A cooking demonstration to show the participants how the dishes should be done.
One of the team’s creations.
showed them how to get the dishes done step by step. Then, it was time to cook! Each group worked together on each of their stations, everything was perfectly prepared from the equipment to ingredients – even if we missed some ingredients when shopping, we didn’t need to worry as the hotel had everything we needed at our station. We immediately divided our responsibilities – one of another had to cut the spices while
we were joining the Masterchef
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the other one had to blend the spices
competition! This is also an amazing
Sayswang, Chef Made Putra and
using pestle and mortal.
way for team building as each group
Chef Aris. We frantically placed
worked together to wrap the fish
each plate on the judging table,
how the professional chefs did it,
meat in banana leaves for the first
and voila! Time was up and all the
and once in a while we checked out
dish and make satay for the second
contestants were satisfied enough
the recipes that were displayed at
dish, and grilled them all.
to see their creations on the table.
We tried our best to remember
our station. Chef Aris, Chef Made
Time went so fast, suddenly we
The juries judged each dish based
Tarma and Chef Made Putra also
heard that we only had a couple
on cleanliness, teamwork, cooking
checked on us and gave some
of minutes left. It was time to start
technique, taste and presentation.
suggestions. Honestly, joining a
plating. We needed to make
cooking program at a hotel has
each plate beautiful to present
deliberate, the participants waited
never been this fun. It felt as if
them to the judges – Director of
in the living room accompanied
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While waiting for the judges to
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us was in charge of the fish meat,