All Fired Up

As physically demanding as restaurant work can be, it’s nothing compared to the training these three chefs endure outside the kitchen

By Charmaine Mok.

Lawrence Mok Trailrunner Chef-owner, IM Teppanyaki On IM Teppanyaki’s website, the quote “we compare ourselves with our old selves, not with others” is the only sentence displayed for Lawrence Mok’s chef biography, along with a list of past roles at Hotel Nikko Hong Kong and Island Shangri-La, and, somewhat incongruously, his two Oxfam Trailwalker championship wins in 2008 and 2009. It’s a little-known fact that Mok is such an accomplished runner; certainly, it’s a detail that has taken a backseat to his reputation as a Chinese chef running one of the city’s most lauded Michelin-starred teppanyaki restaurants. But fitness and food have been two defining elements of his life—Mok has been cooking for more than 30 years and, while he’d been going to the gym since he was 15, only…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2020

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