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【抗疫必飲】9大強肺茶療

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#記得回顧早前的9大強肺湯水
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肺為五臟之華蓋，「肺主一身之氣」，養好肺功能有助提升體內正氣。當身體有足夠的正氣，邪氣就不能乘虛而入，因此補肺氣是強身防病的第一步。我們早前分享「9大強肺湯水」，很高興受到大家熱烈支持。今次推出「9大強肺茶療」，透過沖泡或煲煮茶療就可達至日常強身效果，紓緩不適症狀，適合居家辦公飲用。每天也可同時飲用米水健脾胃，打好身體底子，試試看吧！

9 herbal teas to strengthen the lungs
Of the human organs, the lungs are positioned highest, and they master the body's qi. Strengthening the lungs can improve qi in the body. When there is enough qi in the body, pathogens cannot attack the body easily. Therefore, nourishing lung qi is the first step to improving immune system. We have previously shared 9 soups to strengthen the lungs and are grateful for the positive feedback. These following 9 herbal teas, can be brewed or boiled, can help to improve the immunity system and relieve discomfort. They are suitable to drink at office or home. You can also have rice water everyday to strengthen the spleen and stomach to strengthen your body. Give it a try!

詳細教學：
【補氣淮山米水】
功效：健脾補氣，紓緩感覺疲倦、容易反覆腹瀉等症狀。
材料：紅米1湯匙、白米1湯匙、生薏米半湯匙、乾淮山15克
做法：材料洗淨，加入800毫升水以武火煮滾後轉文火煮30分鐘即可。此米水可煮後倒入保溫瓶，反覆沖泡至味淡。
【Rice water with Chinese yam】
Effects: strengthens the spleen and nourishes qi, relieves fatigue or frequent diarrhea
Ingredients: 1 tbsp. of red rice, 1 tbsp. of white rice, ½ tbsp. of raw coix seeds, 15g dried Chinese yam
Preparation: Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Combine all ingredients with 800ml of water and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Pour all contents into a thermos and rice water can be re-brewed until flavor weakens.

【黨參白术茯苓茶】
功效：補脾益氣，紓緩肺氣虛弱的咳嗽、呼吸不暢等症狀。
材料：黨參12克、白术9克、茯苓9克
做法：材料洗淨，加入800毫升水以武火煮滾後轉文火煮30分鐘即可。此茶煮後倒入保溫瓶，反覆沖泡至味淡。
備註：感冒咳嗽、有偏熱症狀如喉嚨痛、黃痰等不宜。
【Codonopsis root tea with atractylodes rhizome and poria】
Effects: strengthens the spleen and nourishes qi, relieves cough caused by insufficient lung qi and difficulty breathing
Ingredients: 12g codonopsis root, 9g atractylodes rhizome, 9g poria
Preparation: Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Combine all ingredients with 800ml of water and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Pour all contents into a thermos and tea can be re-brewed until flavor weakens.
Notes: Not suitable for those with cold/flu and cough, heat-related symptoms such as sore throat and yellow phlegm

【無花果沙參燉梨】
功效：生津潤燥，紓緩肺燥乾咳，口乾、無痰或痰黏等症狀。
材料：雪梨1個、杏仁12克、乾無花果2枚、沙參12克、冰糖適量
做法：
1. 除冰糖外，將材料洗淨，雪梨將頂部位置切開，挖去梨芯。沙參切成小段。
2. 在梨中心加入無花果杏仁沙參及冰糖，蓋上梨蓋後用牙籤固定，放入大碗中。
3. 鍋底加入水及蒸架，用武文煮滾水，放入梨，用文火隔水蒸燉1小時即成。
備註：脾胃虛寒、風寒感冒咳嗽人士不宜。
【Steamed pear with radix adenophorae】
Effects: promotes fluid production and relieves dryness, reliees dry lung and dry cough, dry mouth, lack of phlegm or sticky phlegm.
Ingredients: 1 pear, 12g almond, 2 dried figs, 12g radix adenophorae, appropriate amounts of rock sugar
Preparation:
1. Rinse all ingredients except rock sugar thoroughly. Cut off the top of the pear and remove the core. Cut radix adenophorae into pieces.
2. Add in figs, almond, radix adenophorae and rock sugar into the core of the pear. Put the top of the pear back on and stabilize using toothpicks. Place the pear onto a large bowl.
3. Add water to wok and place the steam rack in. Cook on high heat until water is boiling and put in the bowl with pear. Steam on low heat for 1 hour.
Note: not suitable for those with asthenic cold spleen and stomach, cold-wind flu cold cough.

