Supposed to blog yesterday but was toooooo tired after the contest .... slept for about 12 hrs str8 !!! .. CONTEST ? Oh ... for those dunno ,,,, I took part in my first Pastry - related contest !!!! neber thot i had the chance , but YES i took part and .... and ... I LOST !!! ( this is for the Lost some part of the title )
27 June 2008 - I went to BITC with my classmate , Yj n Karen to take part in California Raisins Contest , Me n Yj took part in Plated Dessert and Karen took part in Bread. I was still having cold feet in the morning and kinda of regret i took part ... wanted so much to give up cos .... SCARED !!!! but told myself ... 1) Yj is going to be more freak out then me ,,,, so i must be strong .... 2) Alot of ppl know I m taking part in this ... so abit loser if quit 3) dun wan to disappointed my chefs in skool , cos they really help alot. Anyway back to the contest ... Well there was all 18 ppl in the Plated Dessert ... me n Yj is in the first group .... after we all finished ... i was thinking standard was OK ... the rest was not all very well done ... only a few stand out ... but when grp 2 start ... i see the diff , not only in the final end products BUt when they just started i took a peek and they all look PROs. Well b4 this , heard that F hotel is sending 2 CDP in ... me a trainee against a CDP .... kaoz .... sure die flat flat one ....
Part 1 of pissed off - Was very disappointed the way the contest runs ... cos Yj was 2nd to present ( we had 75 min to prepare and 10 mins more for plated ) but they only told her that she was to stay plateing first cos the 1st one encounted some problem !!! so she didn't even had 10 mins to plate !!! how can they like that ... also Yj wanted to put her chopsticks with the dessert but they dun allow her ... saying they judges got everything inside !
Part 2 of pissed off - I thot will be like in TVs i see , we will present our items to the judges and explained our desserts, BUT NO ... they just took and served ... we dun even had the chance to explained how our desserts should be eaten !!! I had my dessert returned with the RUM I served in my dessert !!!! it was supposed to be drank after the dessert !!! and 2 cups of sauces returned untouched ... it's supposed to be pour n eat with the pudding !!! so sad .... I think I am super sad becos , I might be a trainee ... but i came up with my own receipes ( better then those who used receipe from their chefs and come and complete) I just hope I could have a bit respect for my dessert also .. sigh ... comparing to losing ... this hurts me most !!!
Part 3 of pissed off - I seriously think Karen could have won ... should have a place in the top 3 .... but sigh ... NONe ... Winners are all from top hotels .... and was told ... Karen's marks was dedected for her display ... BUT there was this guy who brought all PRE-BAKE deco show piece ... which we was told ALL deco show pieces have to be made there !!! ( for plated side also got ppl bring in pre made sugar deco ... so not fair !!!!! just think this is kinda of unfair ... not a very pro contest in my view .... not becos I didn't win ... cos me just there for experiences ... I got nothing against any1 and some of the desserts really nice.
Part 4 of pissed off - Think we read too much into the Rules ....They wanted something simple and ingredients to be easy available .... is GOLD LEAVES easily available ? i dun think so ... and all those plated desserts that won .... none of it look simple .... it looks so nice that only served in Fine Dining restuarants ... Kena cheated was the whole feeling ... the main reasons we lost ... we toooooooooooooo 2pid .... to follow all the Rules !!! Sigh
Happy moments .... I m glad that we took part though ... so we can see the dark sides .... also to learnt from all these experience .... AND think my reward for the day was when Chef Fred told me .... though we ( me n yj ) are just trainees with less then 1 yr in this industry ... they way we plate our desserts was much fine n clean then some of the others , who might be yrs in this industry ... ( no offence here but can u imagine ,,,, a green tea color dessert with a HOT PINK deco .... super mismatch !!!! - that was 1 of those who prepared b4 hand !!! ) I think with my Chef's remarks ... it was better then wining ... cos @ least we get his reconigions , to me that is all worth-ed :)
Damm sianz ... heard will kena recall back tomorrow ..... and to Tanjong Gul Camp .... dammmmmm far in the WEST ... sianz and got FULL-PACK inspection .... had problems digging out my stuffs .... blessed me tomorrow ... i hate tomorrow !!!!
Attached is my plated dessert and the 3 of us before the contest start .... so joker rite ... still take pic
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