Hello ! I'm Alex from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 , studied bachelor in Taiwan 🇹🇼 for 4 yrs, currently being an exchange student in Estonia 🇪🇪 .

Before i study in Sociology, i was a chef in a michelin restaurant in HK 👨‍🍳 .

I was also a chairman of an union federation in HK, which was disbanded in 2021, hopefully you know why 🤐 .

I'm good at cooking 🧑‍🍳 , singing 🎤 , and sports ( I have been cycling around and hiking in couple Bai Yue (百岳) in Taiwan 🚵‍♂️, reccently working hard in Table Tennis 🏓) .

I traveled mainly in Asia before, once in Norway when i joined an international cooking competition 11 years ago, this is my second time to travel in Europe.

Lately I'm interested in Buddism, and i have been a monk for a short period in Fo Guang Shan 🧘🙏 .

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I would like to hang with locals, and understand what truly matters to people in different places.

Interests

• singing
• cooking
• reading
• table tennis
• travelling and meeting new people

Music, Movies, and Books

I like Cantonese songs and Taiwanese songs, especially Beyond and Eason Chan (陳奕迅) from HK, and Wubai (伍佰) and EggPlantEgg (茄子蛋) from Taiwan.

I love Stephen Chow (周星馳)'s moive, mostly comedy while sometimes with dark humour. I love the movie To Live (活著) and Let the Bullets Fly (讓子彈飛) in China, which reflated the humanities under a highly pressured circumstance.

In terms of books, I got inspired very much by the Chinese phlilosophy, like Taoism (道家) and I Ching (易經), which indicated some laws of the world and recommonded how people can stay well in the changing world. The Diamond Sūtra (金剛經) also offered me a perspective to let go of some attachment that makes me suffer.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went to North Korea, hanged with the local high school kids, played roller coaster in the theme park, and told the tour guide burger is not invented by Kim Jong-un.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food ( I am good at cooking in eastern and western style ) ;
Story ( Crazy things that happened in kitchens, social movement, North Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China ) ;
Any housework ( I have been worked in the rice field in Yilan for 2 months, know how to use weeder under 40 degrees ; i can blend in my sister's kid's friends group as well )
Singing ( I do busking and performances sometime, i won a 2nd in my university's singing competition last year )

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, China, England, Estonia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Estonia, Hong Kong, Taiwan