Chef at Lakehouse Kitchen since: 2023

 

Favourite Class to teach: Chinese

 

Training/education: Master of Arts in Social Policy and Social Development, Bachelor of Social Work, Culinary Management Diploma (graduate in 2024)

 

Cooking Since: 2021

 

Favourite Childhood Food Experience: ‘Annual treat’ at Pizza Hut

 

What made you want to become a chef? I want to open a café & bar

 

What are the 5 ingredients your cant live without? Salt, water, olive oil, garlic, jasmine rice

 

What do you love about cooking? Sharing what you have

 

When you're creating a new recipe, what influences and inspires you? Culture, abundance of ingredients, cost

 

What advice would you give a new cook? Be responsible

 

What are you doing when you’re not cooking? Daydreaming

 

Describe your perfect evening? Looking at the sunset next to the sea with bottles of wine and spirits

 

If you had friends in from out of town, where would you take them to eat? Home Block at Cedar Creek

 

Where are you from? Hong Kong

 

What was your favorite vacation? Nine month cycling journey from Hong Kong to India and around Europe

 

What are your hobbies? Playing basketball, hiking, playing video games

 

What is your favorite sports team? AC Milan

 

If you could have dinner with one person, who would it be? My grandma

 

What are your guilty pleasures? No guilt when its pleasurable

 

Who is your favorite celebrity chef? Saman Nosrat

 

What 5 tools should every new cook have in the kitchen? Santoku knife, electronic scale, thermometer, tasting spoons, glass of wine

 

List three of your favourite tips or techniques you use in the kitchen? Hot pan hot oil, stock your herbs and spices, never use table salt

 

Favourite Lakehouse Tool? Breville Sous Chef food processor