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Nanaimo. Food was always central to his family life but Wong’s<br />
real culinary life began when his grandmother arrived from<br />
mainland China. “She was a wonderful cook and morning,<br />
noon and night, she was in the kitchen preparing special meals<br />
for us,” says Wong. Discouraged from a cooking career by<br />
his family who viewed it as an undesirable endeavour, Wong<br />
pursued a degree in social work. However, he had an abrupt<br />
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change in his career path while on a trip to Europe. Enticed<br />
and inspired by the food of Spain and France, he returned<br />
home to attend the Food and Beverage Management Program<br />
at Vancouver Community College and then the Culinary Arts<br />
Program at Malaspina University College.<br />
It was here where he won his first Culinary Salon gold<br />
medal and set on a journey to Bocuse d’Or, the most rigorous
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