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Outlook: Recipes and storytelling: changing perceptions of Chinese food

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Elizabeth Chong

23/05/2022 GMT

Recipes and storytelling: changing perceptions of Chinese food

BBC World Service - Outlook, Recipes and storytelling: changing perceptions of Chinese food

Elizabeth Chong has transformed the reputation of Chinese food and culture in Australia

In Australia Elizabeth Chong is a household name. She's a celebrity chef and has done more than anyone – except possibly her father – to popularise Chinese cuisine. In her cookery classes and then on TV she would share her family's stories as well as recipes, and won millions of fans, both among native-born Australians and newly arrived Asian immigrants. And yet Elizabeth nearly wasn't allowed in to Australia at all. Jo Fidgen hears her story.

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Presenter: Jo Fidgen 
Producer: Katy Takatsuki

(Photo: Elizabeth Chong receives her 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honour medal. Credit: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

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