A friend of mine posted this up on her Facebook wall earlier in the week. Thought it’ll be good to share with those who hasn’t seen it yet. Quite an entertaining time waster while you wait to get off work for happy hour. Have a good long weekend ahead now. Tribute to a Legend –…
Category Archives: Celebrity Chef
The Fat Duck Builds Anticipation with Like A Kid In A Sweet Shop Video
Foodies worldwide and haute cuisine-stalkers would have read this piece of news earlier this week. But just in case you haven’t, let me bring you up to speed. Top British chef Heston Blumenthal has recently added another layer to the dining experience at his Michelin-starred restaurant by creating a virtual candy store meant to whet his…
Debbie Teoh’s A Touch of Nyonya Influence, Parkroyal Kuala Lumpur: Celebrating the Memory of Puah Kiam Ti Chang
When I was a little boy, triangular indigo-and-white glutinous rice dumplings were an annual treat. Auntie Tan, my late god-mother, made these bamboo leaf-wrapped bundles to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The festival is also known to the Chinese as Du?nw? Jié ??? or Double Fifth as it is observed on the fifth day of…
How to Photograph Food & Hennessy X.O Appreciation Grows Gastronomy 2011 with Chef Cheong Liew
Make no mistakes about it that everyone, and I mean everyone, can take photographs of food. It’s blatantly easy, all you need is a camera, and you start shooting. Viola. Food shots. But making a dish look like culinary pornography, that’s a whole different thing all together – it’s an art form that only a…
Pierre, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong: Our Grand Finale
I was out on a walk in Chinatown last weekend and noticed a peculiar sign at the back of the flower market. It read: “Please leave all your personal problems behind when you leave home for work.” What a very odd place for such a sign, I thought. I could have sworn that it was…
Recipe by Anna Olson: Caramel Banana Cheesecake Recipe
Recently, 30 lucky customers had a chance to hob nob with Asian Food Channel’s star chef Anna Olson at an intimate and exclusive session organized by household and professional use appliances giant, Electrolux. Chef Anna Olson, on her very first trip to Malaysia as part of her Southeast Asia tour, graced the newly opened Electrolux…
