On Friday night the Masterchef finals took place at the Spring Cultural fare, with the 4 senior competitors reaching the final and 4 pairs in the Junior section.

The Seniors had an hour and a half to put their “Taste of Asia” on plate and the Juniors had one hour 12 mins to produce their “Taste of Italy”.

The standard of food produced very high and most competitors were extremely well organised, which gave the judges a really hard job. The judges were Simon Hill the manager from HK Culinary Academy and last years star graduate Geraldine and Mr Binge (headteacher) and his wife and they were not only looking at the finished dishes, but also the creativity and working practices.

After much deliberation the results were announced and it was very close between thetop two in both categories, but there can only be one winner .

In the Junior section this was Avantika Malhotra and Chiara Dadamo from 9W, for their Italian Flag  on a plate, made up of Two types of homemade pasta, with pesto and ragu, risotto ball, bruchetta and ricotta and coconut dessert.

Really well done also to Ottavia De Rosa and Lucy Acheson, who came clse in 2nd place

Winning the senior was Kaela- Mei Townson (10W), who made an appetiser of Asain Seafood, which stunned teh judges in terms of presentation and flavour.

Specail mention to Katherine Nye who came close in 2nd place with her classic Thai dishes

Well done to all the other competitors, you food was very good though and i hope you enter next year.

Well done to all the competitors who enter the Masterchef competition and represented their house. Each house could enter 2 pairs in the competition and the competitors were given the simple brief of creative with Rice  This gave us a real range of dishes from Mango Sticky Rice with chocolate sauce to Risotto balls., and butter chicken to chocolate rice pudding. As You can see the food looked amazing!

AWell done to the following students who got through to the next round.

In Joint 1st Place Ottavia De Roas and Lucy Acheson form Rutherford and Chiara Dadamo and Avantika Malhotra from WQilberforce, they are this weeks Chef’s of the Week

In Third  Place also from Wilberforce was Jorja Townsono and Charlotte Wong

Making up the last 3 places is school sheats was Megan Lam & Chiara Postacchini from Einstein,    Koki Takamatsu and Riya Zaveri  from Nansen and finally Libby Moser and Nicole So from Rutherford. Well done to all the competitors though . It was very close

Today Island school held the first of three school rounds to determine the who will eventually represent the school in the ESF Final in June. Each house could enter 2 competitors from either Y10 or Y12 and the pupils were give the brief “Creative with Pasta” and had 45 mins to prepare and cook their dish.

There was a total of 10 competitors and the standard of food produced and served to the 4 judges was exceptional and the judges could each award of total of 15 marks for the creativity and sensory qualities of each dish. ten additional points could then be added to this score for the organisation, skills and working practices, decided upon by Mr Lord.

Well done to the following students who made it through to the next round, where the brief is a chilled dessert in 45mins

1st place Ravin Schmidl 12E (60/70 points) Who is now Chef of the week!

2nd Adrian Li  12D (59)

3rd Kaela-Mei Townson 10W (54)

Joint 4th – Linda Zhu 12W, Daniel Meerovitsch 10F, Katherine Nye 12R (52)

Commiserations to Ethan Li, Lindie, Gaultney, Perry Chan and Ttaka Hoshiyama, who just missed out on making the next stage of thge competition.

Also a big thank you to the judges (Ms Astridge, Nitin, Alvin and Claudia), Ms Reid and her camera crew and Mr Chan and Jason Lin who kept a watchful eye on the judging process