The Australian Culinary Challenge 2015

Le Cordon Bleu Sydney competes to test culinary skills in the heat of competition!

The 2015 Australian Culinary Challenge was held at the Sydney Showground and Sydney Olympic Park as part of Fine Food and Hotel Australia from September 20th – 23rd.  Chefs, trainees and apprentices had the opportunity to compete against each other and against the clock, for a share of up to $20,000 in cash and prizes.

Chefs of the highest calibre and skill level were invited to showcase their talents live in front of the Fine Food audience and were judged by a panel of international, interstate, and local judges.

The following is a tally of all the medals and placings our students, alumni, and chefs received at the Australian Culinary Challenge:

Front of House Challenge

• Le Cordon Bleu Team 1 - Bronze Medal
• Le Cordon Bleu Team 2 - Certificate

Mastercut Best Live Challenge

• Tamar Sever - Le Cordon Bleu Alumni

Gourmand Providor Best Static Display

• Paula Soares Mears - Le Cordon Bleu student

Fonterra Food Service Battle of the Pacific

• NSW Junior Team - Bronze Medal
  • Hou Chin Tang- Le Cordon Bleu Alumni
  • Alex Kim Jiang Tan- Le Cordon Bleu Alumni
  • Armesia Erwanto- Le Cordon Bleu student

Le Cordon Bleu Best Centrepiece in Show

• Andre Sandison - Le Cordon Bleu Chef

Sweet Buffet Centrepiece

• You Ming Tseng - Le Cordon Bleu student - Silver
• Jia Haw Tan - Le Cordon Bleu student - Gold
• Andre Sandison - Le Cordon Bleu Chef - Gold

Torte or Gateaux for 8

• Paula Soares Machuca - Le Cordon Bleu student - Gold
• Steffiani Setyadji - Le Cordon Bleu student - Gold
• Ganesh Iyer - Le Cordon Bleu student - Bronze
• Andrea Wonomihardjo - Le Cordon Bleu student - Silver
• Ting Kin Ng - Le Cordon Bleu student - Silver
• Lin Chiu Chun - Le Cordon Bleu student - Silver
• Yen Ming Chang - Le Cordon Bleu student - Gold
• Hung Kiat Lam - Le Cordon Bleu student - Bronze
• Chi Ping Wang - Le Cordon Bleu student - Bronze

3 Course Modern Australian

• Tamar Sever - Le Cordon Bleu Alumni - Merit
• Sewoo Son - Le Cordon Bleu Alumni - Bronze

2 Restaurant Platters 2 x 2

• Phatthanaphong Wongwan - Le Cordon Bleu student - Merit

Petit Fours/Pralines 5 x 6

• Paula Soares Machuca - Le Cordon Bleu student - Gold
• Lin Chiu Chun - Le Cordon Bleu student - Gold

A great effort was put in overall to achieve such fantastic results! Well done!