Nadia Rui-chi Lim ONZM (born 21 December 1985) is a New Zealand celebrity chef, entrepreneur, food writer and television personality.
[4] Lim graduated from the University of Otago in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in applied science in human nutrition and postgraduate diploma in dietetics.
In 2014 the Asian Food Channel commissioned an eight-part television show, New Zealand with Nadia Lim,[8] which was screened during primetime across 14 countries throughout Asia, to an audience of 130 million.
[12] Lim's first cookbook, Nadia's Kitchen, was released in 2012 by Random House and is focused on healthy original recipes.
[14] Lim is a founder of My Food Bag,[15] a New Zealand home delivery service that delivers recipes and fresh ingredients to customers' doors.
The service was launched in 2013 by Cecilia and James Robinson, together with Lim and her husband, Carlos Bagrie, and ex-Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung.
She was also a guest judge on episode 12, where the winner of her "Mystery Bag – Match made in Heaven Challenge" can have their dish featured in the company's recipe, which also served as a job trial.
Lim has worked with a number of New Zealand charities, partnering with Diabetes New Zealand, the Heart Foundation, the Blind Foundation, the Cancer Society, the Hospice, KidsCan[18] and Garden to Table to help encourage healthy eating and the Cambodia Charitable Trust to raise awareness of the poverty trap of underprivileged children in Cambodia.