Wonder if anybody knows Chow Yun Fat, one of the most famous Hong Kong movie star and starred in the hugely successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, was born on Lamma? LA Times Magazine has made an interview with him several years back.
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Chow has come to the pier today to catch a ferry and show me Lamma Island, where he grew up. A few years ago, Lamma was home to hippies from the West. Today, if there are slackers anywhere in Hong Kong, they live, locals are convinced, on Lamma. When the boat docks, one of the first people we see is Chow's elderly mother, at a table with three friends, slapping down purple-and-white ivory mah-jongg tiles. "Her doctor says mah-jongg is what keeps her alive," Chow beams.
Round tables line the shore. Behind them are banks of aquariums, full of groupers and cuttlefish, shrimp and abalone and geoduck. These seafood restaurants won't come to life until the wave of tourists arrives over the weekend. Walking down a trail--cars are barred on the island--Chow scans the line of shops and mutters, "It's become so commercialized." As he says this, we pass beneath rows of blue and yellow pennants, each picturing him in a white dinner jacket, black hair impeccably slicked back, advertising "God of Gamblers Returns." .....
Round tables line the shore. Behind them are banks of aquariums, full of groupers and cuttlefish, shrimp and abalone and geoduck. These seafood restaurants won't come to life until the wave of tourists arrives over the weekend. Walking down a trail--cars are barred on the island--Chow scans the line of shops and mutters, "It's become so commercialized." As he says this, we pass beneath rows of blue and yellow pennants, each picturing him in a white dinner jacket, black hair impeccably slicked back, advertising "God of Gamblers Returns." .....
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When I was younger (and wiser), I knew that Chow was brought up on an island, but I thought that was Cheung Chau then. Until very very late. 
