‘6-pack chef' Wallace Wong on breaking records, fitness and stepping away from restaurants
He set the Guinness World Record in 2023 while filming for the Italian reality show Lo Show Dei Record, or The Records Show, in which participants attempt to break records. He has since set or broken 10 others, all for chopping vegetables or fruit at breakneck speed.
He is also a season-two winner of the cooking competition Chopped Canada, has taken part in shows like Top Chef Canada, Fridge Wars and Canada's Got Talent, and is a
bodybuilder who has competed in the Arnold Amateur Bodybuilding Championships and the IFBB North American Championships.
Known as the 'six-pack chef', Wong's dedication to food and fitness stems from when he was growing up in Ontario, Canada, with his parents, who are from Hong Kong.
'My love for food came from being Chinese, being Cantonese,' he says.
In 2023, Wong set his first Guinness World Record on Lo Show Dei Record by chopping 166 slices of cucumber within 30 seconds while blindfolded. Photo: courtesy of Wallace Wong
As a child, he and his family would often go for dim sum and hotpot – cherished memories that sparked his love for food.
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