Three Vancouver social media influencers are going to be especially active on social media this week as they try to convince their thousands of followers to crown them as the #TasteHKG ambassador.
Emma Choo, Melly Woo and Nicole Wong are among the seven finalists in the competition to find a social media influencer for Hong Kong’s food scene.
Thirty-four people from across Canada entered the contest sponsored by the Chinese Restaurant Awards and Hong Kong Airlines.
Emma Choo has 29,200 followers on her @vancouverfoodie Instagram page. She is in her final semester at UBC studying sociology and law and society. She describes her mantra as “eat • sleep • rep(Eat).”
Melly Woo is mother of two young children and describes herself as “fashion mommy, food and lifestyle blogger." She has 36,500 followers on her @melly.woo Instagram account.
Nicole Wong spends her days working as a marketer in the diamond industry and has 26.200 Instagram followers at @tokyo_to. She describes herself as an "art and music lover • dabbler and flaneuse • tea and stationery enthusiast.
You can read their profiles on the #TasteHKG voting site.
The winner will be flown business class on one of the new Vancouver-Hong Kong direct flights with Hong Kong Airlines. He or she will spend four nights at the five-star Kerry Hotel Hong Kong, part of the Shangri-La group, and be invited behind the scenes of Hong Kong’s thriving culinary scene. The competition is an intitiative of the Chinese Restaurant Awards, which are being presented March 7 at the River Rock Show Theatre, and Hong Kong Airlines, which begins non-stop flights between Hong Kong and Vancouver in June.
Voting ends March 3 and the winner will be announced at Saturday on the Chinese Restaurant Awards website. Go to Chineserestaurantawards/tastehkg to vote.
