Melly was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. She has always enjoyed eating good food, making good food and sharing good food with her loved ones. After a couple years in a corporate career, she realized her passion was for food and left her office job to go back to school to complete a baking diploma.
Her family has been an advocate of searching for delicious Chinese restaurants around vancouver for years. After giving birth to two energetic boys, she hasn’t had the opportunity to enjoy travelling.
Social media became a great way to relief stress after becoming a mom. At any chance there’s a couple hours of free time, she’d go snap foodie photos! When up in the middle of the night, she’d reply messages on Instagram. A repetition of this over two years has grown her followers from a few thousand, to now over 35 thousand to share her love for food!
Despite her love for Chinese food, due to current family dynamics, there hasn’t been an opportunity to fully explore Hong Kong’s food scene. It would be an honor if you can nominate Melly for this amazing trip to Hong Kong! She’d love to share this entire experience with every one in this once in a lifetime food journey.

A digital marketer and an IT project manager by day, and food lovers all the time, my husband, Tony, and I have always been passionate about food.
Since we started dating oh.. 20 years ago (don’t do the math!), food has always been the center of our relationship. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that our love for food brought us together.
Long story short, on our first date at a restaurant in Toronto, I was eyeing Tony’s half-eaten plate and nervously asked him, “are you going to finish that?”. I couldn’t tell if he was impressed or frightened but he’s still with me 20 years and 2 kids later!
We’re grateful for social media platforms like Instagram that allow us to share our passion for food, while showcasing our other loves, photography and writing. Social media has opened doors for us we never thought existed and allowed us to experience food we never would have otherwise. For that, we are thankful.
As much as we love experiencing and tasting different cuisines, however, Asian food is what we always come back to. Being of Vietnamese and Chinese heritage, there is nothing like food from home.
I would absolutely love the opportunity to take our audience through a culinary journey of Hong Kong…and eat Tony’s leftovers! 😉

A dabbler and flâneuse, I am a visual storyteller with a passion for all things music, film, contemporary art, and design. I work as a marketer in the diamond industry by day and enjoy being creative and getting inspired in my spare time.
Something that inspires me greatly is travel. Exploring cities and countries that are new to me is one of my most favourite things to do, and I’ve been very fortunate to visit so many beautiful places around the world.
Other sources of inspiration for me take shape in the form of colours, films (particularly Wong Kar Wai’s oeuvre and films like “Amélie”) and friends. What inspires me shapes my outlook and creative process, and I make sure to always be on the hunt for inspiration so that my creativity does not stagnate.

Hi, My name is Valérie Lévesque and i’m from Quebec in Canada ! I share my love for cute food art and for Asian foods on my Instagram account ( @bentodevalerie ) and on my blog www.lesbentodevalerie.com . My favorite food in Chinese cuisine is Dim Sum, for sure ! I really love the aesthetic and it would be such an amazing opportunity to learn how to cook them with my cute touch !
I’m a foodie and tasting new foods, share it on my social networks and spread the word to my friends about my amazing discoveries is my passion. Being able to visit one of my favorite cities and taste its food in an culinary odyssey… it would be just a dream come true !
I’m a bubbly kind of person ! Always positive and happy ! If I win this odyssey, I promise a lot of Instagram/Facebook live, A lot of food videos and photos and a complete blog review with many blog posts about my experience. It will be just like if you’ve been there with me.
I can’t wait to bring you guys to this trip with me,
Thank you for your support,
Valérie Lévesque