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All white on the night: when MasterChef hit the ‘bamboo ceiling’, this Asian-Australian stopped watching – Sydney Morning Herald
Asian-Australians may have won the contest most often, but this year’s MasterChef was stacked against them, argues one disappointed viewer.
I didnt watch the MasterChef finale this week. I had felt pointlessly possessive over who might win that trophy for months, and then it suddenly didnt matter who won because my team had already lost.
MasterChef is all youve really got if youre looking for Asian-Australian faces on TV. Which is why it hurt so much when Reynold Poernomo, the only Asian-Australian to make the top five, was eliminated from the competition, making the finale a showdown between two (talented) white chefs, Emelia Jack…
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