On the afternoon of December 13, the 2023 first "'Kitchen' Excellence, Ingenuity to Build Dreams" Chef King Competition was successfully held in Hubei University of Economics.
The scene of the competition. The competition is sponsored by China Gezhouba Group Cultural Tourism Development, a subsidiary of China Energy Construction Group, and co-organized by Hubei University of Economics and Chu Cuisine Modern Industry College.
Contestants. On the same day, more than 20 chefs selected from various units of Gezhouba Cultural Tourism Company gathered in Wuhan, Jiangcheng, to demonstrate their cooking skills in the form of competitions, spread the world's cuisine, and compete for the crown of King Chef.
It is reported that the contestants can be described as a gathering of masters, many of whom are "Jingchu craftsmen", "Chu cuisine masters" and "registered Chinese cooking masters", and some of the contestants have repeatedly participated in banquets such as the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, and some contestants are "Wuhan Skill Masters" and "Wuhan Model Workers".
The competition is divided into dish display and cooking competition.
In the dish display link, the contestants competed on the same stage, and they all showed their housekeeping skills, from material selection to peeling, slicing, carving, plating...With skillful knife skills, he gives full play to his imagination and shows extremely unique creativity. Through the skillful hands of the chefs, the tofu can bloom, the fish can weave nets, and the dough can blink into a lifelike dragon and phoenix shape, so that the guests present are not only full of mouths, but also full of eyes.
The oil is hot and the smoke is rising. In the cooking competition, the contestants made their own specialty dishes, lighting the fire, pouring oil, stir-frying, thickening, and getting out of the pot.
Awards. From the two dimensions of dish production and dish explanation, the judges comprehensively scored the dishes at the booth and the dishes cooked on the spot from the aspects of taste, shape, creativity, content, and expression, and selected the champion, runner-up, and third runner-up.
In the end, Ye Chongqing of the Central China Regional Center won the title of the king chef of this competition.
This King Chef Competition is a grand event to show culinary talents and inherit food culture. The person in charge of Gezhouba Cultural Tourism Company introduced and said that he would take this event as an opportunity to accelerate the shaping of high-quality IP such as cultural tourism and health care, commercial properties, hotels, and national catering, and accelerate the creation of an integrated platform for investment, construction and operation in rural revitalization, urban renewal, cultural tourism and health care and other business areas and a stock asset management platform, and move firmly towards the strategic goal of "first-class investment and operator in the cultural tourism and health care industry". (*Qiu Quan, correspondent of China Gezhouba Group's cultural tourism development).