The Hong Kong chef who quit teaching to wow Paris diners with Cantonese food (opens in new tab)

Thirty-one-year-old Luke Ng Cheuk-hang has travelled around the world in search of culinary inspiration. The Hong Kong-born chef, who is currently based in Paris, has cooked in kitchens across France, the UK, Ukraine, Japan and Hong Kong. Yet at Chez Elisa, the Parisian bistro where Ng is head chef, it is his Cantonese dishes – such as his Yangzhou fried rice – that have earned him a loyal following. “Nobody expected the fried rice to be this good,” he says, adding that people usually associa...