【藿香茯苓陳皮茶】
功效：行氣化濕，紓緩因為痰濕引致的頭身困重、疲倦不堪的症狀。 
材料：藿香6克、白豆蔻3克、茯苓9克、陳皮1角
做法：材料洗淨，加入800毫升水以武火煮滾後轉文火煮30分鐘即可。此茶煮後倒入保溫瓶，反覆沖泡至味淡。
備註：陰虛人士不宜飲用。
【Patchouli tea with poria and dried citrus peel】
Effects: dispels dampness and promotes qi circulation, relieves heaviness of head and body, fatigue due to phlegm and dampness
Ingredients: 6g patchouli, 3g cardamom, 9g poria, 1 dried citrus peel
Preparation: Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Combine all ingredients with 800ml of water and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Pour all contents into a thermos and tea can be re-brewed until flavor weakens.
Note: Not suitable for those with yin deficiency

【桔梗厚樸陳皮茶】
功效：燥濕化痰，紓緩外感引起的胸悶、白天咳嗽較嚴重、痰多色白、肢體睏倦等症狀。
材料：桔梗3克、厚樸6克、杏仁6克、陳皮3克
做法：材料洗淨，加入800毫升水以武火煮滾後轉文火煮30分鐘即可。此茶煮後倒入保溫瓶，反覆沖泡至味淡。
【Radix Platycodi tea with magnolia bark and dried citrus peel】
Effects: dispels dampness and clears phlegm, relieves chest tightness caused by cold/flu, severe cough in the morning, white and excessive phlegm, fatigue
Ingredients: 3g radix platycodi, 6g magnolia bark, 6g almond, 3g dried citrus peel
Preparation: Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Combine all ingredients with 800ml of water and cook on high heat until boiling. Steam on low heat for 30 minutes. Pour all contents into a thermos and tea can be re-brewed until flavor weakens.

【魚腥草甘羅漢果茶】
功效：清熱解毒、化痰止咳，適合煙酒過多、咳嗽有黃綠稠痰、經常熬夜人士飲用。
材料：魚腥草12克、甘羅漢果半個
做法：材料洗淨，甘羅漢果壓扁、魚腥草切段備用。鍋內加入約1500毫升水，放入材料，武火煮滾後調文火煮30分鐘，把茶連渣倒進保溫瓶即可。此茶可反覆沖泡至味淡，建議一星期飲用2-3天。
備註：腎功能不全、尿頻、虛寒體質者及孕婦不宜飲用。
【Monk fruit tea with fishwort】
Effect: clears heat and detoxifies, reduces phlegm and relieves cough. Suitable for those who smoke and drink, with yellow, green and thick phlegm, and with frequent late nights.
Ingredients: 12g fishwort, half of a monk fruit
Method: Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Squash the monk fruit. Cut fishwort into pieces. Combine all ingredients with 1500ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Pour all contents into a thermos and tea can be re-brewed until flavour weakens. For best results, drink consecutively for 2-3 days.
Note: It is not suitable for those with weak kidney function, frequent urination, with asthenic cold body type and pregnant women.

