I had no idea beforehand that it would be in Singapore - their Tourism Board had something to do with that, if you know I mean - but of all places, what the...?! Perhaps the Malaysian Tourism people should shell out money for Top Chef to do a stint there instead of paying Martha Stewart a shitload of money for her 9 day Malaysian vacation, WTF.
I was also not surprised to see K.F Seetoh as the local guest judge, who took the finalists on a street food tour around Singapore and later judge them in Part 1. Must not be easy trying to pick which places to bring them to with what Singapore has to offer. At least he didn't take them to the yong tau foo place, which is a bone of contention between Malaysia and Singapore because they each claim that it's theirs.There's a long list of dishes still being argued over somewhere.
I also had to get used to the idea of the show being so close to home (well, several hours away, but you get the drift), which was... woah.
I was also surprised to see Elaine Daly at the Food & Wine party in the elimination challenge in Part 1 - my first thought was, "What was SHE doing there?"
Even though Angelo was down with some bug, the guy really did luck out getting the fastest winner in Top Chef history as his sous chef; he would've been screwed with any of the others. And those guys were lucky they didn't get the eliminated fellow contestants as their sous chefs too.
A boring ending to an otherwise meh season.
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