But the famously frugal star can often be seen taking public transport and queuing for tickets to watch his own films in Hong Kong, where he lives.<\/p>\n
Now Chow has revealed his decision to give away his fortune, which is reported to be HK$5.6bn (\u00a3565m).<\/p>\n
“This money isn’t something you possess forever,” he told South Korea’s Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n “When you’re gone one day, you have to leave it to others to use it.<\/p>\n “You can’t bring the money in your bank account with you after you die,” Chow added, saying his wife “strongly supports” the decision.<\/p>\n The gap between the rich and poor in Hong Kong was at its widest last year for almost half a century.<\/p>\n Many ordinary residents struggle with sky-high prices and the cost of living, which has seen homes become increasingly cramped as generations of families are forced to share.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the rich are seen as flaunting their wealth.<\/p>\n Chow, affectionately nicknamed Brother Fat in Hong Kong, has been praised for eschewing such a lifestyle.<\/p>\n His wife, Jasmine Tan, has previously described how her husband will often eat at street stalls and only got rid of his Nokia flip-phone when it finally died after years of use.<\/p>\n In the interview Chow also discussed the joys of a simple meal – one of his favourites is savoury Chinese turnips with rice.<\/p>\n “I am happy if there’s food to eat, because we were quite poor then,” he said, referencing his upbringing in a fishing village.<\/p>\n “I’ll be very happy eating sweet potatoes and vegetables, and even happier if I have chicken and meat during the new year.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Chow Yun-fat has promised to donate his vast wealth to charity after he dies. The 63-year-old, who has also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean and A Better Tomorrow, joined Forbes’ list of highest-paid actors for the first time in 2015, sharing 24th place with Russell Crowe. But the famously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"hong](\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/09\/750x563\/skynews-city-lights-hong-kong_4412908.jpg?20180906104643\")
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