About Event
ASPIRE Lunar New Year: Cocktails & Conversation with Melissa Leong – Thursday 5 March 2026 at 6pm, Melbourne CBD.
Gold Logie-nominated TV personality and food icon, Melissa Leong has become a household name through MasterChef Australia. Melissa
details the people, events and meals that have shaped her life – from her struggles with racism and identity as a first-generation
Singaporean Chinese woman, to confronting the realities of a flawed hospitality industry, to finding her voice and doing things her own way.
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Panel Members

Melissa Leong
TV Personality, Food Critic and Author
Melissa Leong is an Australian freelance food writer, food critic, television host, radio broadcaster, cookbook editor and marketer.

March 5, 2026
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Juliet Melbourne - 41 Little Bourke St. Melbourne VIC 3000


