These were Sunday's competitors: Ryan and Jason, Frankie and Adrienne, and Amber. They are all students in the culinary school and classmates.
Here's Ryan sharpening his knives before the start.
Didn't really have much to do with the contest but he looked cute.
On Saturday, everyone came with their own recipes and ingredients. For the final competition, each team got a "mystery box," like on the TV cooking shows (and Ryan's interview).
I don't remember all the items but the main thing was salmon. There was papaya, kukui nuts, cilantro, peppers, tomato, tempura sauce, hot sauce, and various Aloha Shoyu sauces (since they were a sponsor).
They had 45 minutes to come up with a poke using all the ingredients in the box. Jason and Ryan came up with a plan pretty quickly and got going.
"Plating" the samples for the People's Choice judges. Judging was the same as the day before, with 50% weight from the expo attendees and 50% from the designated judges.
Here's the final entry: salmon two ways - one cooked and one made into a pate.
Amazing job to put all this together in such a short time with "mystery" ingredients.
Here are the hungry samplers.
Voting for my favorite team!
The aftermath...all the samples are gone.
Photos with Ryan's Chef-Instructors while we were waiting for the results: Chef Alan Tsuchiyama.
Chef Warren Uchida
Hamming it up!
And the winners are...RYAN AND JASON!
Here are all the competitors, with the Fresh Catch guys. Jason and Ryan are holding their Alaska Airlines tickets.
Poke Masters in front of the Alaska Air sign...
and in front of their school sign.
Congratulations! So proud of both of you!
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