Tam Kwok Fung

Tam Kwok Fung is Director of Culinary Operations, Food and Beverage at City of Dreams, an integrated entertainment resort developed by Melco Crown Entertainment Limited, an entertainment company listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ: MPEL). Chef Tam is the head chef of multi-award-winning Chinese culinary masterpiece Jade Dragon, including the 2016 Michelin two star award, 2014 and 2015 Michelin one star awards, 2014 and 2015 Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star awards, SCMP’s 100 Top Tables 2014 and 2015, and Food & Wine Magazine’s ‘50 Best Restaurants 2013.’ and the restaurant was also on the Top 20 list of Hong Kong Tatler’s Best Restaurants guides 2014 and 2015.

Chef Tam is also helming Chinese restaurant Pearl Dragon at Studio City, an integrated entertainment resort majority-owned and operated by Melco Crown Entertainment. He also oversees Ying at Altira Macau, another world-class hotel property operated by Melco Crown Entertainment, which attained one star rating in the Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macau in 2009. Chef Tam brought to Ying unequaled skills in Chinese cooking earned throughout over 30 years of experience in Cantonese fine dining. His culinary career has seen him work across China, Hong Kong and Thailand, where he routinely prepared a variety of traditional and contemporary Cantonese dishes for the royal families of Thailand, Japan and Nepal as well as a host of politicians and presidents.

Chef Tam was Executive Chinese Chef at The Peninsula in Bangkok from 1999 to 2005 and, under his helm, the hotel’s Mei Jiang restaurant was repeatedly named “Best Chinese Restaurant” by Metro magazine and Dining and Entertainment magazine. In 2005, Chef Tam was also awarded with Gold Medal at the fifth World Championship of Chinese Cooking, arguably the most preeminent award for Chinese cooking.

Chef Tam’s extensive range of culinary creations at City of DreamsinMacauis inspired by regional dishes from across the Canton province. He is dedicated to producing authentic flavors and preserving the body’s balance and health as enhanced by the finest organic produce and extraordinary traditional Chinese culinary techniques.