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Ping Coombes
Ping Coombes is a British cook and winner of 2014's MasterChef competition broadcast on BBC One. Early life Coombes is of Malaysian Chinese heritage and was raised in Ipoh, Malaysia. Although she was surrounded and influenced by wonderful food around her, she drew her inspiration from her mother. She moved to the UK to study at Oxford in 2000. Only after arriving in the UK did she begin to experiment with Malaysian food. She lives just outside Bath with her husband Andrew and their daughters Alexa and Luna and divides her time between Bath and London. MasterChef Before joining MasterChef, Coombes worked as an assistant hotel manager for a private hospital. After being made redundant, Coombes entered MasterChef to do something fun. Her final menu was to prepare a three-course meal for judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace. Coombes' winning menu consisted of: * First course: ''a Chicken and Shitake Mushroom Broth, with Pork and Crab Dumplings wrapped with Egg Noodles topped with ...
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