Operation Santa Claus: Hong Kong hotel’s Christmas cake trains ensure charity efforts on the right track
- Kowloon Shangri-La’s carriage-shaped ‘Wagon Train’ confections, in white-and-green-icing livery, sold at Christmas tree lighting ceremony to help Operation Santa Claus
- This year’s annual Hong Kong fundraising initiative – organised jointly by South China Morning Post and RTHK – will support 16 charities
A team of artisan bakers in Hong Kong have created Christmas cake trains, specially decorated in green-and-white-icing livery, to get Kowloon Shangri-La’s annual charity fundraising efforts on the right track.
The “Enchanted Wonders” theme for this year’s Christmas celebrations at the Hong Kong hotel helped to inspire the special design of the limited-edition “Wagon Train” dry fruit cake confections, which are shaped like classic steam train carriages.
The hotel has been supporting local charities for decades, and this year it chose to sell the HK$450 (US$58) cakes at its Christmas tree lighting ceremony on December 1 and donate all the proceeds to the Operation Santa Claus (OSC) campaign.
OSC is an annual fundraising initiative organised jointly by the South China Morning Post and public broadcaster RTHK.
Since 1988, the campaign has raised HK$369 million to support the Hong Kong community through 338 charitable projects.
Officiating at Kowloon Shangri-La’s event – attended by Father Christmas and emceed by Canadian actress Linna Huynh – were hotel general manager Christopher Chia, South China Morning Post general counsel Paul Wong and RTHK’s head of English programme service, Jim Gould.
