Catherine Chin Wan Ping Coombes, an Ipoh-born, was the winner of the tenth series of BBC One’s cooking programme MasterChef. The full-time mum cooked a three-course Malaysian-inspired meal to beat graduate Jack Lucas and robotics engineer Luke Owen in the final, after eight weeks of competition. Ping, who attributes her cooking skills to her mother and grandmother, stated that she first started cooking while studying in Oxford, and learnt to recreate her mother’s dishes to satisfy her cravings. She formerly worked as an assistant hotel manager of a private hospital