Penang-born MasterChef winner Adam Liaw awarded RM1.18m grant by Australian govt to produce Malaysian food series
The series tentatively titled ‘Adam Liaw’s Heritage Kitchen’ is funded by the Australian Foreign Affairs and Trade Department to boost diplomacy between Australia and Malaysia. — Picture from Instagram/Adam Liawhost Adam Liaw is set to embark on a new food series that spotlights Malaysian cuisine.
The cookbook author and television presenter was awarded an A$394,900 grant funded by the Australian Foreign Affairs and Trade Department’s “public diplomacy” category. Liaw, 41, received the grant through his company Everyday Media which he is director and secretary of. Grants were given out to applicants whose projects support “the government’s foreign policies and economic diplomacy interests and projects a positive contemporary image of Australia”.Born in Penang to a Malaysian-Chinese father and a Singaporean-English mother, Liaw moved to Adelaide when he was three.
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