Nandu News Raw coconut latte mooncakes, fresh abalone matsutake pomegranate fruit, floating lobster balls with truffle avocados... On August 28-29, the Second Vocational Skills Competition of Guangdong Province was held in Hongbo City, Dachong, Zhongshan, and 150 Cantonese chefs from all over the province gathered to "discuss the sword".
Watch "Fairy Fight"
"Zhongshan Shiqi Milk Pigeon" is a compulsory test that focuses on innovation
According to reports, this competition is one of the series of activities of Zhongshan's "China Cantonese Cuisine Famous City", and it is also one of the competitions of the Provincial Skills Competition, with the theme of "New Era, New Skills, New Dreams", a total of 150 Cantonese chefs from all over the province gathered to participate.
Among them, there are not only celebrity chefs from well-known catering enterprises, but also new kitchen stars emerging from new catering, as well as private dishes and farmhouse dishes that are popular with the public. Whether it is seniority or cooking skills, it represents the highest level of the Cantonese cooking industry at present, which can be described as a high-level duel of "fairy fight".
Judging from the content of the competition, there are two competition items of Chinese cooking division (cum staff professional competition) and Chinese pastry division, which are divided into three modules: practical skills, theoretical knowledge and comprehensive evaluation for competition assessment.
The scene of the competition of Chinese cooks.
Li Xiaorong, head of the competition and secretary general of the Zhongshan Culinary Association, told Nandu reporters that the setting of the competition topics also deliberately integrated regionality, such as the assessment of Chinese cooks to set the Zhongshan Shiqi pigeon as a mandatory question.
Nandu reporters also noticed at the scene that the chefs also handed over the pattern answer sheets for this question, including lemongrass pigeon, honey juice ginger pigeon, lychee crisp pigeon, as well as soup pigeon hundred flower balls, casserole pigeon, flavored ginger sugar pigeon, lemongrass pigeon and so on.
Under the competition of "masters gathering", how to evaluate a dish, and what requirements are emphasized? "To be delicious, to be bright, to have a nutritional concept, the most important thing is whether there is innovation." Li Xiaorong said. Participating in many culinary competitions, he found that the works of this competition as a whole are more practical, for example, the Chinese cooking team has incorporated the practical plating elements of Western food into the plating, and there are fewer carved plating.
The scene of the competition of Chinese pastry chefs.
Live dish presentation.
First Prize "Floating Lobster Ball with Truffle Avocado"
On the same day, the final winners of the competition were determined. Ou Jianxin from Zhongshan Harbour City Seafood Restaurant won the first prize of Chinese chef. "My choice of dishes is a floating lobster ball with truffle avocado, and the creation of the dish was inspired by the chef." Ou Jianxin told Nandu reporter that he improved the materials, using Australian lobster and left-mouth fish brisket, which realized the practicality of lobster eating twice.
According to Ou Jianxin, he benefited a lot from participating in the competition, and after completing his own works, he also deliberately visited the dish display area to learn the works of his peers. "Although I have been doing this business for more than 30 years, I still need to have a lot of exchanges."
According to reports, the top 5 players of Chinese cooks and Chinese pastry chefs can be awarded the title of "Guangdong Provincial Technical Experts", and the top 15 players in the Chinese cook competition and the top 5 players in the Chinese pastry chef competition can be recommended by the organizing committee of the competition to participate in the "2021 National Catering Industry Vocational Skills Competition" held in Tianjin in late September.
On-site release of Zhongshan
"Cantonese Cuisine Rural Tourism Boutique Route"
On the afternoon of the 29th, another series of activities to polish Zhongshan's "China Cantonese Cuisine Famous City" - the "Cantonese Cuisine Master" Project High-quality Development Forum was also held at the same time in Zhongshan Dachong Hongbo City.
The forum invited Feng Yurong, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Zhongshan Municipal People's Congress, Huang Ping, vice president of the China Cuisine Association and executive chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Catering and Food Industry Alliance, as the keynote speakers of the forum, and many big names in the catering industry came to help and jointly make suggestions for the inheritance and development of Cantonese cuisine. At the forum, the guests analyzed and dialogued on topics such as promoting the Cantonese cuisine master project, promoting the Cantonese cuisine culture, and promoting the development direction of the Cantonese cuisine industry, and conducted analysis and dialogue on the future development space of Cantonese cuisine, the cultivation and reserve of Cantonese cuisine talents and how to accelerate the in-depth integration and development of the industry driven by the "Cantonese cuisine master" project.
The "Cantonese Cuisine Master" project has gradually become a strategic brand in Guangdong with strong vitality and extensive influence, showing a solid mass foundation, market foundation, cultural foundation and strong social demand. Whether Zhongshan can take this opportunity to upgrade and create the international cultural business card of "Cantonese Cuisine Master", lead the cultural trend of "Cantonese Cuisine Master", and create a more high-end "Cantonese Cuisine Master" cultural brand has also become a hot topic of discussion in the forum on the same day.
In addition, for the first time, the scene also released two Zhongshan "Cantonese Cuisine Food Rural Tourism Boutique Routes" on the Longdu Line and the Nanlang Line, combining the "Cantonese Cuisine Master" with the excellent traditional culture and agricultural resources of the local countryside, further expanding the brand awareness and influence of the "Cantonese Cuisine Master" and improving the Cantonese cuisine industry chain.
According to reports, zhongshan will continue to carry out 12 series of activities such as the "Zhongshan Cantonese Cuisine Imprint" tracing interview, the "Shuttle Zhongshan Cantonese Cuisine Time Tunnel" display, the Zhongshan special ingredient "Cantonese Cuisine Master • Happiness Recipe" project, the release of Zhongshan "China Cantonese Cuisine Famous City" 10th Anniversary Commemorative Stamp, and "Building Zhongshan Cantonese Cuisine Internet Red IP" and other 12 series of activities to further polish the "Chinese Cantonese Cuisine Famous City" signboard.
Written by: Nandu reporter Cheng Xiaomei Intern Jing Xianhao
Photo: Nandu reporter Cheng Xiaomei intern Jing Xianhao