Apple Mandy is a freelance food and wellness writer based in New York City. She has written for publications, including CNN Travel, Insider, SELF, and Time Out among others. Before moving to NYC, she lived in Hong Kong for 10 years and worked both in media and in communications. She also lived in Shanghai, where she started her food-writing career profiling influential chefs, including British author and cook Fuchsia Dunlop and French chef Alain Passard of three-Michelin-starred L'Arpège, in Paris.