Neighbourhood Chef 2
Neighbourhood Chef 2 () is a cooking competition organised by MediaCorp and broadcast every Wednesday at 8:00 pm on Channel 8 in Singapore. Premiering 13 May 2015, Quan Yi Fong replaced Kym Ng as co-host. Mark Lee returns as main host in the second season. In celebrating the nation's SG50, contestants from different races and constituency come together to pit their cooking skills on a specific food ingredient of the week.
In each episode, hosts will shout out the show's slogan: In every neighborhood, there are neighborhood chefs ().
The show sponsor's are: Giant Hypermarket, Sealy and Cuckoo Singapore.
Recruitment Exercise/Audition
Episode No |
Food Theme |
Audition Date |
Location |
Celebrity Chef Judges |
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1 |
Crab |
1 February 2015 |
Pek Kio Community Center |
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2 |
Chicken Wings |
Bishan Community Center & Jalan Besar Community Center |
Willin Low & Ho Tien Tsai |
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3 |
Pork Belly |
15 March 2015 |
Queenstown Community Center |
Daniel Koh & Sebastian Goh |
4 |
Fish Head |
1 February 2015 |
Pek Kio Community Center & Bishan Community Center |
Pung Lu Tin & Eric Neo |
5 |
Sotong |
Jurong Spring Community Centre |
Tan Yong Hua & Daniel Koh |
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6 |
Beef |
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Lotus Root |
15 March 2015 |
Queenstown Community Center |
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Prawns |
25 April 2015 |
Bukit Merah Community Center |
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Chicken |
25 April 2015 |
Bukit Merah Community Center |
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Tofu |
10 May 2015 |
Cheng San Community Center |
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Mushroom |
10 May 2015 |
Cheng San Community Center |
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Duck |
17 May 2015 |
Toa Payoh West Community Center |
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Vegetarian Ingredients |
17 May 2015 & 24 May 2015 |
Toa Payoh West Community Center & Tanjong Pagar Community Center |
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Fruits |
24 May 2015 |
Tanjong Pagar Community Center |
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Challenge
TV adverts will be broadcast around Singapore to promote each dish theme (2 dishes, e.g.: Cucumbers or Mango) and the location (Community Centers) for audition. Contestants will cook and prepare the dish at home and bring to the selected Community Centers for the celebrity chef judges for audition. After each audition only 4 will enter the finals for each dish theme.
During the finals, each episode's final 4 contestants will demonstrate on how to prepare the dish to the hosts and the 3 celebrity chef judges for critique. Each of the celebrity chef judge holds 25% of the total score, making it 75%. The other 25% of the scores will constitute from 10 residents living around Singapore. After tabulating the scores, the winner will take home $4,000 worth of cash and kitchen appliances and named the Neighborhood Chef. The other 3 contestants will walk away with $300 worth of kitchen appliances.
Episodes
Legend: Male Female
Episode No. |
Challenge Location |
Original air date {{Episode list |
EpisodeNumber = 1 |
Title = Toa Payoh HDB Hub |
OriginalAirDate = May 13, 2015 |
ShortSummary = Theme: Crab 螃蟹
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Episode No. |
Challenge Location |
Original air date {{Episode list |
EpisodeNumber = 2 |
Title = Hougang Central |
OriginalAirDate = May 20, 2015 |
ShortSummary = Theme: Chicken Wings 鸡翅膀
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Episode No. |
Challenge Location |
Original air date {{Episode list |
EpisodeNumber = 3 |
Title = Open space between Redhill Market & Redhill Food Center |
OriginalAirDate = May 27, 2015 |
ShortSummary = Theme: Pork Belly 三层肉
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Episode No. |
Challenge Location |
Original air date {{Episode list |
EpisodeNumber = 4 |
Title = Toa Payoh HDB Hub |
OriginalAirDate = June 3, 2015 |
ShortSummary = Theme: Fish Head 鱼头
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Episode No. |
Challenge Location |
Original air date {{Episode list |
EpisodeNumber = 5 |
Title = Toa Payoh HDB Hub |
OriginalAirDate = June 10, 2015 |
ShortSummary = Theme: Sotong 苏东
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