【太子參薄荷茶】
功效：補氣健脾，清利頭目。紓緩氣短、勞累及改善鬱悶心情。
材料：太子參10克、青瓜4片、青檸汁少許、新鮮薄荷葉5-6片、冰糖適量
做法：
1. 除青檸汁和冰糖外，所有材料洗淨，青瓜切片備用。
2. 鍋內加入約800毫升水，放入太子參，以武火煮至水滾，調文火煮約30分鐘，加入青瓜、薄荷葉、冰糖。煮5分鐘，最後下青檸汁調味即可。
【Radix pseudostellariae tea with mint】
Effects: nourishes qi and strengthens the spleen, improves vision and dizziness, and relieves shortness of breath, fatigue and poor mood
Ingredients: 10g radix pseudostellariae, 4 slices of cucumber, a little amount of lime juice, 5-6 slices of fresh mint, appropriate amounts of rock sugar
Preparation:
1. Rinse all ingredients except lime juice and rock sugar thoroughly. Cut cucumber into pieces.
2. Combine radix pseudostellariae with 800ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Then add cucumber, mint and rock sugar to boil for 5 minutes. Add lime juice to taste.

【黨參麥冬防風茶】
功效：補益肺氣。強身防病、紓緩容易反覆感冒體質及鼻敏感症狀。
材料：黨參10克、麥冬10克、防風6克、蜂蜜適量
做法：除蜂蜜外，材料洗淨，加入800毫升水以武火煮滾後轉文火煮30分鐘即可。此茶煮後倒入保溫瓶，反覆沖泡至味淡。
備註：身體有偏熱症狀、感冒未清者不宜飲用。
【Fangfeng tea with codonopsis root and radix ophiopogonis】
Effects: nourishes lung qi, improves immunity system, relieves frequent cold/flu or nasal allergies
Ingredients: 10g codonopsis root, 10g radix ophiopogonis, 6g fangfeng, appropriate amounts of honey
Preparation: Rinse all ingredients except honey thoroughly. Combine dried ingredients with 800ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Pour all contents into a thermos and tea can be re-brewed until flavour weakens.
Notes: Not suitable for those with heat-related symptoms and those recovering from a cold/flu.

【參芪豆豉茶】
功效：補氣固表。紓緩鼻敏感如打噴嚏、流鼻水等症狀。
材料：北芪10克、黨參8克、淡豆豉6克、桂枝3克
做法：材料洗淨，加入800毫升水以武火煮滾後轉文火煮30分鐘即可。此茶煮後倒入保溫瓶，反覆沖泡至味淡。
備註：感冒未清者不宜飲用。
【Seng qi tea with fermented soybeans】
Effects: replenishes qi to protect body, relieves nasal allergies symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose
Ingredients: 10 gastragalus root, 8g codonopsis root, 6g fermented soybeans, 3g cinnamon twig
Preparation: Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Combine all ingredients with 800ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Pour all contents into a thermos and tea can be re-brewed until flavour weakens.
Notes: Not suitable for those recovering from a cold/flu.

【男士診症室】做男人一定要大膽？

#先天不足血虛體質比較怕冒險
#補血記得同時補氣
#星期五湯水

血虛人戒生冷補氣血

【男人檔案 — 驚青朋友】
年齡：20歲
飲食習慣：食無定時
體型特徵：面色青白、唇色淡、皮膚乾燥、便秘、時有頭暈、心悸感覺
性格：膽小、不喜歡冒險

男人心聲：從小到大都不敢看恐怖片，入Camp聽鬼故我都會找機會逃離房間，因為實在太恐怖了，平日遇到突如其來的聲響也容易令我心跳加速，所以每年朋友約我去萬聖節活動我都藉故推搪，朋友都給我取花名叫「驚青」，但我真的怕被嚇到當場暈倒出洋相。

EC分析：容易心悸頭暈伴隨面色青白、皮膚乾燥及容易便秘明顯是屬於血虛體質，「血為氣之母」，氣血關係密不可分，兩者皆為人體的動力，缺乏動力人便會變得心虛膽小，不愛冒險。

