Modern Vietnamese with Gill Dinh Masterchef Top 10 Sunday 20 July

Sunday 20 July

Gill became a top 10 Masterchef contestant in 2024, Season 16. She then worked as a part-time chef at Wollongong contemporary European restaurant K.malu Kitchen and Bar and doing live cooking demonstrations, food expos and workshops

Gill loves to inspire people to cook and to bring them together through food. Growing up in a home influenced by Italian flavours on her Mum’s side and the taste of Vietnam on her Dad’s, meal times in the Dinh household were anything but dull.

As one of four girls, Gillian (Gill) Dinh’s memories of the family dinner table hold much nostalgia and sentiment, as it meant sharing conversations, laughter, and stories over the best meals. Gill recalls often being able to smell what was for dinner from the bus stop, walking home from school.

For Gill, food is love. She has been influenced deeply by both her Mum Doreen and her beloved late Nonna Lina, who gifted her the use of food as a love language; as well as by her late Dad Tommy who taught her intuition in the kitchen, to trust her palette, and to balance flavours and textures when preparing food with care. 

With Gill's cooking, you can bank on big flavours and aesthetically pleasing plates.

Outside of family, Gill is inspired in the kitchen by Luke Nguyen, Josh Niland, Dan Hong, Kylie Kwong, and Marco Pierre White and she prefers savoury over sweet. 

More details of this beautiful experience will be up soon 

It begins at 10am with an intimate conversation and then we will join her in cooking around the bench with lunch at 1pm. 

Gill and the team at Moonacres look forward to seeing you soon.