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 gary mehigan chef/restaurateur
gary mehigan

gary mehigan -lrb- born 12 february 1967 -rrb- is an english-australian chef , restaurateur and a judge of the network ten series `` masterchef australia '' .
in july 2015 , mehigan began a new tv series called ` far flung with gary mehigan ' where he travelled to various countries in asia such as india , vietnam , laos , hong kong and south korea to learn local cooking techniques and recipes , which he uses as inspiration for a recipe he demonstrates at the end of each episode .
mehigan also co-hosts two shows on australia 's lifestyle food channel , `` good chef , bad chef '' , and `` boy 's weekend '' and appeared at the 2011 `` good food & wine show '' .
mehigan trained at the connaught and le souffle in london before moving to melbourne in 1991 .
he has headed the kitchen in some of melbourne 's most prominent restaurants including browns , burnham beeches country house and hotel sofitel before opening the award-winning fenix in 2000 .
his restaurants include fenix in richmond and maribyrnong boathouse .
he was selected as one of the entrants to the who 's who in australia 2012 edition .
