100 Quotes by Alvin Leung

A dish should have flavor, texture, appearance and smell, but I'm doing it differently. We take Chinese food, play with your sentiments, memories of it, and then take you to the border; you won't fall over the edge, but you get excitement.

Diabetes is not curable. It's sustainable.

The 'Maverick Chef' is one concept that I would really want to do again because I am traveling from country to country taking from what is in that country that is iconic, special, funky, weird and doing it my way. That is something I really enjoy.

Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.

Cooking is physical; it's easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it - what else is there to it?

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

My success rate is about 80 percent. Two of ten dishes won't work.

I don't sleep. I have a notepad next to my bed.

Part of my trademark is my blue sunglasses and cross earrings, which I always have.