Domestic Pork Creative Cuisine Competition: Culinary Talents Gather to Showcase Their Skills

The Council of Agriculture's "Domestic Pork Creative Cuisine Competition" held its finals and award ceremony yesterday (the 20th). A total of 22 teams of culinary talents from across the country came together to demonstrate their professional cooking skills and creativity, presenting domestic pork in healthy, delicious and distinctive dishes. In the future, the recipes of these award-winning works will also be promoted and publicized, so that consumers can buy domestic pork with confidence and make their own creative dishes at home.

Fierce Competition in the Group Preliminaries, Culinary Talents Gather Together

The Council of Agriculture explained that registration for the "Domestic Pork Creative Cuisine Competition" opened on October 27, 109 (2020), and a total of 79 teams signed up from all over Taiwan, including national senior high and vocational school students, food and beverage industry workers, Tian Mama participants and farmers' association homemaking class members, and other culinary talents. Through the cooking competition, they presented their most unique professional skills and creativity. Well-known chefs and cooking teachers were invited to serve as judges for the preliminaries, including Master Chen You-sheng, Teacher Cai Ji-fang, Master Chen Kun-huang, Master Zhang Qiu-yong and Master Qiu Bao-lang. Participants used a diverse range of pork cuts, including common pork belly, loin, shoulder and neck meat, leg meat, neck meat and cheek meat, as well as ribs, pork skin and pork intestine, and paired them with local seasonal fruits and vegetables and specialty agricultural and fishery products to create domestic pork dishes that are both delicious and nutritious.

Blending Local Specialty Ingredients to Create Distinctive Dishes

The Council of Agriculture stated that after regional review and preliminaries across the four regions of north, central, south and east Taiwan, 22 teams with distinctive, creative and promotable dishes were selected to enter the national finals, gathering at Yu Da High School of Commerce and Home Economics in Taipei City to showcase their culinary skills. After fierce competition and evaluation, the professional group "Playing Pig to Eat the Tiger" (Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health), the school group "Cross-border Diagonal Unlimited" (Private Shang Teng Industrial and Commercial Vocational High School, Department of Food and Beverage Management) and the amateur group "Waipu Farmers' Association Homemaking Mom Team" (Taichung City Waipu District Farmers' Association Homemaking Class) stood out and won first place in this competition. In addition, "Flying Pig Restaurant" (Taichung City Da'an District Farmers' Association) received the Special Jury Grand Award.