On March 14th I’ll be at Foodbank Victoria cooking for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. It should be a great event and all proceeds go to assisting the amazing work that Foodbank does. Eve...
Happy Australia Day everyone! As an Asian Australian it makes me incredibly proud this year to be both Sydney’s Chinese New Year Ambassador was well as an Australia Day Ambassador at the same t...
I’m not a superstitious person, but at Chinese New Year even the most rational of us find ourselves following the old traditions such as buying new clothes, cutting our hair before new year’s day, pa...
Chinese New Year is coming up in a few days and I so I thought I’d share with you one of my favourite CNY dishes. Yee Sang is a very popular Chinese New Year dish around Malaysia and Singapore ...
Hi all, I’m really proud to announce that I am an official Ambassador for Sydney’s Chinese New Year celebrations this year! There’s lots to do in Sydney during the festival – ...
If you ever felt inclined to make a list of “food trends” for the past couple of years, “adding kimchi to everything” and “Mexican-Asian fusion” would both certain...
Hearty lamb shank dishes are a winter staple in Australia, but this dish is a great one for times like now just as the weather starts to warm. We often think of lamb shanks as a hearty winter dish, b...
I happened across this old tweet of mine today and realised that I had written it exactly two years ago to the day. When you find something like that, you can’t help but think what your life wo...
There are many “home truths” in practical cooking, but how true are they really? As part of my promise to write more on this website, this is the start of a series of short posts about so...
Picture Credit: Someone with waaay too much time on their hands The finale of Season 3 of MasterChef Australia is just a few days away now, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit some of the...
It just dawned on me that it’s been 1 year to the day since I won MasterChef. Exactly 365 days ago Callum and I were centre stage in the most watched non-sport TV event in Australian history. We came...
I came back from the gym and a long bike ride today and immediately made ice cream. I think there is something fundamentally wrong with my approach to exercise… Still, the results were deliciou...
Those of you that watched MasterChef last night would have seen a letter I wrote to the new contestants welcoming them to the MasterChef house. I had a few people ask me what the letter said in full,...
Ramen is a family of Japanese noodle dishes that takes its name from the Chinese noodle soups featuring the pulled ‘la mian’ noodles. Basic ramen usually features a shio (seasoned chicken...
This year has been a crazy one for me for a number of reasons – in the past few months alone I’ve been trying to adjust to (1) a new career, (2) some pretty serious public recognition, (3...
Hi all: It’s been an age since my last blog post, but I have been absolutely flat out on my book, work experience and about a billion other things. I do have some more substantial posts in the ...
Here are some behind the scenes shots from my photo shoot with the brilliant Steve Greenaway from CI Studios for the Sydney Morning Herald/Sydney International Food Festival competition. It was hones...
*I used to post up a summary of my weekends each month (as recounted on Twitter). I just noticed that the last time I did this was in August last year, just before the MC-imposed internet blackout th...
One of the best things about winning Masterchef is that I get invited to a lot of stuff now. Everything from primary school show and tell (seriously) and dinner parties held by complete strangers (se...
Donna Hay: Beautiful food tastes better. Matt Moran: If he walks into a kitchen I am cooking in, I am probably going to win something. Matt Moran: Luckier than a hatful of pixies. Neil Perry: The bus...
One of my favourite challenges in Masterchef was the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ challenge, but watching it back I was really disappointed that the tasting of my dish didn’t make the final ...
Things are all in a bit of a spin at the moment as Callum and I are being shunted from pillar to post for a bunch of media interviews following Sunday’s result, but I wanted to get back onto th...
Weekend: Loooong bike ride, Imperial Palace, Gaugin exhibition at MOMAT, Christine’s farewell (and karaoke), and Burton’s Mark of the Year. 3:20 PM Aug 30th from web Weekend: Kayaking and...
Cabbage is wonderfully in season right now in the Northern Hemisphere so let me ramble on about that for a bit. Cabbages and other members of the brassica family contain defensive chemicals (enzymes ...
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