America and Japan has their own Iron Chef who battle it out in a TV Kitchen Stadium creating dishes from one secret ingredient that is revealed by the Chairman. Is Lisa Tse the UK’s Iron Chef?

Lisa Tse, head chef and CEO of the award winning Sweet Mandarin restaurant and cookery school headlined at the GMEX Exhibition Centre for a cook-off in Manchester’s very own kitchen stadium. Battling against the clock and hundreds of hungry spectators, Lisa served the nation, and cooked her way through oodles and oodles of noodles, stir fries, dim sum, fruit origami and firecracker. Her secret ingredient for the day was soy sauce (her great grand-father Leung created a soy sauce brand in Guangzhou, China). Lisa has a natural knack of making cooking fun. She teaches members of the public how to make the most ordinary of ingredients into extraordinary dishes, although now and again, Lisa likes to throw in an exotic mix of tofu, udon and bok choy. Even the most experienced cook needs a little inspiration from time to time, and during this cookery demonstration Lisa shared her trade secrets with the audience as well as explaining that dim sum originated from the silk road of China and when translated means ‘from the heart’. Lisa also advises how to pair Chinese food dishes with wines that compliment and bring out the flavours of your favourite recipes. If you want to learn more, join the Sweet Mandarin Cookery School held every Saturday at the Sweet Mandarin restaurant. There are beginner and advance courses and costs £75 per person (which includes a hands on 3 hour course, lunch and recipe sheets). Lisa is also available for demonstrations for special events. TO BOOK Please send a cheque made payable to Lisa Tse to Sweet Mandarin 19 Copperas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 1HS. Web: www.sweetmandarin.com Email: sweetmandarin at gmail dot com.Lisa also Twitters. Follow her @sweetmandarinTo download the press release click here: Is Lisa Tse the UK’s Iron Chef – Press Release