Potong

‘Demon chef’ Alvin Leung’s favourite Hong Kong restaurants, including ‘the best Italian’

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‘Demon chef’ Alvin Leung’s favourite Hong Kong restaurants, including ‘the best Italian’

Alvin Leung, Hong Kong’s “demon chef” and founder of Bo Innovation and Cafe Bau, recently starred in a new Netflix cooking competition series called The Maverick Academy. He spoke to Andrew Sun. My mum was a horrible cook so I ate a lot of instant noodles. I started to cook for myself as a teenager. … Read more

Asia’s Best Female Chef 2024, Pichaya ‘Pam’ Soontornyanakij of Bangkok’s Michelin-star Potong, has her mother to thank for her success

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Asia’s Best Female Chef 2024, Pichaya ‘Pam’ Soontornyanakij of Bangkok’s Michelin-star Potong, has her mother to thank for her success

“It’s a very homey dish that my mum always cooked, and she’s always telling me the tricks of the original, and how to do it perfectly,” says Pichaya. “That has stuck [in] my head until now and I cannot leave that out of the menu.” While evidently a version that, visually, has little to do … Read more