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2013年4月5日 星期五

Malaysia’s Masterchef Chef Ezani comes to Adelaide..

Malaysia’s Masterchef Chef Ezani comes to Adelaide..

Masterchef has taken the world by storm and Malaysia is no different. With season 1 of Malaysia’s Masterchef completed, the Malaysia Carnival in Adelaide made a special request for 26 year old Dentist and winner Chef Ezani to come down to Adelaide to partake in a special cooking demonstration for the event.

Chef Ezani arrived in Adelaide a few days before the Malaysian Carnival to a special dinner held at Bradford Lodge, where she’d be staying in Adelaide. Funnily enough, Chef Ezani had previously loved in Bradford Lodge while studying dentistry at Adelaide Uni, where the Datuk Hassan Salleh happily provided her with the same room on the seventh floor.

When first meeting her, she was a calm and collective 26 year old woman, she was charming, very funny and reminded me of all the qualities that people enjoy to watch on reality television.

Currently, while taking on this wonderful opportunity she has post-pone her commitments to dentistry and has definitely haven’t crossed it off her list.

“Dentistry has always been something I wanted to do, when I was little at school I always wanted to be a dentist”

When Ezani arrived back in Malaysia in December after completing her studies at Adelaide University, she had to wait until April when she received her diploma before she could begin working. However, during that waiting period of 5 months she took up one of her hobbies, cooking.

“I had on my facebook profile a photo album of all the food I had been cooking during my break I called “Masterchef Inspired””

From this photo album and peer pressure from her friends, both factors persuaded her to submit an application to the Malaysian Masterchef before coming back to Australia in April to attend her graduation ceremony.

“My thought was “why not? – there is no harm in trying”

She received an email saying that she had been accepted for an audition for Masterchef in May.  When coming back to Malaysia, Chefi Ezani still waitig for the call for work in dentistry, so she decided to pursue her love of food and contined to compet in Masterchef.

“When I actually got the call for denstisry I was in the top 40 and I had to pick which one I wanted to do and which one I could do.” So with much thought and consideration she deferred her employment for the show, think back to the concept of “why not – there is no harm in trying”.

Throughout her time competing on Masterchef a lot of her dishes that she enjoyed to create were salads and desserts. Living in Australia for 6 years gave her the opportunity to multinational cuisines as Australia has many different types of international cuisines in one location. She tried to mix it up with a variety of different styles and cuisine which were natural and rarely ever traditional Malaysian food.

“Mum cooks amazing tradition food, so I always tried to cook something different. So I’ll cook western or different types of Asian cuisines – Vietnamese in particular”

Winning was an incredible moment for Chef Ezani, she was such a big fan of Masterchef and Junior Masterchef when in Australia having that surreal moment that she had seen on television happening to herself – It wasn’t imaginary.

“When I decided to apply for Masterchef I never aimed to win, that was never the overall goal. I was so happy to do the show and took it as it came with each step, each challenge that came my way.”

After winning, a lot of things came in a variety of different blessings. As we have seen with other Masterchef winners or contestants, they all follow different paths.

Poh Ling Yeow is currently running her third season on ABC of her popular tv series “Poh’s Kitchen” RANDOM: FACT: Chef Ezani once met and haf her photo taken with Poh during the 2010 Malaysian Carnival. , Adam Liew has recently opened a Japanese restaurant in Sydney and Marion Grasby launched her own line of “Marion's Kitchen food range” as well as each of them have brought out their own cookbooks.

Chef Ezani is currently committed to Astro, the first evert High-Definition Broadcast in Malaysia and has been given a range of opportunities ranging from cookbooks, television shows and Astro Roadshows.

Chef Ezani is currently hosting a weekly live talk-show, which is a Malay talk show on an Islamic channel which incoporates women stories and inspirational stories. As well as she gets the opportunity to met the various famous people.

Chef Ezani is also the Brand Ambassador of the latest food product, My Chef which in itself is such a great achievement. My Chef has microwaveable ready-made meals, which are each celebrity chef is design 2-3 signature meals. Chef Ezani is the youngest Brand Ambassador for My Chef and her meals are designed to be less than 400 calories each with a low salt intake, which is launch this October.

As Chef Ezani is also a dentist she actively made the decision to produce ready-made meals that incorporate healthy elements, which isn’t a common idea in Malaysia.

“A lot of Malaysian eating habits are to eat out or have take away, we have restaurants open 24 hours everyone. Fast food is incredibly easy to get and find – so  my idea is to produce food that is easy and ready but healthy for your diet”.

Since then she has been asked to healthy cooking demonstrations, including tips on how to cook healthy. One in particular healthy food demonstration she had done recently was to cook healthy snacks for nurses, where she had introduced low fat recipes using grilled chicken and salsa, which still remained to be healthy but full of favour.

Chef Ezani has begun introducing foreign dishes that are healthy as well as salads that use their natural resources. When growing up in her family household, they naturally ate a lot of fruit and vegetables and when living away from home allowed her to explore and different alternative ways to cook healthy.

As previously she had lived in Adelaide, she has spent some of her down time enjoying the sites again, she visited Adelaide University where she saw all the new construction of the buildings, she has visited some friends who once graduated decided to stay in Adelaide. But the one thing she took an opportunity to do was to shop in Central Market in the Adelaide CBD, which she has missed since she has returned to Malaysia. 

“I miss the grocery shopping from Central Market, I think the fresh produce in Australia in general is amazing, in Adelaide also going to Central Market was an experience it was an event to do something while in Malaysia it’s not something we appreciate as much” – however, I’m sure with Chef Ezani’s amazing ambition and her continuous success she will be changing that.

 Written By Jo Phan, Reporter for SA Chinese Weekly

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