Big-hearted restaurant owner sells lunch boxes for charity in Lan Kwai Fong

A Sham Shui Po restaurant owner known for distributing free meals to the homeless, poor and elderly, is temporarily setting up shop in Lan Kwai Fong to raise funds for charity.

Chan Cheuk-ming, better known as “Brother Ming”, will be opening a pop-up shop in the business district selling lunch boxes and charity meal tickets in order to fund his philanthropic endeavours from tomorrow, Nov. 17, to Dec. 15 (address below).

The boxes, which will cost a flat rate of HKD32, will be filled with popular dishes from his restaurant Pei Ho like braised tofu and roasted pork rice, stir-fried beef noodles, vegetable vermicelli, and an assortment of side dishes.

At the opening ceremony today, Chan acknowledged that the prices are higher than they would be at Pei Ho, but noted that it was still “a huge bargain” for dining options in Central. Ain’t that the truth.

Not only that, but he also raised the prices from the original proposed price of HKD28 so as not to “steal business from neighbouring restaurants”. What a stand-up guy.

After covering the HKD20 it costs to make each box, every remaining cent will go towards a charity fund which Chan uses to make and deliver free and massively cut-price meals to the needy.

If that extra cash you’re saving by eating one of Chan’s ridiculously affordable lunches is burning a hole in your pocket, why not go the extra mile by buying a charity meal ticket or two from him as well? Each ticket will only set you back HKD24, which is frankly a very small price to pay for the knowledge that one less person will go hungry. 

A total of 300 lunch boxes will be sold daily, and Chan hopes to sell around 40,000 charity meal tickets over the next month. The profits will go towards a charity fund he established in August, which has allowed him to give out 3,000 to 4,000 free meals per month to homeless people, the elderly, the poor, and refugees.

Chan’s philanthropy began in 2008, when he sold HKD5 food vouchers to those in need, which would allow them to redeem a three-item hot meal worth HKD22 at his restaurant.

In the last eight years, he’s branched out to hosting weekly food drives and working with non-profit organisations to deliver free hot dinners and festive snacks to the underprivileged. He even went out to deliver free meals at the end of January this year, when Hong Kong was hit by the lowest temperatures it had seen in 59 years. 

Pei Ho Counterparts Pop-up Shop, 1 Lan Kwai Fong, Central (Google Maps)

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