{"id":55623,"date":"2026-05-27T07:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=55623"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:49:35","slug":"95-year-old-dim-sum-chef-launches-menu-of-forgotten-items-at-tim-ho-wan-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=55623","title":{"rendered":"95-year-old dim sum chef launches menu of forgotten items at Tim Ho Wan in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hong Kong dim sum restaurant chain Tim Ho Wan has launched a nostalgic dim sum series with the help of 95-year-old veteran master Foo Shing.<\/p>\n

The series recreates five different dim sum dishes built from the chef\u2019s personal recipe records that have almost disappeared from Hong Kong menus, with small adjustments to cater to modern tastes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met Chef Foo at a networking event,\u201d says Cheung Yat-sing, Tim Ho Wan\u2019s global product innovation director. \u201cHe told me he still kept his dim sum recipes, so I flew to Singapore to learn from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foo\u2019s life has been an astonishing one.<\/p>\n

Born in 1931 in Guangdong, he entered the kitchen as an apprentice in Hong Kong at the age of 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really tough life,\u201d he recounts. \u201cWe would wake up at 2am to start work to make dim sum for breakfast that opened at 5am. We\u2019d work all day, and even after we cleaned the kitchens, we still had to help the restaurant make food deliveries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d lay a board on top of the dim sum steaming baskets<\/span> and sleep there, and we\u2019d wake up at 2am and start all over again. Sometimes, we\u2019d only get two hours of sleep a night.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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