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Bernice Chan
Bernice Chan is a former SCMP Culture writer who is now based in Vancouver, Canada, where she writes compelling stories about food and drink, lifestyle, wellness and the Asian diaspora. She previously co-hosted the award-winning Eat Drink Asia podcast and received a SOPA honourable mention for a video story about a Jamaican-American looking for her Chinese grandfather.
Bernice Chan is a former SCMP Culture writer who is now based in Vancouver, Canada, where she writes compelling stories about food and drink, lifestyle, wellness and the Asian diaspora. She previously co-hosted the award-winning Eat Drink Asia podcast and received a SOPA honourable mention for a video story about a Jamaican-American looking for her Chinese grandfather.
Areas of Expertise:
Lifestyle, food, cultureLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
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Tarek Hassan fell in love with Hong Kong culture as a teen. Now his Gongfu Cafe & Bao in Ottawa, Canada, serves authentic tastes of the city.
A spice derived from the dried inner bark of evergreen trees, cinnamon’s warmth and versatility shine in sweet and savoury dishes alike.
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Originally from the Amalfi Coast, colatura is made from anchovies that are cured in salt to produce a strong, distinctive flavour.
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The Taiwan-born Canadian magician talks about his 2025 Fism World Championship of Magic win and performing for his idols Penn & Teller.
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Online project tells immigrant stories of restaurant and cafe owners from Montreal to Vancouver, and brought its maker and her dad closer.
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Two Chinese chefs are among Asians who cooked for US presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and William Harding who are celebrated in a new book.
Chef Guillaume Galliot uses his mother’s French tomatoes at Caprice in the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, and restaurants from Rao’s to Carbone have bottled their inimitable pasta sauces.
After 10 years in Paris Samuel Lee Sum opened Sensation, a casual fine-dining joint serving exciting Chinese dishes with a French accent.
Talented Asian cooks are pairing the best of British Columbia’s produce with recipes and cooking styles from home.
Nguyen Thi Thanh’s food stall in Ho Chi Minh City was made famous by Anthony Bourdain. She died in Toronto where she was to open a restaurant.
Styles recently bought Hobbs Pickles’ entire stock of sweet pickles, while Anderson revealed on This Morning that she comes from a family of picklers ‘all trying to outdo each other’.
When Stephanie Wong shut her Hong Kong restaurant she needed a breather. Now she is back in the kitchen, having opened a bakery in Vancouver.
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From Ukraine to England, famous chefs and their eateries are keeping their own hives to maximise honey’s flavour and health benefits.
A Chinese-American chef who ‘can’t really cook Chinese food’, Angie Mar of New York’s Le B on her roots in food and not cooking for critics.
