ancestry birth_place birth_date ratings article_title name
hakka hong kong yes 1962 aaa food guide 0 10 -- > motor club 0 5 mobil 0 5 good alan yau
 alan yau
alan yau

alan yau -lrb- -rrb- , obe -lrb- born 1962 , hong kong -rrb- is a london-based restaurateur who is best known for founding the wagamama food chain in the united kingdom .
he was born in sha tau kok , hong kong and moved to king 's lynn , norfolk at the age of 12 with his family , barely able to speak a word of english .
alan yau was awarded the obe in the 2006 new year honour 's list for services to the restaurant industry .
alan yau is also the man behind the leading london chinese restaurants hakkasan and yauatcha , which have each been awarded a michelin star .
in april 2008 , the british magazine `` restaurant '' unveiled its sixth annual global ranking of the 50 best restaurants in which hakkasan was rated 18th .
in april 2009 , yau made his u.s. debut with the opening of hakkasan in the fontainebleau in miami beach , florida .
yau had previously tried to make his u.s. debut in 2006 at new york 's gramercy park hotel , park chinois , but did n't due to external pressures .
his famous chinese chains hakkasan and yauatcha debuted in mumbai , india in 2011 .
in august 2013 , yau collaborated with swire hotels as creative director for a new peking duck restaurant called jing yaa tang at the opposite house in beijing .
it is yau 's first project in mainland china .
in 2014 , alan yau collaborated with monaco restaurant group of giraudi and opened song qi , a gastronomic chinese restaurant in monaco .
alan yau is also a director of thai restaurant busaba eathai , which has 11 branches in london .
his other projects include a chinese noodle bar named cha cha moon , which opened in mid-2008 , princi london , in collaboration with rocco princi , and more recently babaji pide salonu , an istanbul pide salonu .
upcoming projects include the duck + rice english pub with a chinese kitchen and park chinois dinner and dancing .
