so i am told to blog about my experience with the iron chef challenge.
but first, let me give a little background to those who are stumbling upon this page on accident and have no idea what we're all talking about. the "iron chef challenge" was essentially a project for our asian american culture class at sfsu. prior to this project the class was separated into groups and each group was supposed to create a dish that combined american food with asian food based on an assigned country. when we presented our dish, we went up against another group with a different country and were critiqued by judges. scoring was based on taste, presentation, originality, and education/entertainment.
our country was vietnam and we chose to make two dishes. the first was the traditional american cobb salad with the vietnamese lemon grass chicken. the second was the vietnamese springroll with american garlic shrimp.
i just wanna take note that in every group's dishes, i noticed that the american part of the food made it fattening. and i found that both funny and interesting. take our food for example, the garlic shrimp consisted of lots of butter and garlic. and then there was the cobb salad which has bacon on it, but we skipped that part. can you say unhealthy? lol it just goes to show how the american diet has turned out to be.
personally, i think we did really good. i'm not gonna say we were the best, but we set the bar pretty high. and although our food came off as "unoriginal" (based on the comments on our springrolls), anyone who even took the effort to look into it enough and see our effort would have seen that our food was indeed original. props to the TA judges melisa and ryan for recognizing that.
we're not sore losers. i just felt like the competition between us and 210's finest was a bit biased from the get-go. first of all, they had japanese food going up against our vietnamese food. now we all know how much more popular japanese food is than vietnamese food is. in fact when i first heard of the project i wanted japan as our country because i thought it would be easy. i'm glad we ended up with vietnam though. second of all, the minute we started plating i felt like i saw the bias. i don't want to go into specifics why, but that's just how i felt. and then the presentations went. and i admit, some of us didn't seem too prepared with the info or history and we weren't very exciting with it, but we did a really good job at explaining the american/vietnamese aspects of our dish and the history of each. and we didn't really read off of pieces of paper. well, not me anyway. but 210's finest wasn't all that wow either. we should have been tied. really.
it's whatever. it's just a school project. i think i was just upset because i got sick the day before, lost my voice, was late for class because we still had to prepare our food, and i wore shoes that hurt my feet so much that day we presented. yeah, all that in one day. AND we lost, to top it all off. yea, that was one of the worst days of my life. haha.
but all together, it still turned out to be a positive experience. and i agree with amanda, it did bring our group closer. blame it on the alcohol... hahaha jk.
-Donna
our country was vietnam and we chose to make two dishes. the first was the traditional american cobb salad with the vietnamese lemon grass chicken. the second was the vietnamese springroll with american garlic shrimp.
i just wanna take note that in every group's dishes, i noticed that the american part of the food made it fattening. and i found that both funny and interesting. take our food for example, the garlic shrimp consisted of lots of butter and garlic. and then there was the cobb salad which has bacon on it, but we skipped that part. can you say unhealthy? lol it just goes to show how the american diet has turned out to be.
personally, i think we did really good. i'm not gonna say we were the best, but we set the bar pretty high. and although our food came off as "unoriginal" (based on the comments on our springrolls), anyone who even took the effort to look into it enough and see our effort would have seen that our food was indeed original. props to the TA judges melisa and ryan for recognizing that.
we're not sore losers. i just felt like the competition between us and 210's finest was a bit biased from the get-go. first of all, they had japanese food going up against our vietnamese food. now we all know how much more popular japanese food is than vietnamese food is. in fact when i first heard of the project i wanted japan as our country because i thought it would be easy. i'm glad we ended up with vietnam though. second of all, the minute we started plating i felt like i saw the bias. i don't want to go into specifics why, but that's just how i felt. and then the presentations went. and i admit, some of us didn't seem too prepared with the info or history and we weren't very exciting with it, but we did a really good job at explaining the american/vietnamese aspects of our dish and the history of each. and we didn't really read off of pieces of paper. well, not me anyway. but 210's finest wasn't all that wow either. we should have been tied. really.
it's whatever. it's just a school project. i think i was just upset because i got sick the day before, lost my voice, was late for class because we still had to prepare our food, and i wore shoes that hurt my feet so much that day we presented. yeah, all that in one day. AND we lost, to top it all off. yea, that was one of the worst days of my life. haha.
but all together, it still turned out to be a positive experience. and i agree with amanda, it did bring our group closer. blame it on the alcohol... hahaha jk.
-Donna
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