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Firefighter Yip Kin-man and ice climbing athlete Janet Kung Tsz-shan were crowned “bun king and queen” in the final of the Cheung Chau "Bun Scrambling" competition held on Wednesday midnight on the football pitch of the Pak Tai Temple Recreation Ground.

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Nine male and three female finalists competed against each other at the stroke of midnight, racing up a 14-metre-high mountain covered in 9,000 plastic buns. There were 900 nine-point buns at the top level, 1,700 three-point buns at the mid-level, and 6,400 one-point buns at the bottom. Whoever scores the highest marks wins.

Yip, who last won the title in 2016, defeated reigning champion Chung Yuk-chuen to become the winner this year, while Kung, also a registered nurse, won the women’s group a second time after her previous win in 2019.

Nine-time champion Jason Kwok Ka-ming failed to get into the top three, yet he won the "Full Pockets of Lucky Buns" award for gathering the highest number of buns.

Firefighter and ice climber crowned in bun scrambling final