Let’s start from the beginning. How did you end up in Hong Kong?
My paternal great-grandparents moved [from the former USSR; what would be Ukraine today] to Shanghai in the 1920s, and both my grandparents were born in Shanghai too. My father moved to Hong Kong in the 1970s, and I’ve been in Hong Kong since I was 11 months old. I would spend summers in Tel Aviv [where my family is from], and that was my main exposure to Middle Eastern food. My first taste of fresh hummus was from a street [vendor in Israel]. I am a third culture kid, and my parents