Chua Lam

Chua Lam (simplified Chinese: 蔡澜; traditional Chinese: 蔡瀾, 18 August 1941 – 25 June 2025) was a Hong Kong columnist, food critic and occasional television host. He was also a film producer for the Hong Kong film studio Golden Harvest. Chua Lam has extensive connections in the cultural world and is well-known to Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, and James Wong Jim, who are collectively considered one of the "Four Great Talents of Hong Kong". From 1989 to 1990, he co-hosted Asia Television's classic adult talk show "Celebrity Talk Show" with the latter two. The show was widely popular with audiences and earned the media accolades as one of "Hong Kong's Three Great Mouths."