Malaysian celebrity chefs that usually come to mind are Chef Wan, MasterChef Australia winner Adam Liaw, and more recently Syabira Yusoff who was crowned as the winner of S13 of the Great British Bake Off.
But what happens when you have celebrities who aren’t exactly good cooks trying to explore new recipes with the help of renowned celebrity chefs? Star vs Food Malaysia which premiered on Astro on 6 April 2021 gave audiences a whole lot of chaos, laughs, and entertainment along the way.
As a result, they have been crowned as the Grand Final Winner of the ‘Best Adaptation of an Existing Format’ category at the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AACA) 2022 which was held on 7 December 2022.
Other winners of the awards included Disney+ Hotstar Malaysia’s ‘Stories That Bring Us Together’ in the ‘Best Short Form Content’ category, Jung Hae-in for the ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role’ category for the drama D.P., and the popular K-drama ‘Yumi’s Cells’ for ‘Best Original Programme by a Streamer/OTT’.
16 countries participated in the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAA’s) this year which was hosted by Singapore. The awards have been established to serve the creative industries as the pinnacle of their achievement in content creation and media production.
Open to the entire Asia Pac region, the AACA honours excellence in craft and technical disciplines across multiple platforms including television, digital, mobile, streaming, and more.
The English-language show was based on Star vs Food India from Discovery Networks and was a co-production with Astro and produced by Creative Stew. Spanning ten episodes, celebrities were tasked with preparing 5-star Malaysian dishes with a twist and put to hard work by top Malaysian chefs.
Some of the local celebrities that were featured heating things up in the kitchen were singer Alif Satar of One in a Million fame and Datuk Aznil Haji Nawawi, the dashing Bront Palarae who was one of the stars of Ola Bola and Dato’ Chef Ismail, statuesque actress Alicia Amin and Chef Florence Tan as well as the OG comedienne Joanne Kam and Chef Nazri Jameson.
See Alif Satar have a lot of fun cooking, wreaking havoc, and even destroying one of his cooking tools here: