Masterchef Singapore Recaps!!!

  TLDR: SWTGH Rocks/ Fuck Empire == Okay guys, I've just had 1 hour of breathtaking angina, can we please give some credit where credit is due and congratulate Channel 5 (or rather the kickass outsourced production house) on giving us the most gripping hour of reality TV produced in Singapore since the Phua Chu Kang episode of The Amazing Race. This episode gave us everything: angina, laosai, stomach cramps, asthmatic episodes, deep crying, and one of the most ignominious anti-climaxes of the series so far. PART ONE The contestants are blindfolded and made to cha-cha out of the Masterchef kitchen like a schoolyard game of Chicken & Eagle. To add to the humiliation, they're thrown for some reason into a party bus, complete with strobe-lights and I assume Top 40s EDM. Considering what they're about to face, i.e. a trip back to 19th century colonial Singapore, down to its racialized divide-and-conquer labour policies, this is really crass and stupid, and very Mediacorp. Bl...

  [spoiler alert, but lol srsly] [TLDR: Shams rocks] First of all, fuck Toggle for making me get a VPN to watch this show. PART ONE The durian challenge was actually all kinds of genius, but when Bjorn said before the reveal that the mystery ingredient is "a toxic ingredient that splits households" there was literally no way anyone would believe a pufferfish or raw potatoes was in that smoking biohazard box. Whoever's writing his lines needs to take some notes/hire me. Takeaways From this Challenge #1: it's clear Zander can only do hipster cafe food. So far we've had 2 fusion risottos, breaded mystery meat, molten lava cake, and now innovative lasagne. So if he wins this and gets a restaurant, you all know it'll close down in a year. Let's keep things in perspective. He's cute but not that cute. say no to #hipstercafe trash. #2: When Damien interviews Sharon with the good hair at the start and exclaims "another sambal?" I wanted to scream P...

Guys I cannot recommend Masterchef Singapore enough. It's on tonight please watch it so I can talk about it to people. It's the kind of show whose opening salvo was a SAMBAL BELACAN challenge (ed: and the judgment was as simple as taking a bite and going "correct"). The contestants are so so endearing and down to earth and lovely except for Aaron, the douchy Progressive Zichar guy, who makes santan espuma and 42 degree eggs. I am totally waiting for a showdown between him and the beautiful Shamsydar and her Modern Malay Cuisine superpowers that can turn assam pedas sauce into sambal tumis without a sous vide machine. I hope the show doesn't jump the shark, which is a distinct possibility cuz the previews show some ang moh celebrity chef coming in to run a restaurant service + tonight's ep looks like some reality tv nonsense, but omg Sharon Gonzago with the good hair made Nasi Ulam on the last episode, and we all cried at her one pot Eurasian curry with a sad f...