Grace Choy
Hong Kong chef
Grace Choy (traditional Chinese: 蔡孫美華; simplified Chinese: 蔡孙美华; born 1967) is a Hong Kong chef.
Early life
Choy was born in 1967 in New Territories, Hong Kong. She has four brothers and one sister and is the second-youngest of the siblings. Her parents ran a business selling mahjong sets and tables, but her father died when she was five years old. Her mother raised six children by herself. Choy received a diploma in secretarial information management at a university in the United Kingdom. Choy did administrative work for 10 years. She married Ken in 1998 and moved with him to Guangdong and Northeast China, assisting him with his Mainland Chinese business. She returned to Hong Kong in 2006 and joined Miele as an administrator in 2008 where she worked for two years.
Career
Choy started her restaurant after she had been fired three times from various office jobs, after which she was diagnosed with ADHD.
Choy started a 16-seat restaurant in Yuen Long in 2011.
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