Chef Elizabeth Haigh

Elizabeth Haigh is a Singaporean-born English YouTuber and chef known for owning a Singaporean kopitiam Mei Mei, located in Borough Market. She gained fame after being featured on mrnigelng's videos, which gained her nickname of Auntie Liz.
Haigh published her recipe book Makan in May 2021.
==Early life==
Born in Singapore and raised in Maidenhead, Berkshire, Haigh is Singaporean on her mother's side and English on her father's. She trained as an architect at Central St Martin's, London. While there, she realized that she preferred to cook, and was dared to apply to appear on the BBC television series MasterChef.
The 2011 series was her first experience of cooking outside of her home or for her friends. She was eliminated early on in the series.
===Career===
Haigh decided to pursue a career in cooking, and started to work at a gastropub called The Green Oak in Windsor. She then moved to the Royal Oak, Paley Street, where she came under the influence of head chef, Dominic Chapman. While she was working there, she attended culinary classes at Westminster Kingsway College. Haigh also worked at Neil Rankin's Smokehouse restaurant.
In 2015, she co-founded Pidgin with James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy, following on from their supper club, the Secret Larder. Shortly after Pidgin was awarded a star in the 2017 Michelin Guide, she left. She set up a company called Kaizen House, under which she originally planned to launch her own restaurant Shibui in 2018. The restaurant was planned to feature wood fired cooking with elements from different cuisines. Having delayed opening the restaurant due to concerns about the economic climate, she opened Mei Mei, a kopitiam in Borough Market at the end of 2019.
==Personal life==
She is currently married to Steele Haigh, who is allergic to peanuts. She and Steele have one child.
==Controversy==
===Plagiarism allegations===
Her recipe book, released in May 2021, Makan, was withdrawn by British publisher Bloomsbury in October 2021 after being accused copying recipes and sources from Singaporean author Sharon Wee's 2012 Nonya cuisine recipe book Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen.
As a result, she has since privated her Twitter account and has been deleting comments from her tweets.
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