{"id":98693,"date":"2026-07-07T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/98693\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:55:11","slug":"a-world-of-fusion-swiss-hong-kong-chef-jacques-kagi-plates-up-his-history-in-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/98693\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A world of fusion\u2019: Swiss-Hong Kong chef Jacques Kagi plates up his history in new role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many have come to know chef Jacques Kagi as the doppelganger of Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong Chau-sang<\/a>. But there is so much more to this Swiss-Hong Kong chef than this uncanny resemblance.After working at various high-profile restaurants in Hong Kong hotels, including The Peninsula and Conrad Hong Kong, Kagi was recently appointed as the new culinary director of CulinArt 1862<\/a>, a restaurant opened by the Hong Kong and China Gas Company (Towngas), in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island.<\/p>\n

Fluently cracking jokes in Cantonese, English and German in the kitchen, Kagi, who was born and raised in Hong Kong to a Swiss father and a Chinese mother, is a reflection of his multicultural upbringing.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up in Hong Kong in a mixed family with a Western father and a Chinese mother, I grew up in a world of fusion,\u201d he says. \u201cBased on these life experiences, and also from my work experiences in China, I wanted to create a menu that celebrates this kind of history on a personal level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe interior of CulinArt 1862, the restaurant and culinary school in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Photo: CulinArt 1862How Jacques Kagi built a culinary foundationThis world of fusion was practically hard-wired into him. Kagi\u2019s father was heavily involved in Hong Kong\u2019s hotel and tourism industry during the 1960s and 70s, a golden era when Swiss hospitality<\/a> professionals flooded the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many have come to know chef Jacques Kagi as the doppelganger of Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong Chau-sang.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[48929,48933,48952,48940,48930,48943,48949,48938,3260,48950,48951,48936,48928,48935,48944,48937,48942,48934,48945,48946,41,48941,38028,48948,48947,17,48932,598,48931,48939],"class_list":["post-98693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-anthony-wong","tag-causeway-bay","tag-conrad-hong-kong","tag-cooking-beauties","tag-culinart-1862","tag-emmanuel-souliere","tag-fusion-food","tag-gaddis","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-chefs","tag-hong-kong-fine-dining","tag-hong-kong-restaurants","tag-jacques-kagi","tag-mandarin-oriental","tag-new-life-psychiatric-rehabilitation-association","tag-nicolinis","tag-reflexion-natural-dining","tag-regent","tag-sichuan-cuisine","tag-sichuan-food","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-chau-sang","tag-swiss-cuisine","tag-swiss-fusion-food","tag-swiss-restaurant","tag-switzerland","tag-the-hong-kong-and-china-gas-company","tag-the-peninsula","tag-towngas","tag-tvb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}