The chant that brought Poh Ling Yeow to tears: MasterChef Australia star is overwhelmed as a crowd gets behind her during a stressful challenge
Chef Poh Ling Yeow has returned to MasterChef Australia 10 years after her runner-up season to prove she is worthy of redemption.
And the fan-favourite held back tears on Monday’s episode when an excited crowd repeated a chant just for her.
‘I’m getting really overwhelmed,’ Poh, 47, told viewers as she got emotional at the kind gesture by fans.
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The chant that brought MasterChef Australia star Poh Ling Yeow to tears during a stressful challenge on Monday’s episode
The crowd present at the challenge cheered and shouted ‘Poh, Poh, Poh’, when she, and her co-stars, entered the cooking arena.
With all eyes on her, Poh was taken back by the immense crowd attention and needed to be comforted by her fellow stars.
‘It makes me really think, of how long this journey of MasterChef has been going for. And how much of an impact this show has made on the Australian psyche, and how much they love it and how much they love us,’ she said.
Poh added: ‘It’s just a really lovely feeling.’
‘It’s just a really lovely feeling’: Poh said she enjoyed fans and viewers showing how much they ‘loved’ the chefs, including them chanting her name as she entered the arena
Noisy! Monday’s episode of MasterChef Australia: Back to Win saw the greatest off-site challenge in the show’s history. The contestants filed into a warehouse space to be greeted by a screaming and clapping crowd of fans
Poh was tasked with cooking culurgiones – a Sardinian potato dumpling – during a group challenge between teams.
But as she raced against the clock, Poh struggled to finish her dumplings in time, sending many viewers onto Twitter to vent their frustrations.
After starting out ‘confident’, it wasn’t long before Poh was plagued with problems, with the potato filling taking longer to cook than she anticipated.
Five minutes out from the end of the challenge, she then realised she didn’t have enough filling to make five dumplings.
‘I have enough filling to do two smallish dumplings. I know they’re not going to be plump and amazing like I thought, but I just can’t serve up one dumpling,’ she said.
Ready, set, cook! Poh was tasked with cooking culurgiones – a Sardinian potato dumpling – during a group challenge between teams
In between the bombastic music and the judges having to shout over the immense roar of the crowd, some viewers said they switched off or muted the program, unable to take the noise.
The first half of the show was filmed before coronavirus anti-crowd rules came into affect, but the second half of the season won’t include challenges like this.
MasterChef Australia continues Tuesday at 7.30pm on Channel Ten
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