Hong Kong movie star Simon Yam Tat Wah has won praise after quietly paying for a fan’s meal following a chance encounter at a restaurant.<\/p>\n
While the 71-year-old is known for his acclaimed film career, he is equally admired for his humility and warmth.<\/p>\n
Recounting the experience in a Threads post on July 15, the fan said he and a friend first spotted Yam while the actor was parking his car.<\/p>\n
“As we were looking at him, he gave us a thumbs up, so we knew we hadn’t mistaken him for someone else,”\u00a0he wrote.<\/p>\n
They crossed paths again in a lift, where the fan told Yam he had been rewatching the 2005 thriller Election, in which the actor played Lam Lok, chairman of the Wo Shing Society triad.<\/p>\n
The two chatted briefly, with Yam mentioning that he was on his way to meet friends for dinner.<\/p>\n
“When we got out, I asked if we could take a photo together, and he happily obliged,”\u00a0the fan wrote.<\/p>\n
As it turned out, they were headed to the same restaurant.<\/p>\n
By coincidence, the fan and his friend were seated just outside the private dining room where Yam and his companions were dining.<\/p>\n
“As he walked past, Brother Wah casually grabbed one of my fish cakes and ate it! I almost scolded him, but let it slide,”\u00a0the fan joked.<\/p>\n
The real surprise came after they had finished their meal.<\/p>\n
As they approached the counter to pay, they were told that Yam had already settled the bill.<\/p>\n
“Here I was thinking you owed me for that fish cake you ate, but it turns out I was the one who ate an entire meal on your tab,” the fan wrote.<\/p>\n
He ended the post with a playful nod to Election, writing: “The Wo Shing Society is in action. Lok Sir, you\u2019re the best!”<\/p>\n
The post has since gone viral, racking up more than 20,300 likes at press time.<\/p>\n
Netizens flooded the comments with praise for Yam, describing him as humble and approachable.<\/p>\n
Others also shared their own encounters with the actor, recalling how down-to-earth\u00a0he had been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong movie star Simon Yam Tat Wah has won praise after quietly paying for a fan’s meal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,13210,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-534475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-na","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}