Thailand whips up four gold medals at Culinary Olympics in Germany

BANGKOK, Oct 12 -- Thailand has proven its culinary prowess at the IKA World Culinary Olympics 2012 in Germany, winning four gold and one silver medals.

Chef Willment Leong, Thailand Culinary Academy founder and chairman, who led a group of Thai chefs to compete at the IKA World Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany October 5-10, told reporters upon the team’s return from Germany that the Thai chefs won four gold and one silver medal at the competition.

Chef Leong said there were more than 1,500 chefs representing more than 60 countries worldwide competing in the world’s most prestigious culinary competition, an even held every four years.

Thailand's team won medals for only the second time in 30 years, he said.

The Thai chiefs' winning entries which impressing judges with their edible culinary art were wedding cake, sugar show piece and dessert pastry.

The junior chefs team won a gold medal for hot cooking.

The junior national culinary teams won silver medal for cold display.

Mr Leong said that the team must seek financial support itself and while it received support from several companies, it was not enough to cover all expenses.

The Thailand Chefs Team coach urged the government to support youth in this field, in a way similar to the youth are supported in sport.

The IKA World Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany, is billed as the oldest competition of its kind in the world with a tradition that dates back to 1900.

Similar to the Olympic Games, which brings together the best athletes from around the world, the IKA is the world’s single most elite competitive culinary event. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-10-12

does anybody have the medal table on this culinary event? which country team actually won the iron chef culinary olympics?

Final results from the website: http://2012.olympiade-der-koeche.de/de/presse/pressemitteilungen.html

I could only find the Thailand Junior Team in all the listings.

They finished overall 5th and won a Gold Medal for their hot meal.

In all other categories no mention of a Thai team taking part in the event.

Although the link to the results of the Military Teams ain't working.

Currently it is impossible to trace the Thai facts mentioned in this article back to the "All 2012 results" webpages already mentioned in a previous post.

Before the Culinary Olympics 2012 in Erfurt started a special award was given to Paul Bocuse in Lyon:

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I wonder if Thailand took their own veggies ??

No pat krapow kai dow?

Total banality of the highest order. When is the next one? I want to enter with my corned beef hash, a treat that only the lucky few can savour. My dear old Mum's bread pudding would have the judges in ecstacy.

BTW did any American Mom receive an award for her apple pie?

Thank god the boxing judges weren't there. There'd have been a food fight.

-mel.

Fifty-four countries competed. The top 10 winners this year: 1. Sweden 2. Norway 3. Germany 4. Canada 5. Switzerland 6. USA 7. Finland 8. Netherlands 9. Australia 10. Japan — http://www.themalays...linary-olympics

Edited October 12, 201213 yr by Nisa

Any culinary event that rates highly any of these (below) countries for outstanding food is a joke, unless of course they were not making dishes from their own national cusine:

Sweden

Norway

Germany

Switzerland

Finland

If anyone replies trying to argue these countries have "some great dishes", that's on the same par as saying Thailand makes some great wine, or Scotland has tall mountains etc. Some of the above nations may have a dish or two worth eating but overall they eat slop.

Fifty-four countries competed. The top 10 winners this year: 1. Sweden 2. Norway 3. Germany 4. Canada 5. Switzerland 6. USA 7. Finland 8. Netherlands 9. Australia 10. Japan — http://www.themalays...linary-olympics

Sweden? Again!!!!!! Oh it is heavy to wear all these medals.....

Glegolo

hey, Canadian back-bacon with potato and over-cooked carrot must of had the judges salivating in the isles! clearly a bias panel of judges.

Edited October 13, 201213 yr by HaleySabai

Reading the debile, loating, ignorant comments here on a most positive event ( a rarerity it seems.....) regarding the country that they have choosen to live in, only confirms me to stay away from the 10th Anniversary of TV.

Here are all results. Thailand made it to No. six in the

Junior National Culinary Teams

...amd that was it.

http://2012.olympiade-der-koeche.de/en/competitions/results.html

Here are all results. Thailand made it to No. six in the

Junior National Culinary Teams

...amd that was it.

http://2012.olympiad...ns/results.html

Does that mean that the newspaper lied about 4 goldmedals and so forth??? In that case, big surprice!!!

Glegolo

Missed out on t he Top ten.

At least Thailand got the Gold medals for roadside BBQ Rat, fried grashoppers and fried cockroaches.

Here are all results. Thailand made it to No. six in the

Junior National Culinary Teams

...amd that was it.

http://2012.olympiad...ns/results.html

Does that mean that the newspaper lied about 4 goldmedals and so forth??? In that case, big surprice!!!

Glegolo

...just read for yourself.

Australia at # 10. Must have been a sweet meat pie.

were they told to wash their hands 1st or was it left to their discretion ?. safest place to hide money in a thai hotel ?...- under the soap !

Where was England with its spotted dick?

seriously though. I v. much doubt Thailands chefs at the event used MSG. Yet it's still used profusely in nearly every restaurant in Thailand. Certainly in the north, where Chinese owned restaurants rule. How about if champion Thai chefs champion the abandonment of using MSG in Thai restaurants? Naw, not going to happen. Asking Thai restaurants to not use MSG for a personal visit, is like asking them to turn down very loud sound systems. At best, they'll turn it down a little bit, and deem it sufficient.

Where's France at such an important culinary event?

Maybe they are just trying to make up for no Gold Medals during the Olympics.