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Chan Ling-lei

Hong kong entertainer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ9182544
Source-derived summary

Brianna Chan Ling-lei (Chinese: 陳伶俐) is a Hong Kong television artist and television presenter. She participated in the 1985 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and after not winning in the pageant joined TVB.

In 2018, Chan and her husband opened a Singaporean restaurant in Causeway Bay, introducing the local delicacy, claypot frog congee, to Hong Kong. The restaurant temporarily closed after opening on November 8, 2020.

Personal life

Yan married Andrew Lam Man Chung in 1998, and they had two sons. Their marriage ended in divorce in 2008. She married Lau Chung-ming in 2012, and they had a son.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chan Ling-lei” as hong kong entertainer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2018, 2020, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-01-04. The account is most persuasive where Chan, Ling-lei and Hong can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as hong kong entertainer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9182544. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2018, 2020 and 1998.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Chan Ling-lei” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.