Sixteen years after she set foot in Hong Kong as a contestant on the first season of MasterChef Australia in 2009, Justine Schofield has returned to the busy harbour city. But where she was once a TV novice, now she is a master, filming her foodie travelogue series Hong Kong Gourmet with Justine Schofield in just 12 days while enduring early mornings, late nights, oppressive humidity and constant interruption from the roar of aeroplanes.

“Thank god we have an amazing team, and we all know when to just stop for a second,” says Schofield, who was talking from her parents’ property on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, where she is celebrating her 40th birthday. “It takes hours of preparation. And we push out as many recipes as we can.

“But we do eat so well. You can spend 10 days just ea

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