Chef Wan

Chef Wan

Born	1958[1] Singapore
Education	Associate degree in chef training and hotel management
Official website
http://www.mychefwan.com

Chef Wan is a Malaysian celebrity chef.^[2] His real name is Redzuawan Ismail.^[3]

Career

His early career was as an accountant. He says after seeing the popularity of many types of Asian food in Western countries he decided to promote Malaysia and other South East Asian countries using their food.^[4]

He has an associate degree in Professional Chef Training and Hotel Management from the California Culinary Academy and a Ritz Escoffeir Diploma from the Ritz Hotel. He is currently a brand ambassador for AirAsia.^[5]

In 2009, he won the Best Celebrity Television Chef of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.^[3]

Personal life

In an interview in February 2010, Chef Wan highlighted that he is of mixed ancestry; his father has Riau Malay and Javanese ancestry while his mother is of Nyonya and Japanese descent.^[4][6] Chef Wan has two children, one of whom is Serina Redzuawan, an actress who has appeared in several Malaysian drama series.^[7] Chef Wan's son, Muhammad Nazri bin Redzuawan, is following in his father's footsteps by becoming a chef as well.

References

1. ^ Chef Wan is the 'Food Ambassador of Malaysia', retrieved 11 February 2011
2. ^ http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/7/5/sundaymetro/4247558&sec=sundaymetro
3. ^ ^{a b} http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/14/tvnradio/4499212&sec=tvnradio
4. ^ ^{a b} "Malaysian Celebrity Chef, Chef Wan's TalkAsia Interview Transcript". CNN. 26 August 2004. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/26/talkasia.wan.script/index.html. Retrieved 28 April 2010. 
5. ^ http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/3/22/sundaymetro/3515940&sec=sundaymetro
6. ^ Selling ice to eskimos, 25 February 2010, The Nut Graph
7. ^ "Chef Wan’s daughter, actress Serina weds". The Star Online. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/1/nation/20100101200123&sec=nation. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 

Persondata
Name	Redzuawan bin Ismail
Alternative names	Chef Wan
Short description
Date of birth	1958
Place of birth	Singapore
Date of death
Place of death