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Grace Choy (traditional Chinese: 孫美華; simplified Chinese: 孙美华) is a celebrity chef, award-winning author and a contributing writer.

Grace & ChoyChoy

Choy and Choy's restaurant ChoyChoy reported as the

  • Hong Kong’s 10 best private kitchens by CNN
  • Five of the best Hong Kong hidden private kitchens by SCMP
  • Chinese Cuisine that Hong Kong celebrities love by Vogue Japan
  • Queen of the Hidden Restaurant World by GQ Japan and other core media around the world.

ChoyChoy is also the most liked Chinese Restaurant on Facebook with 1,000,000 followers.

Award Winning Cookbook

In 2018, Choy published her cookbook through Kickstarter and it became one of the most successful funded cookbook on the platform with over 500% funded. This Cookbook was reported by China Daily and SCMP.

The Cookbook was shipped to 26 countries around the world.

The Cookbook won the championship of Best Woman Chef Book Award of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The Gourmand Awards have been compared to the “Oscars” for film. They are inspired by the Olympic Games and their spirit.

Contributing Writer

Choy is now contributing writer for:

Early life and early career

Choy was born in New Territories, Hong Kong. She received a degree in secretarial information management at a university in the United Kingdom. Choy worked as a secretary for 10 years. She married Ken in 1998 and moved with him to Guangdong and Northeast China, assisting him with his Mainland Chinese business. She returned to Hong Kong in 2006 and joined Miele as an administrator in 2008 where she worked for two years.

Career

Choy started a 16-seat restaurant in Yuen Long in 2011. Named ChoyChoy (Chinese: 蔡菜館), the restaurant offered breakfast and light meals. The South China Morning Post said ChoyChoy was one of Hong Kong's top private kitchens. ChoyChoy relocated to Nishi azabu, Tokyo, in 2019.

She in 2018 wrote the cookbook Grace's 60 Recipes, which was awarded "Best Woman Chef Book" by Gourmand Awards in 2019.

References

  1. Hannam, Keshia (2016-06-13). "Hong Kong's 10 best private kitchens". CNN. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  2. "Five of the best Hong Kong hidden private kitchens". South China Morning Post. 2015-08-05. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  3. Inukai, Yumiko (2019-07-16). "香港セレブも夢中の優しい中華──「チョイ チョイ キッチン」。【犬養裕美子の食ガイド】". Vogue Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  4. 小石原はるか (2019-06-09). "隠れ家レストラン界の女王が西麻布にやってきた！グレース・チョイに突撃インタビュー". GQ JAPAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  5. 李虹睿. "New book: Try 60 favorites from a Hong Kong chef". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  6. "Profile | Fired 3 times, Grace Choy found her vocation as chef of her own restaurant". South China Morning Post. 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  7. ^ Kwong, Yuet-kuen 鄺月娟 (2014-12-24). "私房女強人" [Private kitchen strong woman]. East Week (in Chinese).
  8. ^ Yao, Shun 姚舜 (2023-07-22). "名．店．新．菜－香港私房菜女王Grace Choy客座紫艷中餐廳" [Name. Shop. New. Cuisine－Grace Choy, the Queen of Hong Kong's Private Cuisine, is a guest at Yen Chinese Restaurant]. China Times (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  9. ^ Au-yeung, Hiu-sze 歐陽曉思 (2014-04-26). "賞味：10萬粉絲 村屋飄香" [Appreciation: 100,000 fans, the fragrance of the village house]. Apple Daily (in Chinese). p. E8.
  10. Keshia Hannam, for (13 June 2016). "Hong Kong's 10 best private kitchens". CNN. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  11. "隠れ家レストラン界の女王が西麻布にやってきた！グレース・チョイに突撃インタビュー". GQ JAPAN (in Japanese). 2019-06-09. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  12. "香港セレブも夢中の優しい中華──「チョイ チョイ キッチン」。【犬養裕美子の食ガイド】". Vogue Japan (in Japanese). 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  13. Keshia Hannam, for (13 June 2016). "Hong Kong's 10 best private kitchens". CNN. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  14. "Five of the best Hong Kong hidden private kitchens". South China Morning Post. 2015-08-05. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  15. Ziegler, Owen (2023-06-03). "At Grace Choy's table, a tantalizing portal to Cantonese cuisine". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-03-21.

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