Adam Liaw is a former MasterChef contestant who has written several cookbooks and is known for his tasty Asian cuisine.

Series two MasterChef winner and popular chef Adam Liaw took to Twitter today to poke fun at our pretentious food culture and obsession with celebrity chefs.

His series of tweets, which he hashtagged #2016FoodTrends, was a satirical prediction of how far we’ll go in 2016.

Liaw also parodied some of the biggest food events of 2015. Here’s a little wrap-up to remind us of all of the outrageous meals we couldn’t afford and the boring paleo meals we (thankfully) didn’t miss out on.

HESTON BLUMENTHAL BRINGS THE FAT DUCK TO MELBOURNE

Heston Blumenthal brought his three Michelin star restaurant The Fat Duck to Melbourne this year for a short six-month stint.

Aussie fans couldn’t wait to taste his famous “meat fruit” and “Sound of the Sea” dishes, which have helped Heston’s London restaurant enjoy nine years on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.

But Heston’s move Down Under wasn’t without controversy.

Demand for a table at the restaurant was so high that potential diners were asked to enter an online ballot system. Successful applicants were then “indiscriminately selected” by an independent third party.

Thousands of Heston fans were left up in arms after missing out on a table; from 89,179 ballot entries, only 14,000 diners were chosen.

And their meal wasn’t cheap. The 15-course meal cost $525 (excluding drinks) and featured Blumenthal’s iconic dishes such as the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and Snail Porridge. Cue outrage.

RENE REDZEPI’S NOMA COMES TO SYDNEY

Noma is the mecca of fine dining. Since opening in 2003, it has topped Restaurant magazine’s prestigious World’s Best Restaurant list in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014.

Noma’s head chef and co-owner, Rene Redzepi, is often hailed as the most influential chef in the world.

He was listed in Time magazine’s 2012 list of the 100 most influential people on the planet and was named International Chef of the Year at the Lo Mejor de la Gastronomia conference in 2008.

So when news arrived that Redzepi would be opening a Noma pop-up restaurant in Sydney, people went nuts.

Bookings for a table sold out in under four minutes. The Noma Australia booking website went live at 10am on October 30 and by 10.04 all tables had sold out.

What’s even more outrageous is that diners didn’t even know what they’d be eating. The $485 degustation menu (excluding wine) has yet to be finalised and released to the public.

Noma’s 10-week residency at Barangaroo runs from January 26 until April 2. Missed out on a table? You can join the very long waiting list online.

OUR OBSESSION WITH PALEO REACHED FEVER PITCH

Depending on which side of the paleo fence you sit on, the diet’s golden boy Pete Evans either had a spectacular or disastrous year.

On the one hand, he skyrocketed words “paleo diet” into the everyday lexicon and made everyone feel guilty about eating bread, pasta and cheese. (The paleo diet eschews grains, legumes, dairy, sugar and processed foods.)

Loads of people signed up to his program The Paleo Way and bought his many cookbooks.

But he also told people who sufferer from conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, and other chronic illnesses that going paleo would help relieve some of their pain, and even reverse some symptoms.

He wrote a children’s paleo cookbook, which advised mothers to feed their babies bone broth, advice that was quickly slammed by doctors as being deadly.

The book was later dropped by his publisher, but Pete went along and published it anyway by himself. It contains loads of ridiculous recipes, including one for a boiled egg.

He’s got 1.3 million Facebook fans though, so that must help him sleep at night.

THE CRAZY MILKSHAKE TREND GOT OUT OF HAND

While half the country were busy depriving themselves of basic nutrients, the other half were consuming ridiculous milkshakes so unhealthy their arteries are now also begging for a break over Christmas.

Foodcraft Espresso in Sydney is one of the most popular leaders in the trend. Their doughnut Nutella balls are piled on top of chocolate milkshakes and then Instagrammed a million times over.

Our national Nutella obsession got so bad that there was soon a nationwide shortage, felt most deeply in Melbourne and Sydney.

Now, you can’t scroll through Instagram on a Saturday morning without seeing half of Sydney’s brunch crowd posing alongside a million giant milkshakes. It’s absurd.

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