(VNF) - Chefs Nik Michael Imran and Sarah Benjamin have come to Vietnam as part of the Asian Food Channel hit Cooking for Love’s second season.

Chefs Nik Michael Imran and Sarah Benjamin have come to Vietnam to promote Cooking For Love Season Two. (Photo: Asian Food Channel)

The series follows Malaysian celebrity chef Nik Michael Imran and Asian Food Channel host Sarah Benjamin as they pit their culinary chops and creativity while bringing families together with food. Each episode, Nik and Sarah finds out more about the family to create simple but delicious dishes loved by everyone.

With each episode capturing a family’s unique story, the competitive duo not only try to challenge each other but also themselves as they draw culinary inspiration from each personalised story and create their final dishes.

They started the trip to Vietnam on October 31^st to exchange with Vietnamese chefs and learn about the local cuisine. This is the first time Imran has travelled to Vietnam while for Benjamin, it’s the second one.

Episode four, entitled ‘The Unsung Hero’, focuses on Vietnamese food. It’s scheduled to be broadcast this month. Part of the episode tells the story of Adele Cheah, who was happily married for 10 years when her husband was suddenly taken away from their family in a fatal drowning accident.

With her husband’s birthday coming up, Cheah is reminded of the positive influence he had on her life and others, and she celebrates with a cuisine they both enjoyed having together – Vietnamese, namely Pho (beef noodle) and Goi cuon (Vietnamese summer rolls). Imran and Benjamin will compete to cook these local dishes.

Pho (beef noodle). (Source: Internet)

Vietnamese Shrimp Summer Rolls. (Source: Internet)

Benjamin is one of the two winners of the first season of Food Hero. Born in Singapore to a British father and a Peranakan-Chinese mother, she grew up helping her parents and grandmother cook at home.

Chef Imran is of Australian-Malaysian heritage and is the eldest of six siblings. Born in Malaysia, he grew up under the cooking influence of his father, who used to own an Italian restaurant in Brisbane, Australia. He starred in Asian Food Channel original series Tea Twist, in which he created yummy tea-based drinks, and Cooking for Love, where he and his co-star, Sarah Benjamin are pitted against each other to create affordable dishes for special family events. Cooking for Love is broadcast every Thursday.

“I love cha ca (charcoal grilled fish) of Vietnam,” said Benjamin. “The Vietnamese cuisine is so rich that we just want to have more time to learn about it.”

The Asian Food Channel (AFC) is the region’s leading food-focused channel that celebrates the unique Asian culinary experience with the added touch of global flavour. AFC entertains viewers with a range of local and international content from reality, lifestyle to travelogue programme formats./.

( Compiled by VNF )