''Beautiful Cooking'' (Traditional Chinese:
美女廚房, literally: Beautiful Girl's Kitchen) is a
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
variety show
Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a comp� ...
broadcast on
TVB
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB; zh, t=電視廣播有限公司) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. The company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Canton ...
. The show began broadcasting on May 28, 2006 hosted by
Ronald Cheng
Ronald Cheng Chung-kei (born 9 March 1972) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and songwriter.
Life and career
Ronald Cheng was born in Hong Kong. Originally intending to work behind the scenes as a songwriter and a producer, Cheng did odd jobs at his ...
,
Alex Fong and
Edmond Leung
Edmond Leung Hon-man (; born 5 November 1971) is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and television host.
Background
Born in British Hong Kong on 5 November 1971, he was a youth development footballer and coach until 17. At a ...
. The second season began broadcast from April 5, 2009.
Format
The game participants include 3 female Hong Kong celebrities. Usually the girls are invited for their beauty or celebrity status. The girls are given an apron to wear on top of the clothes they come in.
Competition 1
For the first competition, a master chef will cook a more complicated dish and then explain the recipe and cooking procedure. The female celebrities are then requested to match the chef's dish by trying to imitate the cooking and recipe.
Competition 2
In competition 2, the three contestants are presented with a live seafood. Their tasks are to butcher, clean, and prepare the seafood all by themselves.
Points
When the dishes are finished, the hosts, guest judges and the guest chef gets to sample the dishes and on a scale of -10 to 10, they give out a score. Selected members of the audience also get a chance to try the dishes and make additional comments. Winners are announced at the end of the show.
Season 1
Beautiful girl cooking helpers
The show also consist of a few girls dressed in maid costumes. They are nicknamed according to Chinese food names, and are featured in all the episodes.
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Congee
Congee ( , derived from Tamil language, Tamil ), is a form of savoury rice porridge made by boiling rice in a large amount of water until the rice softens. Depending on rice–water ratio, the thickness of congee varies from a Western oatmeal ...
- Yetta Tse (謝珊珊)
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Fen
A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetland along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires ...
- Helena Wong (黃卓慧)
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Noodle
Noodles are a type of food made from unleavened dough which is either rolled flat and cut, stretched, or extruded, into long strips or strings. Noodles are a staple food in many cultures and made into a variety of shapes. The most common noo ...
- Tse Siu Wan (謝兆韵)
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Rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ...
- Snow Suen (孫慧雪)
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Tong sui
''Tong sui'' (; ) or ''tim tong'' is a general term for any sweet soup served as a dessert typically at the end of a meal in Chinese cuisine. ''Tong sui'' originated in the Lingnan region of China, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hon ...
- Chacha Chan (陳文靜)
Celebrities
Final Points
Season 2
Beautiful Cooking helper girls
The girls were changed this season.
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TVB
" ''Beautiful cooking season 2.'' Retrieved on 2009-05-01. They play a different food role type.
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Blueberry
Blueberries are a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plants with blue or purple berries. They are classified in the section ''Cyanococcus'' with the genus ''Vaccinium''. Commercial blueberries—both wild (lowbush) ...
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Kibby Lau (劉俐)
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Mandarin oranges -
Yuri Chan (陳蕊蕊)
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Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus '' Musa''. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing the ...
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Vanko Wong (王淑玲)
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Rice noodle roll
A rice noodle roll, also known as a steamed rice roll and ''cheung fun'' (), and as look funn or look fun in Hawaii, is a Cantonese dish originating from Guangdong Province in southern China, commonly served as either a snack, small meal or v ...
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Ting Lok-sze (丁樂鍶)
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Spring roll
Spring rolls are rolled appetizers or dim sum commonly found in Chinese, Vietnamese and Southeast Asian cuisines. The kind of wrapper, fillings, and cooking technique used, as well as the name, vary considerably depending on the region's cu ...
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Lukian Wang (王宝宝)
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Red bean paste
Red bean paste () or red bean jam, also called adzuki bean paste or ''anko'' (a Japanese word), is a paste made of red beans (also called "adzuki beans"), used in East Asian cuisine. The paste is prepared by boiling the beans, then mashing or ...
baozi
Baozi (), or simply bao, is a type of yeast-leavened filled bun in various Chinese cuisines. There are many variations in fillings (meat or vegetarian) and preparations, though the buns are most often steaming, steamed. They are a variation of ...
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Cienna Leung (梁懿晴)
Celebrities
Final episode
The final episode featured the Beautiful Cooking cast versus the
Super Trio Series cast. It was filmed at the
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a prefecture-level city in the province of Guangdong, China. A Special economic zones of China, special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong ...
Overseas Chinese Town, a major amusement-park-city with water and other resort facilities.
[Sina.com.]
Sina.com
" ''獎門人廚房胸戰亞姐.'' Retrieved on 2009-11-09.[Sina.com.]
" ''錄影《奬門人》：孟瑤巨胸頂碗.'' Retrieved on 2009-11-09.
Final Points
See also
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List of TVB Series (2006)
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List of TVB Series (2009)
References
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External links
Beautiful cooking TVB
TVB original programming
2000s cooking television series
2006 Hong Kong television series debuts
2007 Hong Kong television series endings