At 5.45 am, five-year-old Lang Lang would hop out of bed to practise the piano for an hour before school. Lunch meant 15 minutes eating and 45 minutes practising. After school there were four more ...

He first discovered it years ago, but one recent morning Chinese pianist Lang Lang was thinking about the lobster fried rice at Buddakan. “I fell in love with that taste,” he said of the dish, ...