Healthy Summer Dining Experience: The Genie Concept

 For the next few days, we're highlighting our Healthy Summer Dining Experience partners, the TFT dishes they are featuring for the month of August, and the prizes YOU can win by entering our HSDE (contest)! Don't forget to EAT (a delicious TFT HDSE meal/drink), TAKE (a picture of the item and upload it to our Facebook page), and SHARE (the photo with friends and ask them to "like" it), so you can WIN (one of nine incredible prizes, one for the most "liked" photo taken at each HDSE partner restaurant)!

The Genie Concept, the brainchild of Cara Grogan and Melanie White, is a one-stop-shop for all your juice cleansing needs! You can pick up your detoxifying juices at the Genie Cafe, located at 5-13 New Street in Sheung Wan, or have them delivered to your door.  Individual juices are available for purchase, as are cleanses, based on duration (1 day, 2 days, 4 days, and 6 days) and your experience with juice diets (beginner, intermediate, and expert). The Genie girls have designated their kale pineapple juice as the TFT HDSE item, and the lucky TFT supporter who has the most "Liked" picture of it will win a 1-day Genie Cleanse! Thanks Genie Girls!!

Kale pineapple juice!

Food Hero Tuesday: Melanie White of Genie!

Note from the Editor: Every Tuesday, TFT HK will bring you a post or article from/about one of our local or global food heroes. These are people who inspire us, and whose visions align with the values that TFT espouses and promotes. This week's post is from Melanie White, co-creator (with Cara Grogan) of Genie Concepts, the new and already extremely popular juice cleanse supplier that also has a lovely cafe in Sheung Wan (G/F, 5-13 New Street). Before creating Genie, Melanie worked in fashion and owned her own line of shoes and handbags. Now, her focus is helping Genie's clients be their best, healthiest selves. Melanie, we at TFT HK salute you!

Hey Melanie! Thanks so much for being a TFT HK food hero. Tell us a bit about yourself!

Well, I moved to HK 5 years ago. I work in fashion, and had my own brand of shoes and handbags that I produced in China, so naturally, I decided to base myself here for business. I also had good friends living in the city (i.e. my business partner Cara!) so it was a really easy move. I wanted to get more experience in the international market, so from there I started working for a swimwear brand which is sold across the globe in over 17 countries.