Chef
David Lai
Chef-Owner, Neighborhood
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Portrait of David Lai
i. Biography
David Lai is the Hong Kong-based chef-owner of Neighborhood, a restaurant on Hollywood Road in Central, Hong Kong, which he opened in 2014. The restaurant’s cooking is described as simple, seasonal, and largely French-leaning, shaped by Lai’s early inspiration from Alice Waters at Chez Panisse and training/work experience in San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2022, Lai received the Inedit Damm Chefs’ Choice Award from Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants.
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