Laurinda Ho opens up about becoming independent and finding happiness

Outside her work, Ho is, in her own words, a “very straightforward person” who likes to confront issues directly, particularly if something is not quite right with one of her friends. This straightforward, impatient character probably has a lot to do with her upbringing. “Everyone says I’ve ended up with a good script in life, and I won’t deny that,” she says, referring to her privileged upbringing.

She recalls seeing someone on social media making a joke about wanting to reincarnate as Laurinda Ho. “The first time I saw it, I thought it was quite funny.” The more comments she read, though, the more she felt people were taking the resulting memes too far. Still, she laughs it off. “People might talk about me and pay attention to me because of my dad—that’s not a bad thing, because I am indeed my dad’s daughter.

And then I thought that since people are paying so much attention to me, I might as well use that attention to do something positive.” If she has indeed been given a good script, then Ho’s plan is to take that script and create a great story with it—with her playing the main character. Ho loves food more than anything else. As a Cantonese person, her DNA is filled with char siu, double-boiled soups and fresh seafood.

She once trended online for a video she posted of herself making her take on dalgona coffee, a contemporary Macanese classic, mixing up coffee powder, sugar and water, then adding Black & White Evaporated Milk, resulting in a sweet creation. “The milk froth is the same as how I saw them make it in Macau, but the overall taste of the original Macanese coffee was on the bitter side, so I fine-tuned the recipe and changed the ratio of the milk,” she says.