House Competition 3: Cooking Competition

2016RDFIS班组竞赛之烹饪大赛

The one-day event of the Cooking Competition took place as the third House Competition of semester 2 at RDFIS. The Houses got together their top four culinary wizards in hopes that they would make two dishes each that would impress the judges.

The teams each had 50 minutes to cook their two plates, and then three judges would determine which team meals had the best taste, appearance, and creativity of ingredients. Students also received more points for shortening their time and completing before the 50 minutes were up. There was a frenzy of peeling and washing all sorts of ingredients as the time started. Each team was given an assortment of utensils and tools to use, but the rest was up to them to decide how to use and cook. Things were boiled, fried, and steamed, and there was slicing, dicing, stirring and mixing. Smells of spices, meat, sweet and sometimes burnt things filled the air as time ticked by. Plating also proved to be quite creative or rushed depending on how well prepared the teams were. Flurries of food were brought to the judging table as time ticked away, and everyone looked on in awe as the three judges ate and decided the scores to be placed on the score sheet. Some of the dishes that were presented were traditional Chinese dumpling soup, pasta primavera, stir-fried vegetables, and even parfait.

After scores were tallied, Dragon reined in the most from the judges with 179 cumulative points from the score sheet (see attached). Dragon placed first with 7 points, Phoenix placed second with 6 points, Eagle placed third with 5 points, and Phoenix placed fourth with4 points. The House scores for semester two are currently Eagle in 1st with 176 points, Dragon in 2nd with 166 points, Tiger in 3rd with 161 points, and Phoenix in 4th with 147 points. Gratitude goes out to Mr. Brian Abdallah, Ms. Olga Dumna, and Principal Joey Zheng for being the judges, and the Heads of Houses: Rain Liao, Alice Liu, Ted Huang, and Remy Lu for assisting with the game rules today.