Sara Jane Ho
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And then I spent the next eight weeks shooting my show, flew back to China where I spent Christmas Day and New Year's Eve in a 14-day hotel quarantine because it was COVID lockdown, all that stuff. Popped out of quarantine, had a first date with my now husband, seven months later was legally wedded. Are you kidding? I'm so happy.
Every day, I thank my husband for being such an incredible husband to me. So supportive, so kind, so letting me be myself. Yeah. How did you meet him? We met years ago at some event that I hosted at one of my finishing schools. Once you have a physical space, you always have to activate it. So every week, I'd have a couple events, non-etiquette related. Each event would be like 40, 50 people.
2022.
Yeah. Wow.
Where does he live? You say he lives in Beijing. He lives in Shanghai. Oh, Shanghai. Right. And I feel like I have this double life because I'm... Obviously, I grew up very comfortable with the West. I went to Phillips Exeter. I speak English. But at the same time, I had to learn Mandarin.
And then I went over there and then I had to open my etiquette school and teach customers who did not speak a word of English. I had to hire staff who didn't speak English. So I literally had to really localize. And to this day, that is one of my achievements that I'm most proud of.
That when I speak Mandarin, I speak it so fluently and with such an accent that the locals don't believe I'm not a local. Wow.
It's really, really, really difficult. Yeah. So, and people will say, oh, what do you mean you're from Hong Kong? You must just have gotten Hong Kong passport. I'm like, no, no. Like I had to learn Mandarin later on in life. And they say that's not possible because your Mandarin is too good. So what languages do you speak then? English, Mandarin? English.
I speak Cantonese because in Hong Kong we grew up speaking Cantonese. Cantonese. Yeah. I studied French and German. In Hong Kong, I went to a German school. So I speak German and French and then Mandarin. What does he do back in Shanghai?
But what happened was a production studio in based in Singapore that called beach house productions. They found me, they cold emailed me, they emailed my info at, you know, whatever email. Okay. In 2018. Oh, And then asked me if they could pitch me as an idea to some streaming platforms. And Netflix bought the show. And so what year did Netflix buy it?
And we were supposed to go into production, but then COVID hit. And then that put a spanner in the works. And then we ended up shooting end of 2021 in Sydney. And how many episodes did you do? Six episodes. So season one, six episodes.
She stayed in China. You know, she has a family in China. And so she was just, she never expressed interest and Netflix never asked and it wasn't... So were you doing... If we shot in China, she'd probably be in it just because, right? No, no, it makes sense. But then at that time, they could only get me a visa to go to Australia. Australia was very strict with COVID at that time.
Even Australians couldn't get into Australia.
Yes. Djokovic.
Yeah, I was crazy busy just focusing on China, but I got a lot of overseas media interviews. So people are racing. So people did kind of know who you were in this space. Yes, yes. In 2013, Forbes, I was one of Forbes' 12 women to watch. 2015, BBC, I was on their list of 100 women. So how did they know of you? It was really just word of mouth.
There was five years when I started my business, I never even came back to America. Because I was so busy. I was literally like, my weekends were the busiest. When people had time off was when I was busy. I was teaching all the time. I would fly all over China. So not just in our schools, but I would fly to like Chongqing, Xi'an, Fujian, all these places.
I was doing like three cities a week to teach. And it was just, I mean, it was exhausting. So you are actually one of the people teaching at your schools. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Cause we're a boutique school and we don't have a lot of, we have three teachers, but we had a lot of like, we'd bring a lot of experts, like styling experts.
We'd have, uh, you know, well, Rebecca's, you know, a wine expert. We'd have, we have an art expert. So all these things teach their own modality, right? Yes. So what would be your modality that you would teach? Well, the thing I love most is Weston Table Manners. Yes. That's what I absolutely loved. And it was probably one of the, yeah, like the highlight classes that students really love too.
stop doing yeah so don't hold your knife like a pen you'd be surprised how many people do that they hold their knife like a pen okay like this don't do this well when you write it's like you'd be surprised a lot of people hold their knife like a pen okay how to show us how to hold it the way you held it is correct like this oh really yeah versus so versus like cutting like this okay okay all right so so i was right see there amanda i was right there you go okay okay go ahead
And so, okay, so here's something that people may not always know. So when you're at a restaurant, when the waiter gives you a menu and you've made your decision, you should close the menu because that is a signal to the waiter that you've already made your decision and he can approach you. If your menu still stays open, he thinks that you haven't made your decision yet.
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