Update | 'My parents are watching from heaven': Son pays tribute to Hong Kong chef and mother killed on MH17

The only son of a celebrated chef from Hong Kong who died on the downed Malaysia Airlines jet has vowed to carry on his father's Rotterdam restaurant business "with a smile".

Kevin Fan made the online pledge before meeting family and friends yesterday at Asian Glories, his late parents' Chinese restaurant in the Dutch port city.

His father Fan Shun-po, known as Popo, and Malaysian-born mother, Jenny Loh, were among the 298 passengers and crew on board the doomed Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.

Jenny's elderly mother, Tan Siew Po, was also on board the flight which crashed in eastern Ukraine after apparently being brought down by a surface-to-air missile believed to have been fired by pro-Russian separatists.

Dutch investigators yesterday inspected the 272 bodies so far recovered, which had been loaded on to a train in the rebel-held town of Torez.

The United Nations was yesterday poised to adopt a resolution that would condemn the downing of the plane, and demand that those responsible be held accountable.