Neighborhood Gourmet (TV series)
| Neighborhood Gourmet 街坊廚神 |
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Neighborhood Gourmet official poster
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| Genre | Variety show, Food reality television |
| Created by | Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited |
| Presented by |
Kitty Yuen King Kong Lee |
| Narrated by | (Sr. 1 - Present) (Sr. 3 - Present) |
| Theme music composer | Yip Siu Chung |
| Opening theme | Neighborhood Chef (街坊廚神) by Kitty Yuen & King Kong Lee |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Sandy Yu |
| Producer(s) | Wong Chung Ho |
| Location(s) |
(Sr.1): Hong Kong (Sr.2): Hong Kong, Macau (Sr.3): Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia |
| Camera setup | Multi camera, Hand-held camera |
| Running time | 20 minutes (Sr. 1) 45 minutes (Sr. 2 - Present) |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
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| Original network | TVB Jade, HD Jade |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 3 May 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Neighborhood Gourmet (Chinese: 街坊廚神; Jyutping: Gaai1 Fong1 Ceoi4 San1; literally "Neighborhood Chef") is a Hong Kong variety food reality television series produced by TVB, hosted by Kitty Yuen and King Kong Lee. Each episode Yuen and Lee tour a different neighborhood in or around Hong Kong to scope out the most unusual and best food offerings in that neighborhood. During midway through each episode two new artistes (male and female) will tag along with the shows two main host to sample food during the viewer recommendation segment of the show. These two new artistes will also assist the host during the end cooking competition segment. Series 1 began broadcast on May 3, 2011 TVB Jade weekdays during its 10:30 to 11:00 pm time slot with a total of 29 episodes. Series 2 began broadcast on November 18, 2012 TVB Jade Sundays during its 8:00 to 9:00 pm timeslot with a total of 18 episodes. Series 3 began broadcast on April 26, 2015 on TVB Jade Sundays suring it 7:35 to 8:30 timeslot with an expected 18 episodes total. This series will be filmed abroad focusing on each countries specialty cuisine instead of neighborhoods, but the shows format will remain the same.
Each episode, host's Kitty Yuen and King Kong Lee visit a different neighborhood in and around the Hong Kong area, sampling unique food offerings and critiquing their comments about the food and establishment's atmosphere. They also visit food establishments recommended by viewer blog messages. Near the later half of the show they visit a local restaurant and meet the chef and owner of the establishment. During their conversations with the chef they ask questions about the uniqueness of the dishes they have sampled, they then choose a dish to duplicate, the chef gives them a quick lesson on how to cook the dish and with assistants by their side, both Yuen and Lee have a competition to see who can best duplicate the chef's dish. The results on who wins are decided by 10 randomly selected passerby who are asked to taste both dishes and vote on who's dish they like better by choosing Yuen's or Lee's cartoon panel board. The one with the most votes wins and the loser is then given a punishment decided by the chef.
Series 2, the broadcast time was expanded from 20 minutes to 45 minutes per episode. The segments remained the same as the first series with more restaurants featured and the addition of the celebrity guest segments.
Series 3, the show is filmed partially abroad in the nearby Asian countries of Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korean. Each country is featured across a number of episodes, with each episode focusing on a specialty dish from that country instead of neighborhoods. A Hong Kong celebrity tags along with the host in minimal scenes to sample food with them and also serve as the "punisher" during the PK challenge results. The series also finds restaurants of that country's cuisine available in Hong Kong. Both host's are given foreign country assistant's abroad and Hong Kong assistants when they're in Hong Kong. Each episode's final competition sometimes takes place at the country they are visiting and sometimes in Hong Kong at a food establishment that specializes in that country's cuisine.
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