Keeping Traditions Alive

Members of the Tatler community recall their favourite Chinese New Year traditions from childhood in this month’s edition of Time Travel

By Tara Sobti

MELINDA ZEMAN Founder, Boochier jewellery label “I moved from the UK to Hong Kong at the age of six and lived with my [Chinese] grandmother, who didn’t speak a word of English. As a young child, who didn’t speak a word of Cantonese at the time, I remember bonding with my grandmother over cooking and eating. One particular memory that sticks out was our annual CNY family gathering at the Jumbo Seafood Restaurant. The [recent] closing of this restaurant was especially sad for me, as it was a place that held so many of my best childhood memories. Almost every year, my family would gather at Jumbo—there were more than 100 of us—not just to celebrate each other, but also to celebrate how far we had come since my great-grandfather arrived in…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2023

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