Louisa So wins 'Beautiful Cooking'

Friday September 8, 2006 Hong Kong

Last week's "Beautiful Cooking Heaven and Hell Challenge Final" achieved average ratings of 39 points, peaking at 44 points. A celebratory event was held yesterday attended by hosts Ronald Cheng, Alex Fong and Edmond Leung, together with the five female hostesses, champion Louisa So and guest Stephy Tang.

To celebrate the event, Ronald and Edmond lit the fire for the wok, whilst Alex and the girls gave a diving display. Afterwards, they opened the champagne, but when Alex tried to spray the girls, he hit Stephy in the face instead. He then went on to say how insincere his partners were, leaving him to do the diving on his own. Ronald was wearing a face mask at the event and he explained that he was suffering from nasal allergy and so he was unable to dive. "Beautiful Cooking" will be filming a further four episodes, including one "Beautiful Men Cooking" episode, where the three hosts will take their places behind the cooking counters. Ronald says that his cooking skills are acceptable. As for Louisa's win being questioned, he explains that this was down to Nat Chan saying the wrong thing. Edmond claims to be the messenger from Hell in the kitchen because he has no idea about cooking.

Louisa has been criticised on the internet by people who say that the result was fixed because Nat Chan had said he prefered Chinese Food, but still voted for Louisa. She didn't mind too much about the comments because she knows that some fans have said they would like to try her cooking too. She says that the best person to ask would be the producer. The show's producer Chin Kwok Wai says that the result was discussed by the judges in private and maybe they said some strange things that led to this misunderstanding. He says that the results had been agreed earlier on in the show and the rose presentation ceremony was just to add to the atmosphere. Louisa says that she was happy to have taken part and she now has three or four advertising jobs and even some offers from people to publish some books and for her to host cookery programmes. She says: "I feel like the shoots after the rain." She also says that these two months have been like a dream for her.

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