person (+ GST and Humanitix fee), redeemable on the night towards any book purchase. Please see staff on the night.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tony Tan describes his earliest, formative food education as an explosion of flavours and ideas akin to a culinary tsunami. Growing up in Kuantan, on the east coast of Malaysia, the son of Hainanese immigrants – a father who ran a rest house and a mother who was an accomplished, endlessly curious cook – he was blessed with an open mind, attentive parents and a dynamic ever-evolving diaspora around him. His Malay neighbours taught him to cook beef rendang, his Peranakan neighbours gave him an appreciation of chicken cooked with buah keluak, and his Indian-Tamil friends showed him how to eat rotis and chapatis.

Across multiple subsequent decades in Australia, the UK and France, through studies of history, language and food, his own restaurants, cooking schools, and food tours, Tan has continued a journey of learning and discovery that endears him to all who know him – and never ends. He lives in the central Victorian town of Trentham, where he runs legendary cooking classes and inspires the next generation of cooks.