My First Competition
My name is William Christian. I am a Business Hotel Management student at BINUS Bekasi. I’m from the BINUSIAN 2022 and this is my first time participating in a cooking competition. I competed at the “La Cuisine 2019” at the 3rd SIAL Interfood Expo at JIEXPO, Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, Indonesia.
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La Cuisine is a cooking competition supported by the Association of Culinary Professionals and World Chefs. The class that I attended was Class 18 which is Sate Nusantara. Where I was challenged to make sate, that made one of the meat/seafood/chicken/tofu/tempeh. I am required to cook Indonesian food using sponsors, such as sweet soy sauce from AKUFOOD or soy sauce from KIKKOMAN in making satay. The duration for the competition is 60 minutes.
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This is the first competition I took part in while I was studying at BINUS Bekasi and I was very excited in the competition to make the best results for me. Before I started the competition I was always guided by my lecturer is Nurul Sukma Lestari. I practiced making sate for 6 times to try out my ability to use traditional grill and charcoal to ignite, but this exercise was successful until the competition. I keep practicing once a week so that I am able to make Sate Tuna with Sambal dabu-dabu and Sambal kecap for me to show at La Cuisine 2019.
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With the support of Chef Nurul, Chef Mey, my parents and everyone who helped me during trial. I won a bronze medal. For me this was a memorable experience even though I was tired but it produced a good results for me.
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What I got from participating was a lesson that “with hard work will definitely get the best results”. This is the beginning I will continue to be enthusiastic in following the next competition to become the best in the culinary world.
Thank you
-William Christian-