PETALING JAYA: Having roasted Western celebrity chefs over how they cooked fried rice, Uncle Roger found himself on the receiving end of some schooling by fellow Malaysian Datuk Redzuawan Ismail, better known as Chef Wan. Uncle Roger, the alter ego of London-based Malaysian standup Nigel Ng, was put on the spot when he was challenged to prepare Lamb Shank Kerutup at Chef Wan’s restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. “I see (for) Uncle Roger, everything tastes like fried rice, fried rice, fried rice, ” said Chef Wan before Ng again failed to identify fennel, calling it “Chinese medicine”. Mind here, okay.”Declaring that a great chef “does not measure the ingredients but just throws these into the cooking”, Chef Wan said: “We boil all our lamb and you just throw inside, like that. See that, very easy.”Asked where his MSG (monosodium glutamate) – Uncle Roger’s confessedly “favourite ingredient” – was, Chef Wan said that was not Chinese cooking.

Source: The Star March 13, 2021 06:34 UTC