WORLD GOURMET SUMMIT 2007
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N K & Melina Yong - Official Wine Consultants

Dr N K Yong joined the International Wine and Food Society (IWFS), Singapore in 1982, and was elected Chairman of the World Council of Management of the IWFS in October 1992, where he served for four years to October 1996. He is also currently the honourary secretary of Asian-Pacific Zone Committee (APZC). For further recognition of his services to French wines, the President of the French Republic conferred on him the title of Officier de l’Orde National Du Mérite in 2004.

Melina Teo-Yong is an amateur chef for whom cooking is both hobby and passion. In 1986 she won the Best Amateur Chef award in Hotel Meridien’s Cuisineart Competition, (three-star chef Louis Outhier was the presiding judge). She has been guest-chef in Puligny-Montrachet’s Hotel Le Montrachet, in the Napa Valley Cakebread Cellars’ Harvest Work-shop in 1991; at Château Cos D’Estournel in Bordeaux (April 1996) and Domaine Romanée-Conti in Burgundy (April 1999).