EC建議：建議你做「吸血殭屍」，適量進食紅色補血食物如紅豆、紅腰豆、紅棗等，同時要著重補氣，因為先益氣然後能生血，多吃補氣食物如人參、花旗參、紅棗、鵪鶉等；飲用補氣血食材如黨參、黃芪、紅棗、南棗、紅豆、龍眼肉等煲的湯水也有幫助。忌吃生冷、油膩難消化的食物。

番茄雜菜湯
功效：益氣養血，紓緩神疲乏力、氣短、面色偏白等症狀。
材料：番茄4個、洋蔥1個、西芹1根、燈籠椒1個、紅菜頭1個、紅蘿蔔2根、紫椰菜半個、椰菜半個、秋葵4-6條、月桂葉2片、番茄醬4湯匙、茄汁適量、腰果40克
做法：
1. 腰果白鍋炒香備用，所有乾材料洗淨；番茄、洋蔥、西芹、燈籠椒、紅菜頭、紅蘿蔔去皮切大塊備用，紫椰菜、椰菜切大塊備用。
2. 鍋內加入約2500毫升水，除茄汁外放入全部材料，以武火煮至水滾，調文火煮約1.5小時，最後下鹽及茄汁調味即可。

Tips for those with blood deficiency body type

[Male profile- scaredly-cat]
Age: 20
Eating habits: irregular meals
Physical characteristics: pale complexion and lips, dry skin, constipation, often dizzy, heart palpitations
Personality: timid and not adventurous

Thoughts: I have never dared to watch horror movies since I was a kid. When I go to camps, I would not listen to the ghost stories as they are too scary for me. Suddens sounds can easily startle me, so I would not go to Halloween event with my friends. My friends call me a wimp, but I am really afraid of being scared and fainting on the spot.

EC’s analysis: Those prone to heart palpitations, dizziness, pale complexion, dry skin, and constipation obviously have blood deficiency body condition. The relationship between qi and blood is inseparable. Both of them drive human body functions. Lack of either one will make a person timid and not adventurous.

EC’s suggestion:Let’s be a "vampire". Appropriately consume red-coloured ingredients to replenish blood, such as red bean, red kidney bean, Chinese red date. At the same time, pay attention to replenish your body as you need strong qi first to manufacture blood. Eat more ingredients that can replenish qi such as ginseng, American ginseng, Chinese red date, quail. Add ingredients than can replenish qi and blood into soup, such as codonopsis root, astralagus, Chinese red date, jujube dates, red bean, longan. Avoid eating cold/raw food, oily and food that is difficult to digest.

Tomato vegetable soup
Effects: nourishes qi and blood, relieves symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion
Ingredients: 4 tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 celery, 1 sweet pepper, 1 beetroot, 2 carrots, half of a purple cabbage, half of a cabbage, 2 bay leaves, 4 tbsp. tomato paste, appropriate amounts of ketchup, 40g cashews
Preparation:
1. Stir fry cashew without oil in wok until fragrant. Rinse all dried ingredients. Peel tomatoes, onion, celery, sweet pepper, beetroot, carrot and cut into large pieces. Cut purple cabbage and cabbage cut into pieces.
2. Combine all ingredients except tomato sauce with 2500ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 1.5 hours. Add salt and ketchup to taste. 

#男 #血虛 #我畏冷 #便秘 #頭暈

【《金融時報》深度長訪】

今年做過數百外媒訪問，若要說最能反映我思緒和想法的訪問，必然是《金融時報》的這一個，沒有之一。

在排山倒海的訪問裡，這位記者能在短短個半小時裡，刻畫得如此傳神，值得睇。

Joshua Wong plonks himself down on a plastic stool across from me. He is there for barely 10 seconds before he leaps up to greet two former high school classmates in the lunchtime tea house melee. He says hi and bye and then bounds back. Once again I am facing the young man in a black Chinese collared shirt and tan shorts who is proving such a headache for the authorities in Beijing.

