''Beautiful Cooking'' (Traditional Chinese:
美女廚房, literally: Beautiful Girl's Kitchen) is a
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
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 com ...
broadcast on
TVB
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and TVB ...
. The show began broadcasting on May 28, 2006 hosted by
Ronald Cheng
Ronald Cheng Chung-kei (born 9 March 1972) is a Hong Kong singer and actor.
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 father (Dire ...
,
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 - 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 wetlands along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires. T ...
- 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 (for example, Chinese noodles, Filipino noodles, ...
- Tse Siu Wan (謝兆韵)
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Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly '' Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and ''Porteresia'', both wild and domestica ...
- Snow Suen (孫慧雪)
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Tong sui
''Tong sui'' (; ), also known as ''tim tong'', is a collective term for any sweet, warm soup or custard served as a dessert at the end of a meal in Cantonese cuisine. ''Tong sui'' are a Cantonese specialty and many varieties are rarely fou ...
- 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 -
Kibby Lau (劉俐)
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Mandarin oranges
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Yuri Chan (陳蕊蕊)
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Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry (botany), berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa (genus), Musa''. In some countries, Cooking banana, bananas used for ...
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Vanko Wong
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* Radoslav Vanko (born 1983), Slovak model
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* Anton Vanko from Whiplash (Marvel Comics)
Whiplash is the ...
(王淑玲)
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Rice noodle roll
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Ting Lok-sze (丁樂鍶)
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Spring roll
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Lukian Wang (王宝宝)
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Red bean paste
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baozi
Baozi (), Pao-tsih or 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 steamed. They are a variation of '' ...
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Cienna Leung
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(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 (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major Sub-provincial division, sub-provincial city and one of the Special economic zones of China, special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pea ...
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
Cooking television series
2006 Hong Kong television series debuts
2007 Hong Kong television series endings