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Kenneth Lo (born Lo Hsiao Chien; 12 September 1913 – 11 August 1995) was a Chinese diplomat, food writer, restaurateur, retailer and tennis player. After graduating from Cambridge, Lo worked as an industrial relations officer at the Chinese consulate in Liverpool. He was promoted to vice-consul in Manchester in 1946, but left the diplomatic service after the Communist seizure of China in 1949. With a loan of $80, he opened a shop selling Chinese greeting cards and, as business improved, Chinese pottery too. By 1956, Lo’s business had expanded to the point that he had his own art gallery in London. Lo also began pursuing a career as a writer sometime between 1953 and 1955. He wrote more than thirty Chinese cookbooks. His first cookbook, Cooking the Chinese Way, was written in three weeks and sold 10,000 copies. His 1970s cookbook Chinese Food was similarly well-received, while New Chinese Vegetarian Cooking (1987) contained, according to one reviewer, “such tempting recipes as Sichuan hot-braised stir-fried eggplant and stir-fried asparagus with garlic.” Lo also wrote reviews for Egon Ronay and The Good Food Guide.

In 1976, Lo founded the London-based Chinese Gourmet Club. In 1980, he cofounded Memories of China—a restaurant which offered a variety of Chinese dishes, including those from Lo’s hometown in Fujian—together with his wife and several business partners; The Daily Telegraph announced that it “was instantly rated among the best Chinese restaurants in the country”. The same year, Lo established the London-based culinary school, Ken Lo’s Kitchen, which may have been the first Chinese cooking school in Europe. A second Memories of China branch was opened in 1989.