
Nora Lum is a hapless, clueless kitchen klutz who cannot tell one end of a wok from the other.
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Nora Lum is a hapless, clueless kitchen klutz who cannot tell one end of a wok from the other.
And with that as her default position as she embarks on an Asian, primarily Chinese, culinary exploration of the United States, with the aim of mastering stove, saucepan and skillet, her prospects look decidedly dim.
At the outset of Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook on Apple TV, Lum confesses that she cannot even “steam an egg”; yet she is an expert at incinerating trays of spare ribs; at turning any sort of cooking into a “nightmarish hell”; at fumbling and clattering utensils at a prestigious culinary institute; and at smoking out a teacher-chef with smouldering vegetable oil.
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