So far, it’s been a fairly standard week for Wong. On a break from a globe-trotting, pro-democracy lobbying tour, he was grabbed off the streets of Hong Kong and bundled into a minivan. After being arrested, he appeared on the front pages of the world’s newspapers and was labelled a “traitor” by China’s foreign ministry.

He is very apologetic about being late for lunch.

Little about Wong, the face of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, can be described as ordinary: neither his Nobel Peace Prize nomination, nor his three stints in prison. Five years ago, his face was plastered on the cover of Time magazine; in 2017, he was the subject of a hit Netflix documentary, Joshua: Teenager vs Superpower. And he’s only 23.

We’re sitting inside a Cantonese teahouse in the narrow back streets near Hong Kong’s parliament, where he works for a pro-democracy lawmaker. It’s one of the most socially diverse parts of the city and has been at the heart of five months of unrest, which has turned into a battle for Hong Kong’s future. A few weekends earlier I covered clashes nearby as protesters threw Molotov cocktails at police, who fired back tear gas. Drunk expats looked on, as tourists rushed by dragging suitcases.

The lunch crowd pours into the fast-food joint, milling around as staff set up collapsible tables on the pavement. Construction workers sit side-by-side with men sweating in suits, chopsticks in one hand, phones in the other. I scan the menu: instant noodles with fried egg and luncheon meat, deep fried pork chops, beef brisket with radish. Wong barely glances at it before selecting the hometown fried rice and milk tea, a Hong Kong speciality with British colonial roots, made with black tea and evaporated or condensed milk.

“I always order this,” he beams, “I love this place, it’s the only Cantonese teahouse in the area that does cheap, high-quality milk tea.” I take my cue and settle for the veggie and egg fried rice and a lemon iced tea as the man sitting on the next table reaches over to shake Wong’s hand. Another pats him on the shoulder as he brushes by to pay the bill.

Wong has been a recognisable face in this city since he was 14, when he fought against a proposal from the Hong Kong government to introduce a national education curriculum that would teach that Chinese Communist party rule was “superior” to western-style democracy. The government eventually backed down after more than 100,000 people took to the streets. Two years later, Wong rose to global prominence when he became the poster boy for the Umbrella Movement, in which tens of thousands of students occupied central Hong Kong for 79 days to demand genuine universal suffrage.

That movement ended in failure. Many of its leaders were sent to jail, among them Wong. But the seeds of activism were planted in the generation of Hong Kongers who are now back on the streets, fighting for democracy against the world’s most powerful authoritarian state. The latest turmoil was sparked by a controversial extradition bill but has evolved into demands for true suffrage and a showdown with Beijing over the future of Hong Kong. The unrest in the former British colony, which was handed over to China in 1997, represents the biggest uprising on Chinese soil since the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing. Its climax, of course, was the Tiananmen Square massacre, when hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people were killed.

“We learnt a lot of lessons from the Umbrella Movement: how to deal with conflict between the more moderate and progressive camps, how to be more organic, how to be less hesitant,” says Wong. “Five years ago the pro-democracy camp was far more cautious about seeking international support because they were afraid of pissing off Beijing.”

Wong doesn’t appear to be afraid of irking China. Over the past few months, he has lobbied on behalf of the Hong Kong protesters to governments around the world. In the US, he testified before Congress and urged lawmakers to pass an act in support of the Hong Kong protesters — subsequently approved by the House of Representatives with strong bipartisan support. In Germany, he made headlines when he suggested two baby pandas in the Berlin Zoo be named “Democracy” and “Freedom.” He has been previously barred from entering Malaysia and Thailand due to pressure from Beijing, and a Singaporean social worker was recently convicted and fined for organising an event at which Wong spoke via Skype.

