Alvin Quah

Biography

TOPICS: MC, HOST, CELEBRITY, CHEF

Excitable, affable and unfailingly enthusiastic, Alvin is poles apart from the stereotype of a science expert. After numerous years studying, and with a pharmaceutical career behind him, Alvin says that MasterChef Australia has finally given him the opportunity to do something for himself.

With a Malaysian background, Alvin moved to Australia in his late teens to study at Melbourne University, and says that his cooking is influenced by his heritage.
“My mum is my inspiration,” says Alvin, who grew up in a Buddhist household. “I used to hang around the kitchen watching her as a child. She would never use measurements, her cooking was instinctive”.

Having won a place in the Top 24, Alvin is certain that he can’t go back to his old desk job. “I’d be really worried about going back to my old job, sitting in front of the computer feeling suffocated and stifled after so many opportunities to be myself and express my creativity.”

A MasterChef Australia fan from last year, there is one judge, and one previous contestant that Alvin is desperate to meet.

“For me, Matt Preston is the yardstick,” he smiles. “There is something knowledgeable and scary about him at the same time. When he says something’s great, it lifts you. I’ll be hanging on his every word!”

“And I definitely want to meet Poh. I love her! She cooked a lot of things last year that I can identify with and she is just an amazing person. I even named a plant after her at home!”

Based in NSW, travels Australia wide (extra fees involved).