festival!Celebrity Cook Alvin Quah set to take centre stage at this
year's festival!
Alvin Quah, a Buddhist born, Cantonese and Hokkien speaking, Chinese
Malaysian, was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1974. In the melting pot of food
culture that Malaysia is, his cooking eductation started young. At four
years old, he remembers learning, under his Mothers watchful eye, how to
shape and roll glutinous rice dumplings that would later be boiled in a
ginger syrup.
A love of the English language and a close proximty to home, meant at
20 Alvin chose Melbourne as the place to study for his PhD in Science.
Whilst his fellow students lived on baked beans and two minute noodles,
Alvin spent his univeristy years experimenting with mixing the flavours
instilled in him by his Mother's Nyonya heritage and his newfound
appreciation for Western Cuisine.
In 2008, Alvin moved to Sydney to commence a managerial role in the
pharmaceutical industry. And in 2010, encouraged by his partner he
audtioned for the second series of MasterChef.
Alvin departed the iconic Channel 10 series after making a more than
credible bid for the title and not before his quick witted sense of
humour made him a favourite among audiences across Australia.
Since then he has been in hot demand for Australian Television
programs, appearing on Ch 10's the 7pm project and The Circle and
Ch9's Kerri-Anne. He has a regular column with Citysearch –
'Alvin Bites', frequently contributes to magazine 'Gourmet
Rabbit' and has made personal appearances all over Australia,
including; the Fine Food Fair in Melbourne, Crave Sydney, The Hunter
Valley Seafood Festival and most recently MasterChef Live in Sydney.
In an exciting start to 2011, Alvin will appear as regular guest chef
on Kerri-Anne, is an Ambassador for Australia Day and Taste of Harmony
and continues to be devoted to his blog site www.cinnamonpig.com.au.
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