Exploring Lam's use of Language

P: Lam has a lively and enthusiastic style of presenting. In contrast to the other chefs she is the most animated in her tone. This really engages us as an audience and keeps our attention. Q: You can see it’s not rahahahahaa like firecrackers its cook a gentle cook a bing a bing a bing very very busy. E: In this quote Lam uses onomatopoeic-sounding phrases to describe the oil cooking the food. Her simile helps us picture what she is seeing in the pan, which is useful as the camera doesn’t pick this up. She also uses a lot of repetition to reinforce her point, the pan is ’very very’ busy. Her pace is quite rapid and so the repetition also helps the audience to keep up with the key points.