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Chef Nic

Chinese food travelogue TV series

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ17426143 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chef Nic (Chinese: 十二道鋒味) is a Chinese food travelogue show starring Nicholas Tse and featuring different celebrity guests per episode. It was aired from 12 July 2014 to 28 January 2022.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2 added regular cast members including William Chan, Yu Quan, and Ma Su. Wang Taili joined from episode 8, while Xiao Wang and Yi Yi joined in the last episode. Mani Fok, CEO of EEG, replaced Chan in the second episode due to his acting schedule.

All 12 episodes are available for streaming on the main website.

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“Chef Nic” enters the record as chinese food travelogue TV series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chef, Chinese and food can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chef, Chinese and food.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17426143. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chef Nic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.