Regional Finalists 2022-23

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Africa, Middle East & South Asia
Luis Angel Huamani Huerta
Qatar
just to show everything that I have learned in each country that I have traveled, worked, its food, its culture, its people, so th...
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Mirsat Yilmaz
United Arab Emirates
The dish itself express completely south eastern turkish cuisine where the people eats lamb, mix spices and local carbs such as ba...
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Shehab Medhat
Egypt
Without dreams we reach nothing, Without love we feel nothing In order to reach your dream, you need determination, discipline,...
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Asia
Ai Ichinose, portrait picture
Fusion of Japanese and French cooking traditions and "Hopes For the future of food", signature dish
Ai Ichinose
Japan
"Miso-marinated" Omi beef and "heshiko," aged fish, have a history of hundreds of years in my hometown. I added the traditional Fr...
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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
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
Ben Miller
Canada
Vegan food, through methodology and expertise, belongs on the world stage. Vegetables can be a complete substitute for any animal ...
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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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Pierre Olivier Pelletier
Canada
I invent this plate in honor of the hard work of my father and my mother. My father always work in the cereal world and this is a ...
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Central Europe
Emilia Montz, portrait picture
Russian ballet, signature dish
Emilia Montz
Germany
With my dish I would like to express my passion for dance. Swan Lake is a Russian ballet set to the music of Tchaikovsky. I want t...
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Randy De jong
Germany
I would like to show that we can eat less meat and fish and eat more vegan or vegetarian. You can get so many nice flavours and c...
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Yvonne Rauscher, portrait picture
Buntes Waldviertel, signature dish
Yvonne Rauscher
Austria
My dish is intended to showcase the colourful diversity and wonderful flavours of my homeland. The idea of my dish is based on my ...
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France
William Ezzedine
France
I would like to pay tribute to all the places I have lived, thanks to my family coming from many backgrounds. I chose a fish that ...
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Joseph Doverman
Whiskey loosens the beefs tongue
Joseph Doverman
France
This dish for me represents Irish culture married with classical french techniques,as an Irish chef in France it's something that'...
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Alberto Suardi, portrait picture
Wild and roots, signature dish
Alberto Suardi
France
This dish tells my story, expressing my passion for mushrooms with a skewer of mushrooms, laced with their broth and miso. The oth...
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Iberian Countries
Nelson Freitas
Portugal
My favorite part of my childhood is the sea so that was my main inspira tion for this signature dish.I really want to transmite th...
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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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Andrè Cameirão
Portugal
Kitchen and gastronomy are my life since I was young. I move to Açores , I fell in love with the gastronomy of the region and I wa...
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Italy
Alessio Magistro, portrait picture
Ossi di seppia
Alessio Magistro
Italy
My "Ossi di seppia" draws inspiration from Montale's work, where bones, wandering among the waves and seemingly worthless, symboli...
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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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Katherine Rios
Italy
Migration and Integration Arriving in a new place is not always easy and even more so it is not easy to integrate and be accepted...
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Latin America & Caribbean
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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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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Marcella Falco Amato, portrait picture
Hot or Not?, signature dish
Marcella Falco Amato
Brazil
My dish was inspired by acarajé, a traditional street food from the Brazilian Northeast. The message I want to convey is the symbo...
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Mainland of China
Huan Qin, portrait picture
Huan Qin, signature dish
Huan Qin
China
The dish presented by Alchemist restaurant, calling for a reduction in ocean plastic, has inspired me and made me realize that oce...
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Zi Hao Lu, portrait picture
Zi Hao Lu, signature dish
Zi Hao Lu
China
In Chinese culture, there is an old saying, "Eat what is in season," which means that the right time creates flavors, and if misse...
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Jin Wang, portrait picture
Jin Wang, signature dish
Jin Wang
China
As a native of Nanjing, I have always held a belief that "no duck can leave Nanjing alive." From a young age, I may have had a cer...
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North Europe
Augustinas Bimbiris
Lithuania
Less waste – more taste. My dish is based on an idea that I want to throw away less. Everything is utilized to its’ maximum: even ...
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Blake Norgren, portrait picture
Truffled lamb saddle with yellow carrot puree, signature dish
Blake Norgren
Sweden
Through this dish, I aim to evoke a sense of culinary heritage and connection to Sweden. The lamb symbolizes tradition and sustena...
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Sebastian Garcia Jimenez
Faroe Islands
During my time spent at Faroe Islands I create this dish with one purpose, to make something Mexican inspired but allowing myself ...
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Pacific
Tatsuya Fujii
Australia
My yakitori is a unique take on the classic Japanese dish, combining traditional flavours with Italian and Australian elements and...
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Kimberly Tang, portrait picture
My mother's Tze Char, signature dish
Kimberly Tang
Australia
"My Mother's Tze Char" is a tribute to my late mother's dream of feeding the hungry. By transforming humble ingredients into a ric...
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KyongHo Choi, portrait picture
Bacon and cabbage or pork and kimchi, signature dish
KyongHo Choi
Australia
As an immigrant, moving from South Korea to growing up in Ireland, one of the challenges was the cuisine. I went from having rice ...
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South-East Europe & Mediterranean
Olga Feferkuchen
Israel
My dish is my interpretation to the classic Borscht. I took my mother’s recipe and disassembled it and combined it with the local ...
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Bogdan Panaite, portrait picture
The Pig's Alms, signature dish
Bogdan Panaite
Romania
The Pig's Alms is a sacred ritual deeply rooted in our country's folklore and tradition, people have forgotten about what it means...
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Maciej Osiński, portrait picture
The circle of life, signature dish
Maciej Osiński
Poland
I’d like to introduce my dish, to express my way of thinking about both cooking and dealing with life outside of gastronomy. the d...
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Uk
Wayne Munn, portrait picture
Bobotie, signature dish
Wayne Munn
United Kingdom
Having spent so much time designing courses through local and expensive ingredients, I decided to go back to what I grew up eating...
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Connor Anderson, portrait picture
The red deer, signature dish
Connor Anderson
United Kingdom
It is my homage to one of the most iconic animals of a place which I now call home, the Scottish Highlands. I want to express my i...
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Ediz Niyazi Engin
United Kingdom
A Chef is someone able to forge a connection between times and who can intertwine the strings of time to create something beautifu...
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USA
Nicolas Lopez, portrait picture
Pork with hints of the sea, signature dish
Nicolas Lopez
United States
This dish represent my years of experience working in this industry, from a local pub or bistro, all the way to fine dining using ...
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Huy Hoang
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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Prosenjit Biswas
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
Davide Calabrese, portrait picture
Davide Calabrese
Luxembourg
I was inspired by the future of global nutrition: I asked myself a simple question. Where is humanity going? In terms of evolution...
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Andrea Vailati
Switzerland
Sustainability and deliciousness are my beliefs, because when combined are strong enough to make a change in what today is a broke...
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Raul Garcia
Switzerland
With this dish I actually want to transfer all my passion and love to the detail. From the first step to the last arrangement of t...
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