Seasonal Photographer X Koon Man Space and Hong Kong International Photography Festival 2024

Chuen Long village is a Hakka village in Tai Mo Shan, the tallest mountain in Hong Kong. It is famous for its winter produce watercress. Now the summer solstice has passed. I am wondering what Chuen Long palette is like when there is no watercress. 

Through interviewing villagers and farmers in Chuen Long, I learnt that they eat chayote and winter melon during summer. To design Chuen Long summer palette, I adopted villagers’ ways of cooking and made canapé out of it. I turned winter melon sweet soup into Japanese Kohakuto and Chuen Long-brewed rice wine into jelly. Chayote tastes best when it is fried with garlic and they were put in tart shells. There is a family-run tofu factory in Chuen Long using mountain water of Tai Mo Shan. I then paired steamed Chuen Long tofu with hishiro, the most ancient seasoning in Japan I fermented for over 30 days. The goal of the Chuen Long palette is to let people taste the truest flavor of the village. I then shared the images I developed using Chuen Long produce.