"I can remember walking down Lygon Street and smelling the dope in the air and thinking, this is just crazy" - Tony Tan

One of Australia’s most respected chefs, food writers, and teachers, Tony Tan trained at La Varenne in France and Leith’s School of Food and Wine in England.

He’s owned and cooked at Shakahari in Melbourne and Tatlers Cafe in Sydney, presented The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia, and guested on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations where he told Mr Bourdain that he was scared of him because of his frequent dropping of the F-word.

A Renaissance History and Chinese Language graduate he is fluent in several languages - learning French just so that he could read French cook books…which make up some of the 3,000 in his collection.

On the menu is; mum's famous roast chicken, sister's famous laksa, coconut cream pie, and potatoes in Trentham, and his latest cookbook Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class will revitalise your connection to the melting pot of Asian cooking.

Tony's social cause is the wonderful Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Foundation.

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