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Benny chia

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Benny Chia Director and founder of the Fringe Club and Festival awarded the Badge of Honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours List three years ago.

Book: Whatever I'm reading. Currently, I'm reading anything about food because I want to improve the food at the Fringe Club. I'm thinking of introducing a 'comfort hour' after work serving comfort food like like caviar, foie gras, good pate or champagne.

Magazine: Entertainment guides such as The New Yorker, Time Out or Paris Scope to keep me abreast of what's happening. Also Ming Pao Weekly for local gossip: everybody reads it though few admit it.

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Film: Gabriele Axel's Babette's Feast about a woman who returns to her home town and cooks a sumptuous meal she's saved up her whole life for. I think about food all the time and this film is about the intensity and redemptive powers of food, how it overcomes the drudgery of our day-to-day existence.

CD: The soundtrack to the film Milou En Mai (May Fools), especially a track composed by jazz violinist Stephane Grapelli which reminds me of eating al fresco.

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Car: If I didn't live in Hong Kong, a racing green Morgan V8.

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