Tuesday, January 06, 2009

The Kitchen of a Legend


This is the kitchen of one of Hong Kong's most famous chefs. The gentleman Li Cheng 李成, in white tee shirt over the stove, is 92 years old, the nephew and student of the last chef of the legendary gourmet 江太史. According to his daughter, he cooks with coal because he doesn't know how to control gas stoves. He is still cooking because he likes to, not because he has to. He has one table in his private home where only people he knows and approves can book a table when the master feels like cooking. Fortunately my dear old friend Allan is one such person. After some serious negotiating (because we had to eliminate quite a few people to fit), we had 13 people going in for a meal to remember.

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