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It has been over a year of Covid-19 in Hong Kong and it can sometimes feel hard to remember what life was like before the pandemic. But, with the vaccine rollout currently forging ahead, there is hope that those times aren’t lost forever, and that we won’t be eternally stuck in a world of Zoom meetings, social distancing and face masks.
Luckily, we live in a city where we have multiple vaccine brands available to us and the process is quick and free of charge. The vaccines are exciting for us, and with summer approaching and low Covid-19 numbers being reported, it s given us all hope that Hong Kong is finally on the road to recovery. One day soon, we’ll find ourselves doing what we were doing just two years ago.
January 26, 2021
Chef Kwong Wai-keung at The Langham, Hong Kong.
South China Morning Post
Tell us about your childhood.
“I left school at the age of 14. I was one of eight siblings, which was considered normal then; if you had only four children, people thought you were a small family. So my father had to work hard. All my siblings finished secondary school, except me.”
How did you get into cooking?
“I wasn’t particularly studious, but I didn’t have terrible grades. At that time you either fixed cars or cooked. With cooking you could earn HK$180 (S$31) including tips: you could watch a movie for HK$3; a hot dog was a few cents.
‘Nobody Gets Out of This Stronger’ Says Langham Hotels CEO
Bloomberg 1/12/2021 Nikki Ekstein
(Bloomberg) A company known primarily for its big-city hotels with a business-leaning bent, Langham Hospitality Group would seem among the most exposed to Covid-19’s economic wrath.
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But under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Stefan Leser, the company is seeing a grab bag of highs and lows that include the most ambitious expansion pipeline in the brand’s history, new properties whose reservations managers are busy with requests from people who may not be able to actually visit, and a strong business in China where hotels saw larger revenues in the back half of 2020 than they did in January, before the pandemic sent travelers away. (Wuhan locked down on Jan. 23, with further mainland China restrictions following a few days later, only marginally affecting that month’s revenues.)