Looking back at the performance of the Top Chef Vietnam 2023 Champion

Top 3 with elite chefs, with unique culinary personalities. Chef Dinh Son Truc possesses very sharp cooking techniques, rich experience, inheriting the reception of decoration and processing techniques from abroad.

Chef Truc brings a menu full of Tet flavor. Continuing to honor Ha Long squid rolls and Bach Long Vi abalone, the male chef skillfully marinates Hanoi green rice with squid rolls, inside is rolled with a little fish sauce. The sauce is prepared by Chef Truc from shrimp heads, squid, coconut water, truffle mushrooms and the rice roll shell is made from fresh rice flour and Ha Long squid rolls.

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For the main dish, Chef Truc innovated the traditional Vietnamese banh tet with Wagyu beef. The male chef used pandan leaves, yellow sticky rice, and finely ground mung beans combined with Wagyu beef, marinated in fish sauce and rolled up. This dish is combined with bitter melon soup - an indispensable soup during Vietnamese Tet.

Chef Truc skillfully handled the bitterness of the bitter melon with stevia. The side dish served was Tay Ninh beef jerky with pickled shallot sauce. To more authentically recreate the Vietnamese Tet scene, the male chef also thoughtfully prepared red envelopes to give to the judges and guests, making everyone happy and moved as if they were in a real Tet.

Special dishes of Top Chef Vietnam 2023 Champion Dinh Son Truc.

Meanwhile, Tuong Vi offers a multi-element appetizer set with full sound - color - taste - aroma through dishes: Da Lat figs with tamarind sauce, cu ky salad tart served with salmon eggs soaked in wine and Mui Dien tuna.

For the main course, Tuong Vi used her expertise in making broth to make Phan Thiet-style Quang noodles. For the final dish, the female chef made a comeback by daring to make a dessert from foie gras.

The breakthrough in this dish conquered the taste of judge Valentin: "I like chef Vi's menu the most. When eating Quang noodles, I see Vi's creativity, dexterity, sophistication and modernity."

Judge Luke Nguyen shared: "If we talk about Truc's menu, you have really brought Vietnamese ingredients and agricultural products into your menu. To me, you are a good presenter, a talented storyteller.

You elevate Vietnamese cuisine in a very gentle way by using Italian truffles, by using salmon caviar in a very gentle, very harmonious way. You balance them very well."

Dinh Son Truc won convincingly in Top Chef Vietnam season 3

As the contestant who won the last ticket to the final round, Chef Tam is considered a valuable “treasure trove of culinary knowledge” of Top Chef with a deep understanding of Vietnamese culinary culture. She is also known as the “Queen of Flavor” with an extremely skillful and harmonious combination of ingredients.

Ngoc Tam brings a set of eye-catching appetizers with four dishes with impressive names: Youth, Shine, Harvest, Peace. With the same idea of ​​expressing family reunion as Dinh Son Truc, Ngoc Tam chooses banh chung as the main dish for this menu.

The female chef skillfully recreated a banh chung in the shape of the Vietnamese flag, next to a Nha Trang lobster symbolizing the abundant seafood resources with our country's long coastline. Although the presentation was pleasing to the eye and the story was meaningful, Ngoc Tam's dish failed to win over the judges' taste buds because the lobster was "quite bland".

Finally, the final result named Chef Dinh Son Truc as the champion of season 3, following Chef Vo Thanh Vuong in continuing the mission of leaving Vietnam's mark on the world culinary map. Chef Truc received a prize worth 300 million VND and a scholarship to study in France from sponsor Andros Asia.

Chef Tuong Vi became 1st runner-up with a prize of 200 million VND and Chef Ngoc Tam became 2nd runner-up with a prize of 100 million VND.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/nhin-lai-man-dau-cua-quan-quan-top-chef-viet-nam-2023-192230919230237224.htm