The food arrives almost immediately. I struggle to tell our orders apart. Two mouthfuls into my egg and cabbage fried rice, I regret not ordering the instant noodles with luncheon meat.

In August, a Hong Kong newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist party published a photo of Julie Eadeh, an American diplomat, meeting pro-democracy student leaders including Wong. The headline accused “foreign forces” of igniting a revolution in Hong Kong. “Beijing says I was trained by the CIA and the US marines and I am a CIA agent. [I find it] quite boring because they have made up these kinds of rumours for seven years [now],” he says, ignoring his incessantly pinging phone.

Another thing that bores him? The media. Although Wong’s messaging is always on point, his appraisal of journalists in response to my questions is piercing and cheeky. “In 15-minute interviews I know journalists just need soundbites that I’ve repeated lots of times before. So I’ll say things like ‘I have no hope [as regards] the regime but I have hope towards the people.’ Then the journalists will say ‘oh that’s so impressive!’ And I’ll say ‘yes, I’m a poet.’ ”

And what about this choice of restaurant? “Well, I knew I couldn’t pick a five-star hotel, even though the Financial Times is paying and I know you can afford it,” he says grinning. “It’s better to do this kind of interview in a Hong Kong-style restaurant. This is the place that I conducted my first interview after I left prison.” Wong has spent around 120 days in prison in total, including on charges of unlawful assembly.

“My fellow prisoners would tell me about how they joined the Umbrella Movement and how they agreed with our beliefs. I think prisoners are more aware of the importance of human rights,” he says, adding that even the prison wardens would share with him how they had joined protests.

“Even the triad members in prison support democracy. They complain how the tax on cigarettes is extremely high and the tax on red wine is extremely low; it just shows how the upper-class elite lives here,” he says, as a waiter strains to hear our conversation. Wong was most recently released from jail in June, the day after the largest protests in the history of Hong Kong, when an estimated 2m people — more than a quarter of the territory’s 7.5m population — took to the streets.

Raised in a deeply religious family, he used to travel to mainland China every two years with his family and church literally to spread the gospel. As with many Hong Kong Chinese who trace their roots to the mainland, he doesn’t know where his ancestral village is. His lasting memory of his trips across the border is of dirty toilets, he tells me, mid-bite. He turned to activism when he realised praying didn’t help much.

“The gift from God is to have independence of mind and critical thinking; to have our own will and to make our own personal judgments. I don’t link my religious beliefs with my political judgments. Even Carrie Lam is Catholic,” he trails off, in a reference to Hong Kong’s leader. Lam has the lowest approval rating of any chief executive in the history of the city, thanks to her botched handling of the crisis.

I ask whether Wong’s father, who is also involved in social activism, has been a big influence. Wrong question.

“The western media loves to frame Joshua Wong joining the fight because of reading the books of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King or because of how my parents raised me. In reality, I joined street activism not because of anyone book I read. Why do journalists always assume anyone who strives for a better society has a role model?” He glances down at his pinging phone and draws a breath, before continuing. “Can you really describe my dad as an activist? I support LGBTQ rights,” he says, with a fist pump. His father, Roger Wong, is a well-known anti-gay rights campaigner in Hong Kong.

I notice he has put down his spoon, with half a plate of fried rice untouched. I decide it would be a good idea to redirect our conversation by bonding over phone addictions. Wong, renowned for his laser focus and determination, replies to my emails and messages at all hours and has been described by his friends as “a robot.”

He scrolls through his Gmail, his inbox filled with unread emails, showing me how he categorises interview requests with country tags. His life is almost solely dedicated to activism. “My friends and I used to go to watch movies and play laser tag but now of course we don’t have time to play any more: we face real bullets every weekend.”

The protests — which have seen more than 3,300 people arrested — have been largely leaderless. “Do you ever question your relevance to the movement?” I venture, mid-spoonful of congealed fried rice.

