Favourite Food: Traditional Chinese comfort food. Favourite Go-To Recipe: Any kind of salad recipe because they are easy and hard to beat in freshness. Favourite Utensil to Cook with: Chopsticks Favourite Childhood Food: Mom’s steamed black bean pork. Favourite Cookbook(s): Donna Hay’s series of cookbooks. Favourite Star Chef(s): Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson and Michael Smith
Best Cooking Tip from Mom: Marinate chicken in soy sauce, garlic, green onions and oyster sauce for the best flavour. Best Cooking Tip from Dad: Wonton dumplings are done when they float to the surface. Best Fat Food: Anything deep fried. Best Comfort Food: I’ve got 3 top faves… ma po tofu, steamed eggs with shrimp and scallions spooned over rice, Shepherd’s Pie.
Worse Childhood Food: Fish eyes & beef tendon. Worse Thing Ever Eaten: Fish eyes & beef tendon, hands down! Worse Cooking Chore: Peeling the tough vein off sweet peas and peeling shrimp prior to cooking.
First Cooking Catastrophe: Age 9; burned the sugar while trying to make syrup and set the pot on fire. First Recipe Gone Wrong: Age 13, overdosed the seafood pasta with white wine. Everything tasted like alcohol. First Hit Recipe: Age 15, made a dressed-up Kraft mac & cheese with chicken marinated in soy sauce, garlic, green onions and oyster sauce. First Realization of Loving to Cook: When my brother asked me to make my mac & cheese a few more times.
