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Cross-cultural chef | By Yvonne Lim |
How does a simple, small-town lad become a cook show host on national television? With a good head on his shoulders, a positive outlook on life, a persevering spirit, a determined fixation on pursuing his dreams and the willingness to jump at any opportunity. And, of course, having a love for food!
 Sherson … food can build better relationships
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Chef Sherson Lian, who is of British and Chinese parentage, is the host of the Malay cook show, 5 Rencah, 5 Rasa on TV3. The show features mostly Malay cuisine and Lian hosts the show in fluent Malay.
He attributes his passion for cooking to his mother, who is herself, a fantastic cook and fluency in Bahasa Malaysia to just being Malaysian.
“Food,” explains Sherson “can be a platform for so many things”. And one of the "things" that food can do, according to him, is to build better relationships.
“In our country, the various races regularly meet in a working capacity. But those are just obligatory working relationships. However, to learn a dish, you have to go beyond that obligatory working relationship. You have to lower your pride. Hence you move from an impersonal relationship to a more personal one."
By doing the show, he hopes -- as a Chinese cooking Malay food – to encourage other Malaysians to learn to cook one another’s dishes and through that, foster better relationships with one another
But, what actually got him into cooking? Need that arose out of adversity.
In 1994, at the time of the global economic crisis, Sherson’s father's jewellery business took a plunge, because no one wanted to buy jewellery then. At work… you need to believe in what you love to do
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To support her family financially, Mrs Lian opened a small café along Old Klang Road. The café was so small, it did not even have a kitchen. All the cooking had to be done at home and then brought to the café where it was heated up using an oven.
Being the eldest of his three siblings, Sherson had to help out. At the age of 10, he had learnt how to peel onions and garlic for his mother, and by 12, he was serving customers, wiping tables and learning to cook.
As business in the café picked up, Mrs Lian decided to upgrade – she bought the lot next door, built a kitchen and transformed her tiny café into a restaurant.
Her special roti john quickly became a popular favourite among the locals. Mr Lian took on a business partner and, together, they opened a few more restaurants in Kajang and Ampang and hired chefs to manage them.
Sherson spent all his school holidays helping his family run their flourishing restaurant business. With a passion for food and cooking ingrained in him from a young age, Sherson went from restaurant to restaurant, picking up recipes and skills from different chefs.
Finally, at 17, upon completing SPM, Mr Lian saw the potential in his son and his love for the culinary arts, and gave Sherson a restaurant of his own to manage.
It was no small feat to manage a restaurant, but the encouragement and support of his father, who allowed him the space to make his own decisions, gave him the confidence to overcome the challenges he faced.
Two years later saw Mr Lian and his business partner parted ways. By that time, the Lian family had plans to build a resort atop a hill they own – the “Holy Ghost Hill” (officially renamed “Bukit Hantu”) -- in Alor Gajah, Malacca.
Sherson was then in the midst of completing a six-month Hotel Industry Apprenticeship Scheme with Taylors College that came with a one-year attachment to a hotel -- which he would later forfeit to work in his family resort.
Half a year later, construction of the El Sanctuary hill resort was finished. The family sold their restaurants and moved back to their hometown in Malacca to open El Sanctuary which they run to this day.
El Sanctuary is best known for its comforting surrounding foliage and the food. A packaged deal for a night at El Sanctuary includes home-cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner personally prepared by Sherson and his mother.
It was right in his own kitchen where he finally got his “big break”.
One day, a guest with connections with TV3 who was staying at the resort asked him if he would like to star as a host on a television cook show. Without hesitation, Sherson replied “Yes!” A week later, he went in for an audition at Sri Pentas.
“The room was so cold,” he recalls.
“They gave me a demo script and five ingredients that were not even on the script, and told me to present (the food items). I was so nervous, plus the script was in BM! At the first shoot, I was practically shouting and the producer had to tell me to ‘chill’! But after a few rounds it was ok.”
Sherson describes the week that followed his audition as full of suspense and anticipation. “I didn’t know if I would get it,” he confessed. “I became even more anxious when I came out (of Sri Pentas) and realized I wasn’t the only one auditioning.”
Then one day, while cooking at El Sanctuary, a text came saying he got the part. “I started yelling like a madman in the kitchen!”
And his career took off. Now, he is branching out.
“I want to build a burger franchise, using my own burger sauce,” he says. Sherson hopes to set up burger stalls all over the nation and engage people who are in need of work or financial aid to manage those stalls.