“Never,” he replies with his mouth full. “We have a lot of facilitators in this movement and I’m one of them . . . it’s just like Wikipedia. You don’t know who the contributors are behind a Wikipedia page but you know there’s a lot of collaboration and crowdsourcing. Instead of just having a top-down command, we now have a bottom-up command hub which has allowed the movement to last far longer than Umbrella.

“With greater power comes greater responsibility, so the question is how, through my role, can I express the voices of the frontliners, of the street activism? For example, I defended the action of storming into the Legislative Council on July 1. I know I didn’t storm in myself . . . ” His phone pings twice. Finally he succumbs.

After tapping away for about 30 seconds, Wong launches back into our conversation, sounding genuinely sorry that he wasn’t there on the night when protesters destroyed symbols of the Chinese Communist party and briefly occupied the chamber.

“My job is to be the middleman to express, evaluate and reveal what is going on in the Hong Kong protests when the movement is about being faceless,” he says, adding that his Twitter storm of 29 tweets explaining the July 1 occupation reached at least four million people. I admit that I am overcome with exhaustion just scanning his Twitter account, which has more than 400,000 followers. “Well, that thread was actually written by Jeffrey Ngo from Demosisto,” he say, referring to the political activism group that he heads.

A network of Hong Kong activists studying abroad helps fuel his relentless public persona on social media and in the opinion pages of international newspapers. Within a week of his most recent arrest, he had published op-eds in The Economist, The New York Times, Quartz and the Apple Daily.

I wonder out loud if he ever feels overwhelmed at taking on the Chinese Communist party, a task daunting even for some of the world’s most formidable governments and companies. He peers at me over his wire-framed glasses. “It’s our responsibility; if we don’t do it, who will? At least we are not in Xinjiang or Tibet; we are in Hong Kong,” he says, referring to two regions on Chinese soil on the frontline of Beijing’s drive to develop a high-tech surveillance state. In Xinjiang, at least one million people are being held in internment camps. “Even though we’re directly under the rule of Beijing, we have a layer of protection because we’re recognised as a global city so [Beijing] is more hesitant to act.”

I hear the sound of the wok firing up in the kitchen and ask him the question on everyone’s minds in Hong Kong: what happens next? Like many people who are closely following the extraordinary situation in Hong Kong, he is hesitant to make firm predictions.

“Lots of think-tanks around the world say ‘Oh, we’re China experts. We’re born in western countries but we know how to read Chinese so we’re familiar with Chinese politics.’ They predicted the Communist party would collapse after the Tiananmen Square massacre and they’ve kept predicting this over the past three decades but hey, now it’s 2019 and we’re still under the rule of Beijing, ha ha,” he grins.

While we are prophesying, does Wong ever think he might become chief executive one day? “No local journalist in Hong Kong would really ask this question,” he admonishes. As our lunch has progressed, he has become bolder in dissecting my interview technique. The territory’s chief executive is currently selected by a group of 1,200, mostly Beijing loyalists, and he doubts the Chinese Communist party would ever allow him to run. A few weeks after we meet he announces his candidacy in the upcoming district council elections. He was eventually the only candidate disqualified from running — an order that, after our lunch, he tweeted had come from Beijing and was “clearly politically driven”.

We turn to the more ordinary stuff of 23-year-olds’ lives, as Wong slurps the remainder of his milk tea. “Before being jailed, the thing I was most worried about was that I wouldn’t be able to watch Avengers: Endgame,” he says.

“Luckily, it came out around early May so I watched it two weeks before I was locked up in prison.” He has already quoted Spider-Man twice during our lunch. I am unsurprised when Wong picks him as his favourite character.

“I think he’s more . . . ” He pauses, one of the few times in the interview. “Compared to having an unlimited superpower or unlimited power or unlimited talent just like Superman, I think Spider-Man is more human.” With that, our friendly neighbourhood activist dashes off to his next interview.