Biography
Kylie Kwong AM is a television chef, author, television presenter, and restaurateur from Australia. Kwong announced the closure of her eatery in 2019 due to a need for change in her fiftieth year.
Kylie Kwong Age
Kyle, born Kylie Jane Kwong is 55 years old as of 31 October 2024. She was born on 31 October 1969 in Sydney, Australia.
Education
Kwong went to Epping North School as well as Cheltenham Girls High School. She acquired the principles of Cantonese cooking from her mother a third-generation Chinese Australian. She learned her trade at Neil Perry’s Rockpool and Wockpool, and later at Restaurant Manfredi.
Kylie Kwong Husband
Nell, an Australian artist, is Kwong’s wife. Kwong and Nell tied the knot on March 17, 2019.
Kylie Kwong Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Restaurant
Billy Kwong, her first restaurant, opened in the Sydney district of Surry Hills. The name ‘Billy’ in the restaurant stems not from a family member, but from the company’s founding relationship with Sydney’s famous chef Bill Granger. Kwong eventually took over as the sole owner of the restaurant under its former name.
Kwong moved the eatery to larger premises in Potts Point in 2014. Billy Kwong Potts Point was co-owned by Andrew Cibej, a Sydney and Hong Kong chef and restaurateur, and David King, a seismologist and businessman.
“We now use only organic and biodynamic fruit and vegetables, poultry, meat, and noodles,” said the restaurant, pledging to employ organic and biodynamic cuisine. We use organic soy sauces, sugar, vinegar, and oils to flavor our meals, and we sell Fair Trade tea, coffee, and chocolate.” This transformation was undertaken by the restaurant in 2005.
Billy Kwong received the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide’s inaugural Sustainability Award in 2009 in recognition of his environmental initiatives, including the option for diners to donate to a renewable energy credits program purchased from a wind farm in the Chinese province of Hebei. The restaurant exclusively provides filtered Sydney tap water and does not sell bottled water.
Kwong served as master of ceremonies at the Dalai Lama’s public address at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 3, 2009. Kwong’s first tableware collection was on sale in Oxfam stores across Australia on October 1, 2011. The collection, which comprises a soup bowl and rice bowl with matching plates, soup spoon, teapot, teacup, and coffee cup, is a collaboration between Oxfam Australia and Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts, one of Oxfam’s fair trade supplier partners in Vietnam. Kwong announced the closure of her eatery in 2019 due to a need for change in her fiftieth year.
Books (Cookbooks)
Kylie Kwong: Cooking with Heart and Soul was published in October 2003 by Penguin Viking/ABC Books to coincide with her first TV series, which aired on ABC at the same time. Kylie Kwong: Recipes and Stories, her first cookbook, was released by Penguin in April 2003. The television series aired on the Australian ABC as well as Foxtel, LifeStyle Channel, and Discovery Home in the United States.
The LifeStyle Channel announced in late 2001 that a second Kylie Kwong series would be released. Kylie Kwong: Simply Magic would be the title of the six-part television series. This series was then broadcast on the LifeStyle Channel in January 2006, followed by Discovery Home later that year. Simple Chinese Cooking, a new Kylie Kwong book, was published in 2006. Every recipe is accompanied by a full-page color photograph, with the goal of making Chinese cooking as simple as possible.
In the summer of 2008, UKTV Food will air a third series to accompany her new book My China: Stories and Recipes from My Homeland. She featured as a guest chef on the fourth season of MasterChef Australia in 2012. She reappeared in the sixth season as a guest judge and as a guest mentor in the eighth series. She made an appearance on Anh’s Brush with Fame on July 17, 2019.
Kylie Kwong Career
Kwong was designated Ambassador for cuisine, culture, and community for the newly revitalized South Eveleigh precinct in November 2019. Formerly known as the Australian Technology Park, the region has been developed to incorporate a variety of office, retail, food, wellness, and cultural facilities. Kwong’s job is to inspire workers, visitors, and the general public to interact with the area through food, culture, and community activation.
Kylie Kwong took part in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney in 2020. Her original intention was to host a behind-the-scenes event that would explore “the concept of ‘true nourishment’ through food preparation, community service, and sharing respect for the people, stories, and places behind the food that we eat.”
As South Eveleigh’s Ambassador for Food, Culture, and Community, as well as the Wayside Chapel’s Ambassador, activities were planned for the Wayside Chapel and Eveleigh Green in South Eveleigh. With the advent of Covid-19 restrictions, she refocused on cooking and delivering weekly dinners for seven community and health leaders over the course of two months. Conversations with three of these leaders captured the heart of the initiative, which was chronicled under the title True Nourishment for the Biennale.
Kwong opened her own cafeteria-style dining restaurant, Lucky Kwong, in the precinct in May 2021. The restaurant, named after her and her wife’s son who died in 2012, was founded with a focus on quality, ethically produced products and nourishing food.