“When they have made enough money," he says, “they can buy the stall from me and it will be theirs.”
Currently the budding entrepreneur chef is researching patties for his burgers and sending in business proposals to new factories in Alor Gajah to produce his burger patties.
“Be brave, take risks, mix with the right people and pray,” says Sherson, a man of faith, to anyone out there who has a dream. “You need to believe in what you love to do.”
He tells parents whose children have "unconventional ambitions", to let them choose what they want to do. “They are the ones who have to live their lives.”
With such determination and passion, as well as the unconditional support from his family, Chef Sherson is on his way to success.
http://goodtimes.my/index.php/Sports-Entertainment/cross-cultural-chef.html
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Ader 1 episod tu aku tgk lg klakar...dia Amik buah labu pas2 dia debut labi...so, lps cameraman btul kn die gelak...siap ckp "eh labu, labi tu yg berenang kn". Aku tergelak je sensorang dgr...pastu baling periuk ke atas siap pusing2 jatuh kat cameraman...abg cameraman tu tlg amik periuk tu siap goyang2 jari...pastu Mamat ni warning " jgn Cuba tiru aksi ini di Rumah" hahaha dia mmg spontan ar... |
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Reply 7# MS.WONG
ado ulangan ko tak? |
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Reply 79# noryla
adik dia nama shearman lian. masa last diorg nyanyi2 tu ada nmpk one lady dukung baby ala2 mix skit. rasanya yg tu wife dia
http://www.facebook.com/shearman.lian?sk=wall
ni wife
http://www.facebook.com/sarahcharles.lian |
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Dia dah jawab kat fanpage sorg fan tanya dia gay ke? Dia jawab sendiri yg dia straight.... aku malas nak tepek...
korg carik sendiri. Nama fan yang tanya tu Iskandar Bai (entah2 org forum ni) |
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Berry teruja dengan dia ni sejak first episod 5 Rrrrenccahhh 5 Rrrrasa (tlg sebut ikut slang shers). Pakkallah jarang tengok tv sekarang.
baru-baru nie ada kenduri kawin kat kampung, sambil rewang-rewang dengan makcik-makcik sebutlah 5 rrrenncahh 5 rrrasa, amboi rupanya makcik-makcik kampung pun semua suka dia.
Dia dah kahwin ke? |
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encomm nye dia...dh kawin ekk |
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wehhh aku suke chef nii!!
sore die wt aku horny gituu...
dgr die nyanyi...trus jatuh chentaaaa.....auwww.... |
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aku suka dia sgt2. .
punye exited nk tgk "siapa di rumah". .siap set alarm lg. .alih2 henset kt atas. .aku dok bwh. . mmg terbaek la. . .
bila ulangan rancangan nie wei???aku frust gile x dapat tgk ni. .dah la semalam smpt tgk 5 minit je 5 rencah 5 rasa semalam. . .frust berganda2 ni!!! |
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Post Last Edit by cik_ted143 at 12-6-2012 10:03
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Post Last Edit by shernazz at 12-6-2012 10:22
aku teruja klau tgk 5 rencah 5 rasa ...dgr dia berckp je aku dh excited nk masak....bersahaja tu yg ...
g2606 Post at 11-6-2012 16:39 
nok..minah icip2 tu same klas dengan laki aku mase kat kolej dulu okeh..kecik aje dia ni.. |
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Tak sempat nak tgk kat Tv so aku tgk kat tontong je..tapi memang best la dia ni, resepi semua senang2 je & bahan2 pun senang nak dpt |
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Untung sapa jd marka Chef ni, dah la hensem, pandai masak. Nak makan apa order jah...  |
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Start suke Sherson ni masa rancangan 5 Rencah 5 Rasa. Mak dia mat saleh kan. dia cakap Melayu lagi fasih daripada anak2 Melayu yang mixed mat saleh. hensem tapi kulit muka ada parut jerawat |
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tt tolong edit Nama dia bleh x? Sherson Lian not Sherson Liam. |
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Bila baca komen korang pasal rancangan Icip Icip kat channel 703 tu pun aku nak komen sikit. apa yang best sangat Anis Nabila tu sampai AFC amik dia wat program masakan?? dah la dia tu aku tak pernah kenal langsung sebelum ni. dia masak macam tak sedap je aku tgk. semua main instant je. takat ikan masak kicap tu tak payah la. ni sure ada orang dalam yang tolong |
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Post time 12-6-2012 01:50 AM
