‘6-pack chef’ Wallace Wong on breaking records, fitness and stepping away from restaurants
Chinese-Canadian chef Wallace Wong went from obese kid to award-winning bodybuilder while working with some of the best chefs along the way
One hundred and sixty-six. That is how many slices of cucumber that Chinese-Canadian chef Wallace Wong can chop in 30 seconds while blindfolded.
He set the Guinness World Record in 2023 while filming for the Italian reality show Lo Show Dei Record, or The Records Show, in which participants attempt to break records. He has since set or broken 10 others, all for chopping vegetables or fruit at breakneck speed.
Known as the “six-pack chef”, Wong’s dedication to food and fitness stems from when he was growing up in Ontario, Canada, with his parents, who are from Hong Kong.
“My love for food came from being Chinese, being Cantonese,” he says.
As a child, he and his family would often go for dim sum and hotpot – cherished memories that sparked his love for food.