Choi remains secretive about her personals details - she has never revealed her real name, for example - but it is known that she worked as a librarian at the Goethe-Institut before launching her career as a singer-songwriter. She set up her own music imprint, Rewind Records, and worked in relative obscurity until she rose to fame with the help of a little animated pig named McDull.

Her song Gum Gum Gum on the soundtrack to the 2001 movie My Life As McDull was named best original film song at the 24th Hong Kong Movie Awards, and Choi found herself thrust into the limelight.

Choi also voiced the character of schoolteacher Mrs Chan in the movie, but she has never been afraid of being stereotyped as 'the girl from McDull', saying: 'It was good to attract people's attention so that they would at least start listening to my other songs.'

Choi is a true DIY artist, handling everything from songwriting duties to recording and production on her CDs, but at a concert on January 12 she will be enlisting members of local bands, including Monogel and Taitaufat, to bring her sweet, innocent sounds to life on stage.

The sixth Pancakes album, 1,2,3,4,5,6, Cheese! was released recently with very little promotion and while Choi performs more than a dozen shows a year, she does so with little fanfare, preferring to stay under the radar of the mainstream.

Or, as she puts it: 'I feel like I am making music on another island, with other independent bands and musicians, near the continent of mainstream music but still connected by a little bridge.'

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