Picture: The best chefs of the Golden Spoon Contest 2015
After 6 months of
competition stretching back to early June 2015, “Hometown taste – Vietnam spices
journey” was completed after an extensive search of rustic and traditional
spices, which delivered flavorsome, nutritional, unique dishes, and discovered
excellent chefs.
Attending the Award Gala were leaders of
the General Department of Tourism; Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vietnam;
representatives of departments; leaders of Minh Long I Co. Ltd; media and
representatives sponsors, New Viet Dairy company.
In 2015, the Golden Spoon Contest was held in many
localities across the country. This contest has attracted, and witnessed the
performances, of 357 chefs belonging to 119 organizations such as restaurants,
hotels and other businesses within the tourism sector. 42 of the teams came
from 4 or 5 star hotels and restaurants. More than 1,400 delicious dishes
highlighting typical cultural characteristics of their regions were introduced
and promoted, using spices such as “Mắc
khén””, pepper, “hạt dỗi”, “thảo quả tươi”, fameflower, shiny leaf
prickly-ash, lemongrass, spicy Sacho, “củ
xá kiến”, and “cây thắng cố”.
Also represented were dishes such as deep fried Centella salad served with
prawn; centella salad served with jelly fish; sweet soup with tofu and green
tea; Annona reticulate tea and bitter tomato soup cooked with pig blood. These came from the Mekong Delta, Southeast,
South Central, Central Highlands, North Central, Northern Highlands, Red river
Delta and HCMC regions of the country. In addition, local dishes, long thought
lost, were presented by the talented chefs to once again become part of the
Vietnamese culinary experience.
Earlier, in the final round on February 12th
2015 at the Minh Sang Trade Centre (Binh Duong Province), "Vietnam spice
trees" was an exhibition and demonstration by the Organizing Committee of
the Golden Spoon which, already in its third season.
Thoa Le