My grandparents were from Canton province – my grandfather on my mother’s side escaped China by swimming to Hong Kong – and my parents were born in the city.
I was miserable, I woke up at 7am, had a tutor in the morning and did homework and went to school in the afternoon. My backpack was half my size and after school there was more homework and bed by 11pm. I chose to study in Paris because it was one of my favourite cities and went to the American University of Paris. I didn’t know what I wanted to do except that I was interested in fashion and wanted to be creative. I stayed in Paris for four years and ended up with a double major in business and communications.
I moved to China to be close to my dad’s factory. It focused on food-grade plastic and stainless steel. It was there that I realised the challenges and sacrifices my parents had gone through to keep the factory alive. My dad’s partners had left a big financial hole and they were trying to salvage that.
We did seven projects together in 18 months and it was there that I learned the importance of making high-quality, nutritious, and freshly grown food more accessible in Hong Kong. I worked on it at night and weekends while still doing some of the manufacturing work. I taught myself how to grow things by watching a lot of YouTube videos. After a year, it wasn’t viable, and I ended the lease and for the next 18 months I borrowed spaces – on the rooftop of a restaurant and a friend’s place – to grow things.
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