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Multi-skilled chancellors display cooking prowess

He started the day slicing up a kilo of onions.

He then warmed up with a 3 hour low skilled lunch prep for a 21st. Then after excusing himself slightly early from the party, he zipped away in his silver car to fetch the ingredients for the nights IRON CHEF MALAYSIAN DEBUT.

I speak of none other than iron chef master specitim, who together with 'tag' team-mate iron chef master yeoh make IRON CHEF MALAYSIAN.

Tim lathered salt and marinade over a slab of pork belly under the watchful eye of the Arch Iron Chef Grand Master tim's very own father (who's cooking is simply mouth wateringly delicious). He expertly crackled the skin in the oven by a specific skill, in an exercise that appeared to require chi silently humming over the meat.

Meanwhile, on the kitchen bench, master iron chef Yeoh inadvertently displayed his ninja swordsmanship with a plain kitchen knife. Round onions turned into cubes, carrots as good as engagement rings, and garlic into glistening sand.

A raging flame awaited them. Undaunted by the gassy fury, iron chef specitim tamed the fire. It is at this point, that 'Hong sil tofu' evolved to the next generation. It was neither red, nor remotely resembled its former now superceded glory. Beyond the imaginings or expectations of viewers, tasters, and eventually eaters, history was performed before their very eyes.

Specitim's nose twitched. He sensed that the sil yook was ready. A hush fell over the entire kitchen. A couragous stroll and a ripple of the muscles brought him to the white doors of the oven. Then, he laid on the chopping board a wicked looking piece of sil yook you could just pick up and sink your teeth into.

It then became as exciting as wood chopping at the easter show - displays of raw power chipping away at tree trunks accompanied by grunts and manly perspiration. Meat cleaver in hand, specitim heavily landed the blade right through the meat. The cuts were performed with surgical accuracy. The strength with woodchopping might.

But that was not all.

The iron chef malaysians were required to perform live. Fearlessly they packed bags of ingredients, and the two special dishes into tupperware and began to leave.

But alack. Specitim was so in tune with his dishes, that he decided to become one with the sauce. Just moments before leaving, an impulse of the food to honour their master, suddenly found its wish granted, all over his shirt.

Time was now pressing. The masters zipped towards the house of nervous fans, who have heard of their legend, but yet to bask it its tantalizing rewards.

The infamous cha kuay teow, expertly cooked and trialed a week ago, was now to share its glory with the 12 (The 12 being the unsuspecting dinner guests). It took sweat, it took power, it took two whole rounds of cooking.

Settled over an exquisite dinner table set, the masters rested their muscles and waited for the reaction of the party.

It is as though their faces had caught a flame that glowed from the inside. Profuse nods of approval and mmmmmmmm's whooshed along the the table. The topic of conversation was immediately of much appraisal with satisfied grins, glasses would have been raised, but master iron chef specitim, and master iron chef yeoh, bowed their heads in humble acknowledgement and proceeded to feast together with the common.

Iron chef malaysian have struck again.