Ping Coombes, winner of MasterChef UK 2014, may be part Briton now, but her heart and stomach are 100% Malaysian.
In an exclusive Skype interview with Ipoh-born Catherine Chin Wan Ping – better known as Ping Coombes on Masterchef UK, the popular reality TV series on BBC One – The Star discovers, among other things, how the self-taught 35-year-old cook expressly wanted to showcase Malaysian dishes on the show, almost got booted when judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace thought her "Ipoh chicken rice" was too simple, and most surprisingly, that when she first went to Britain 14 years ago to study, she didn’t know how to boil an egg.
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