Call it an unexpected check off the bucket list or a pinch me, I’m not dreaming moment. I finally got to meet up with Alyson Hau in Hong Kong.

Hau is a radio host at RTHK Radio 3 and the program she hosts is Common Room.

I have known her for about two decades when I listened to Hong Kong radio stations online. She started at Metro Broadcast, then to Commercial Radio’s AM channel, HMV 864 and then to RTHK where she has been since.

We got to meet up at a restaurant on ELEMENTS shopping mall, located on West Kowloon. The restaurant went was Joia Restaurant Bar & Lounge. Since I had been eating a lot of dim sum and Hong Kong foods, I needed a break from it. Joia serves Italian cuisine food. I was worried about dealing with dairy products, I chose the buffet and steak, which you will see in the photos below.

It was fun chatting with Hau as we talked a lot of great things from her family to where I checked out in Hong Kong and her radio and media programs. She is a mom as she deals with two wonderful girls and soon to have a third child on the way.

It was an honour to meet up and have the time in her schedule because of the support when tuning in to her radio shows. I gave her a quintessential Canadian item and it’s the Hudson’s Bay Stripe socks. Another one was a Polaroid photo.

It’s another great moment in my Hong Kong trip in August and September. You can check the photos below.

Call it a funny timing with the late entries with my Hong Kong trip. October 10th is her birthday. Happy Birthday, Alyson!

Photos

With Alyson Hau

Joia Restaurant

Video
The season finale from RTHK’s All Being Well. While in Hong Kong and at a quarantine hotel, I was looking forward to watching it on RTHK’s TV but it got relegated to YouTube.