VIBErations Episode 34 - Diana Tang

VIBErations podcast Ep 34. Diana Tang at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 8th October 2021

Interviewed during heavy rainstorm...

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BIO

Diana Tang grew up, like many other Hong Kong girls in a traditional Chinese family and studied Sociology at university. She realized that there are many different perspectives to see around the world and HK norms are not the only way to live. Her mother always wanted her to be a civil servant, but she found herself working as a baker and then a cook in Mui Wo before traveling around the world and returning to Hong Kong in the summer of 2019.

Upon her return she had the chance to run a restaurant she named ‘Little Field’ by Cheung Sha Beach and for a year Diana established the brand. Many people think Little Field is a bakery brand, but besides making long-fermented bread, they are actually making a space that allows people to take their time - a space that challenges the impossible - a space that encourages breaking norms. She says that ‘she believes, after all people are looking for happiness and it is important to follow their hearts and not what the society tells them to do’.

10 Questions….

1. Favourite book or author? – ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho

2. Favourite musical artist? - Nujabes

3. Preferred drink? – Water and Tea

4. Life motto? – ‘If you want something to happen enough the universe will conspire to make it happen’

5. Favourite HK walk? - Pak Kung au to Sunset Peak

6. Favourite HK restaurant? – Little Field – her restaurant

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak, what would you do? - Take a photo in case bitten by it

8. Best advice you were given? - Don't bother to argue with idiots

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… To take care of my parents and grandparents

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? - Lantau