Regional Finalists 2022-23

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Africa, Middle East & South Asia
Zanté Neethling
South Africa
The Strandveld ecosystem dish is a representation of the coastline along Southern Africa. The plate is designed by me and handmade...
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Aengus Moloney
South Africa
Bobotie is a traditional dish that most South Africans know, especially the Afrikaaners. As with anything, everyone has their own ...
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Bianca Strydom
South Africa
I wanted to create a dish that can live on a high class fine dining menu, made with “cheap”, attainable, everyday ingredients that...
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Asia
Hyojeong Kim
Korea
Through the San Pelegrino competition, I would like to make new Korean dish that is interesting and delicious to people in a fun w...
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William Yee
Singapore
Malaysia, Taiwan, and Singapore are the places influenced me the most. Through this dish, starting from the broth, it's like start...
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Yi Chung Chiu
Taiwan (China)
I consider that the food with genuine sentiments is the most delicious, but at the same time, the most challenging to make— the cu...
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Canada
Samy Benabed
Canada
This dish is an ode to a traditional Québécois meal: the rotisserie chicken. Traditionally, the chicken is served with gravy, a si...
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Timothy James Bleau
Canada
I want to show that fine dining food can have zero waste when done correctly, getting creative on how to utilize trim in order to ...
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Dahyun Choi
Canada
The message I am trying to deliver with my signature dish is the harmony. The orchestra that makes great music consists of many di...
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Central Europe
Stefan Barca
Germany
This dish is entirely inspired by general and global necessity for #change. Where everyone has to give at least a minimum effort t...
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Fabian Schröter
Germany
My dish means tolerance and integration. In every kitchen I've worked in, there were chefs from all over the world. I have put man...
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Marcel Förster
Germany
With this dish I would like to express that we all have to look back sometimes when we were young and our families were cooking fo...
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France
Camille Saint-M'Leux
France
My dish associates two opposed universe: the "meaty" one from the Chateauneuf farm beef and the iodized one from the cuttlefish an...
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Mohammad Ramputh
France
As am from a small island called Mauritius surrounded by the Indian ocean, known for its beaches, lagoons and reefs so we consumed...
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Yunkyung CHO
France
France and my hometown, South Korea are both surrounded by the sea and is a temperate climate where produce, livestock, and seafoo...
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Iberian Countries
David Padilla Ferrer
Spain
My dream as a chef is nothing more than to be able to take my island to the highest level of gastronomy, being happy along the way...
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Adriana Coromoto Allepuz Pelegrina
Spain
The dish is a representation of my origins, I don't have a Spanish culinary tradition because my mother was born in Venezuela, and...
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Francesco Sansalone
Spain
500 characters are less than I imagined so I'm retyping everything and trying to be shorter I want to say with this dish that "tut...
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Italy
Maria Chiara Brannetti
Italy
I rapresented violence against woman. Living or cohabiting with someone who exhibits aggressive attitudes and feeling without a wa...
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Andrea Borroni
Italy
This dish represents me and everything I wanted to believe in. I was born in Milan, moved to Ancona, mother Bolognese, father Mila...
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Paolo Anzil
Italy
I really like being able to eat soup, in a cold version, even in summer or hot days. The earthy elements are balanced by the diff...
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Latin America & Caribbean
Moris Moreno
Colombia
All the ingridients in my dish come from the farm I grew up, I sowed them myself, and I prepared them using traditional and contem...
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Xorge Esteban Sanchez
Mexico
I’m very passionate about gastronomy; my country, its people, and its ingredients bring out the flavors, in each one, of my dishes...
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Mateo Portilla
Colombia
For this contest I wanted to create a dish that had the essence of my country. For this, use several products that are not commonl...
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Mainland China
Jin Wang
China
Nature selflessly sustains all things. Cuisine should also be all encompassing – discover China’s local sea habitat and combine di...
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Di Cui
China
The idea of the dish is from my hometown, Xinjiang, which is famous for its tasty lamb. The sheep live in the mountains where the ...
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Shixin Luo
China
China is a country with vast territory and abundant resources, and each region has its own special ingredients. This dish uses the...
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North Europe
Lauma Jurkjane
Ireland
This dish is inspired by our workplaces garden. Our own grown vegetables and salads combined with chefs knowledge creates Synergy....
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Juan Ruiz
Sweden
With more than 10 years experience in different countries it took me a second to realize and change mi mindset when it comes to co...
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Magnus Brandenburg Carlsen
Denmark
Over 800 million people around the world go to bed hungry each night. At the same time, one third of all the food that is produced...
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Pacific
Srishti Godbole
Australia
It’s been three years, that I have seen my family due to the pandemic, three years since I've been to my ancestral home in ‘Aurang...
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Robin Wagner
Australia
My passion and mindset when creating new dishes is to create something remarkable, to accept the challenge and always being out of...
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Alexis Belmas
Australia
Through this dish, I wanted to link my 2 countries of affection which are France, my country of origin, and Australia, the country...
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South-East Europe & Mediterranean
Dominik Kovács
Hungary
My dish is called Friend's Ear. This is a traditional Hungarian dish. The reason, why this dish is close to my heart is because my...
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Ivan Tartaro
Croatia
Working in Mano2, the initiative behind micro seasonality, zero waste and preserving food and flavor through various fermentation ...
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Gregory Kikis
Greece
Through “The story of Cod” I wanted to give a modern twist to a traditional Greek recipe and products that are a part of every tab...
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Uk
Chris Wang
United Kingdom
The inspiration comes from my experience in Tokyo and the memory of my childhood. I’d like to present a wonderful marriage between...
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Aaron Blais
United Kingdom
This dish is all about a recreation of a happy memory growing up and getting a nostalgic feeling. Cooking and food to me is all ab...
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Swann Auffray
United Kingdom
With this dish, I would like to invite customers to travel into the summer season and beautiful products we can find in Suffolk, t...
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USA
Huy Hoang
United States - Florida
The Vietnam Cookery Culture is not simply the France and China Cuisine, but it is the fusion between those Big Two Cordon Bleu tha...
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Dimosthenis Efthymiou
United States - New York
Food conscience and sustainability are more prevalent in our lives than ever before. It is time to take action and look for more ...
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Prosenjit Biswas
United States - Colorado
I believe in Cuisine du terroir, sustainability and respect of the product. As a young chef I consider myself responsible for pre...
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West Europe
Gianmarco Pallotta
Switzerland
With this first course I wanted to create a link between land and sea, revisiting a typical preparation of my country, the porchet...
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Michael Angelo Van Liere
Belgium
I want to illustrate with my dish that we can present a beautiful and flavorful plate with just a few main ingredients. With those...
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Damien Delacoste
Switzerland
My dish is an initiation, a journey through a memory, a reminiscence. One day I went with my grandfather into the forest, I was yo...
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