Lifestyle Video YT - Culinary Class Wars judge Anh Sung-jae shares he had to lose weight for the show
In an interview with South Korean news outlet JTBC on Sunday (Oct 20), Anh revealed how he was invited to judge the hit Netflix cooking competition.
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The global success of Netflix's cooking competition Culinary Class Wars has turned its contestants and judges into household names all over the world. Anh Sung-jae, one of the two judges on the show – alongside Paik Jong-won – has received attention (and a new legion of fans) following his stint on the show.
According to Anh, the show's production team told him to lose weight before filming started.
"I liked eating so much that I had gained some weight and was in the process of losing weight. (The production team's words) motivated me to work a little harder to lose weight."
One of the highlights of Culinary Class Wars was the dynamic between Anh and Paik Jong-won. Both judges frequently disagreed on the contestants' dishes due to their different judging styles – with Anh employing a stricter methodology.
During the interview, Anh admitted that working with Paik "wasn't good" at first.
"I had different standards from Paik but I felt like this meant we could judge the food from various angles so that our viewpoints weren't one-sided," he said.
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