A Household Name in Malaysia

1. A household name in Malaysia, Redzuawan bin Ismail, better known as Chef Wan, has been featured in various cooking programmes on television, delighting audiences with his wit and humour while demonstrating his cooking prowess. He has appeared on Malaysian television programmes, including his very own show, Chef Wan. Currently he is hosting Citarasa Sedunia Gas Petronas, a cooking travelogue and educational documentary series. He has also hosted shows in Singapore, Australia, Norway and the United States and appears regularly as a guest chef in many other countries. Chef Wan is an accountant by training but gave up the profession for his greater love, cooking. He earned an Associate Degree in Professional Chef Training and Hotel management from the California Culinary Academy, San Francisco, and a degree at the Ritz Hotel's Ritz Escoffier Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise, Paris. Today he is a visiting chef to cooking schools such as the Ritz Hotel's Ritz Escoffier Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise in Paris, the Cipriani Cooking School in Venice, and other culinary academies in London, Australia and Singapore. Chef Wan is also a food critic and writer for several magazines in Malaysia, has produced four successful cookery books and is a founding partnerof Wan Creations Sdn. Bhd., a company marketing his Chef Wan range of cooking sauces and dips. Finally, as if he didn't have enough to do, Chef Wan is also an actor. He has acted in two successful films and has appeared in comedy theatre.