Chef

It is not difficult now to make good food because we have sophisticated equipment and refined ingredients. Being innovative also helps you. It sets you apart from other chefs. But taste is king.

I take whatever I can get with grace.

Lowbrow ingredients don't equal inexpensive or not tasty food. In fact, it requires even more skill to make something simple into something spectacular.

Calling yourself God is blasphemous, but calling yourself demon isn't.

The 'Maverick Chef' is one concept that I would really want to do again because I am traveling from country to country taking from what is in that country that is iconic, special, funky, weird and doing it my way. That is something I really enjoy.

My mom wasn't a good cook. No, that was an understatement. She was really horrible. And in a Chinese family, that's a disaster.

The DNA of Rojak is found in its textures.

Hong Kong never had prestige. It's gone from fishing village to where it is today.

Talent in cooking can be described as skill, creativity, your instincts, how do you approach a problem.

I was possibly the first to showcase Chinese ingredients. So I was one of the first to say, 'Hey, you do not have to use imported vegetables to make it good.'

The stock from a pigeon is unique. It's much better than quail or duck.

I travel on 150 flights a year; I am everywhere.

Chinese cuisine has so much diversity, the area it covers is so great and so is the taste.

All the earrings are mostly crosses. It's kind of a contradiction to wear it since I'm known as the Demon Chef. They're all custom-made. Some are Tiffany's. Some are Stephen Webster from England.

I love cooking with wine.

Foie gras is a breeze to cook, something that can't go wrong.

I especially like to make my own ginkgo soup, bean curd sheet soup, and red bean soup. This way, I can control the sugar portions.

I want to take Chinese cooking to the next level and bury the takeaway mentality.

While you can have the cult of the celebrity chef, the food still must taste good.

Cooking is physical; it's easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it - what else is there to it?