MasterChef Asia
Regional home cooks vie for the first MasterChef Asia title.
MasterChef Asia is a regional competitive cooking reality show based on the original British series MasterChef. It aired on Lifetime and TLC, produced by Banijay Entertainment, and featured 15 home cooks from across Asia competing for the title of first MasterChef Asia. The judges were Susur Lee, Bruno Ménard, and Audra Morrice.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Cooking, Reality television
- Judges
- Current
- Pichaya Soontornyanakij
- Kelvin Cheung
- Edward Lee
- Former
- Audra Morrice
- Bruno Ménard
- Susur Lee
- Country
- Singapore (season 1); Macau, China (season 2)
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 17
- Runtime
- 60 minutes
- 90 minutes (season premiere)
- 120 minutes (final)
- Company
- Banijay Entertainment
- Network
- Lifetime (South East Asia)
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Did You Know?
- The programme was broadcast in the Philippines by TV5 every Sunday night at 8pm starting 8 November 2015.
- In Indonesia, it aired every Saturday at 3pm on Global TV.
- In Singapore, it aired on Channel 5 starting at 10:30 p.m. every Sunday.
Elimination table
The elimination table tracks each contestant's progress through the competition. The winner is the cook who won the competition, while the runner-up received second place. A cook who won an individual challenge, such as the Mystery Box Challenge or Invention Test, received an advantage in the next challenge. A cook on the winning team in the Offsite Challenge was safe. A cook on the losing team in the Offsite Challenge was not safe. A cook not selected as a top or bottom entry in an Offsite Team Challenge was marked as safe. A cook who was one of the top entries in an individual challenge but did not win was noted as high. A cook not selected as a top or bottom entry in a challenge was safe. A cook who did not compete in a round was immune from elimination. A cook who was one of the bottom entries in an individual elimination challenge but was not the last to advance was low; if they were the last to advance, they were also low. A cook on the losing team in a Team/Pair Challenge who competed in the Pressure Test and advanced was marked PT; if exempted from the Pressure Test, they were NPT. A cook eliminated from MasterChef was marked ELIM.
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