January 2026

There are some great women in business. My first choice is my mum, who is the managing director of Asia Market. She still goes to work seven days a week. She is the smartest, shrewdest, most hardworking and energetic businesswoman I know.

Chinese Irish businesswoman Eva Pau joined Professor Mark Poustie, Dean of the School of Law, in conversation on 20 March 2023 as part of the College’s continuing Women in Leadership series.

Eva Pau, commercial director of family business Asia Market, on being immersed in Irish culture from an early age.

Asia Market is one of the most innovative shops in Dublin, and Eva Pau explains how she has built on her family’s brilliant idea.

Grabbing my basket I set into the market, first taking in the colourful, bustling scene in front of me: a scooter, typical to the streets of China and South East Asia, is burdened with boxes of fresh fruit, and all around wooden crates and baskets spill over with other exotic produce

Asia Market’s Eva Pau on juggling life with an 11-month-old, her shopping bag collection and the times she sold encyclopedias door-to-door

As a child, Eva Pau, commercial director of Ireland’s Asia Market, bemoaned that she had to go to school seven days a week, but her enterprising parents argued that they also worked seven days a week, so fair is fair.

This month, Eva Pau, commercial director of Dublin’s much-loved Asia Market shares her ideal weekend.

Here, we catch up with Eva Pau to chat about everything from her earliest memories of food to her favourite flavours and culinary inspirations.