It’s been a while since I covered time sensitive events. Hong Kong’s chef Ardy Ferguson won the regional finals of San Pellegrino Young Chefs Academy Awards to represent the region in Milano next year.
Chef contestants
Chef mentors to the 10 contestants.
I covered the San Pellegrino Young Chefs Academy Award for CNA. This year’s finalist is Hong Kong based chef Ardy Ferguson who beat nine other young chefs, and will be representing the region at the finals in Milan next year.
The Singapore contingent was represented by young chefs Law Jiajun of Province restaurant and William Yee of Labyrinth along with their respective chef mentors Kirk Westaway of Jaan and LG Han respectively.
Young Chef William Yee, from Labyrinth in Singapore, whose dish ‘Dai Pai Dong’ (Malaysian food street), was inspired by his family trips to his local Dai Pai Dong in Kuala Lumpur
Cooking for 5 hours to present in 15 minutes is no mean feat.
Young Chef Simone Scarparo, from Luna By Clara in Bangkok, Thailand, whose dish ‘Hidden in the Beeswax’, was inspired by a bee from in Koh Samui and utilises discarded beeswax as a cooking method for locally sourced fish.
