Cheong Liew

Cheong Liew (born Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is one of South Australia's best known chefs. He first moved from Malaysia to Melbourne in 1969 to study electrical engineering, but instead became a chef. He then became the owner of the popular Adelaide restaurant Neddys, where the menu consisted of mostly Malaysian and Chinese dishes. He used ingredients in his cooking not many other chefs dared to use at that time; such as pigs feet, whole ducks, and pigs heads. The restaurant closed in 1988 and Liew went on to become a cookery teacher. In 1995 he opened The Grange restaurant at the prestigious Hilton Hotel in Adelaide. The Grange continued to showcase Cheong's creative cuisine and became one of Adelaide's most successful restaurants. After...