Most read of 2023: tasting the first Chinese durian, drinking in Korea’s whisky trend, tributes to MasterChef Australia host – top food and drink stories

Most read of 2023: tasting the first Chinese durian, drinking in Korea’s whisky trend, tributes to MasterChef Australia host – top food and drink stories

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From taste testing China’s much anticipated first home-grown durian to how a family who left Guangzhou, southern China, for Vancouver in 1981, built a fruit and vegetable empire in Canada, we look back at the food and drink stories most read by Post readers in 2023.

1. A taste of China’s home-grown durian

China’s much-anticipated first home-grown durian got the taste test in August from the Post’s Shea Driscoll.

He found the taste and smell were just a faint facsimile of a “proper” durian, while the texture was, at times, reminiscent of an unripe banana.

The Post’s digital editor, Shea Driscoll, tastes Chinese Hainan durian. Photo: Sun Yeung

2. Young Korean drinkers toast to whisky

Forget beer and soju, young Koreans are going crazy for whisky, and premium Scotch malts such as Macallan are selling out.

Once considered uncool and a “drink for middle-aged men”, in South Korea whisky has recently become trendy with young drinkers. Millennials are buying both cheap bottles for mixing highballs, and expensive Scotch, as well as Japanese malt whisky brands such as Yamazaki.
Malt whisky from Scotland, such as Macallan, and from Japan became popular with young South Korean drinkers in 2023. Photo: Shutterstock
Singaporean chef Chan Hon Meng, the man behind what was once the cheapest Michelin-star restaurant in the world. Photo: AFP

3. Singapore chef shines bright

Chan Hong Meng, the Singapore chef behind Hawker Chan, once the world’s cheapest Michelin-star restaurant, still sells 1,000 meals a day despite losing the star in 2021.

He opened outlets around the world. Some people say his food isn’t as good, but he takes the criticism “in his stride”.

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4. Building a fruit and vegetable empire

Post Magazine looked at how a Chinese family in Canada rose from nothing to run a fruit and vegetable empire.

(From left) Victor Lau, Queenie Chu and Leung Kin-wah at Kin’s Farm Market, a fruit and vegetable market chain in Canada started by a Chinese immigrant family four decades ago. Photo: Kin’s Farm Market

Leung Kin-wah’s family left Guangzhou for Vancouver in 1981 with little money and not much English but a desire to work hard.

This year, Kin’s Farm Market celebrates its 40th anniversary. Leung, who helped his parents start the company, talked about its beginnings and its future.

5. It’s all in the name

Anger was stirred after the name of Hong Kong fine-dining Cantonese restaurant The Chairman, and almost identical logo, popped up on a hoarding at a shopping mall in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

The Malaysian company behind the venue later clarified it has “no affiliation” with the Hong Kong restaurant.

The name of Hong Kong Cantonese restaurant The Chairman on a hoarding in Kuala Lumpur as part of an apparent copycat campaign. Photo: instagram/@david_yip

6. Tributes for MasterChef Australia’s Jock Zonfrillo

MasterChef Australia presenter Jock Zonfrillo died on April 30, aged 46. Tributes poured in for the father of four and judge on the popular TV cooking competition, while the MasterChef Australia broadcaster and producer hailed him as “talented and full of grit”.

Late MasterChef Australia presenter Jock Zonfrillo. Photo: Getty Images

7. A hospitality veteran’s go-to place for a meal

Businesswoman Maria Lee was Hong Kong’s first female hotel general manager in 1987 and has decades of hospitality industry experience under her belt.

Maria Lee, who became Hong Kong’s first female hotel general manager in 1987 and also founded The Rosedale Hotel Group.
She shared some of her favourite places to eat, from a traditional Hong Kong cha chaan teng cafe she has been going to for 50 years to a Michelin-recommended congee shop, her favourites providing a taste of Cantonese cuisine.

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