Vietnamese-American chef crowned at Beijing cooking contest
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Vietnamese - American Duong Huy Khai, executive chef of the Vietnamese restaurant Ana Mandara in San Francisco, has recently been crowned in the Individual category at the first annual International Beijing Culinary Competition, held from June 19 to 21.
Chef Duong Huy Khai poses with his prize Photo: Tuoi Tre
The first and second runners-up were Russia’s Igor Tumarkin and Thailand’s Thanaphat Buapijit, respectively.
At the competition, Khai beat more than 200 rivals to win the Gold Medal with a bird’s nest soup cooked with a swallow’s nest brought from his hometown in the central province of Khanh Hoa.
Held for the first time this year, the International Beijing Culinary Competition gathered chef contestants from 34 countries including Singapore, Peru, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tunisia, Chile, South Korea, Australia, the UK and France, and drew around 10,000 spectators.
In related news, earlier this month, chef Duong Huy Khai was in Ho Chi Minh City to join renowned Chinese chef Martin Yan to judge the Iron Chef competition in which the highest prize went to the Golden Palace hotel’s 51-year-old chef Nguyen Thanh Tung .