Hi ! I'm Dika or you can also call me Ara. This blog is just some of the tale of my life. Hope you can enjoy it !
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Gemini Mate for K-Food Campus Festival 2017
When Food lover and Korean lover become a team.
Last May 2017, The Embassy of South Korea in Indonesia held the K-Food Campus Festival 2017 event at Universitas Negeri Jakarta. As the pre-event, the committee also had a cooking competition in digital - Facebook. It was my friend, Eel, who found the information and she shared the ads to me and asked whether U wanted to join. I was a bit afraid at the beginning since we need to make a cooking video making Korean Dishes, but the I decided to accept the challenge and so did she.
We were brainstorming and looking for some references of what we wanted to cook for the video. Eel was living in Korea for 1 year to study Korean Language and she ever participated in cooking class when she was there. Thus, she helped me to know some of the Korean foods. Finally we decided to create 2 recipes using Tteobokki (rice cake) and Samyang (The famous Korean Spicy Noodle) as the main ingredients.
Before we created the video, we went to Korean supermarket in Blok A to buy the ingredients. Afterward, we went to my home and started making the video. With our limitation in videography, utilizing camera and our phone we started to shoot the video. By the way, It was Eel who became the hand talent on the video π.
We named our first recipe λΆλκ³λλ§μ΄ / Hot Fire Egg Roll using Samyang as the main ingredient
While for the second video we modify the Tteokbokki into a skewer style and use some 2 different types of sauces to enjoy this food
Alhamdulillah, 2 weeks after the end date, Eel was being informed that we were one of the chosen teams to continue to the final round. We were so happy to know the result and surprised at the same time especially when we knew we need to prepare 3 kind of dishes: Bulgogi Rice, Bulgogi Noodle and Bulgogi Burger.
The Announcement
Poster for The Grand Final
Both of us were busy and had limited time to practice for the grand final. I was in Bandung and Jogja while Eel was having a lot of event. As the consequences, we only had one day which was one day before the final day to practice. I never tried Bulgogi so I didn't know exactly the taste so I just learned from YouTube how to make this food. At first, Eel tried to make the recipe using the ready-to-use product to make the Bulgogi. The taste was ok but she thought that it was the taste for Bulgogi and the color was too dark and not tempting. For the second trial, we made it from scratch and we were happy with the result - at least it was edible π. Anyhow, for the burger one we got confused since we were guessing, whether to use the Bulgogi as is or to make patty for the burger. Then, end with practiced by making a patty. Overall, we were happy with the result but a bit worried about what would happened tomorrow since we did't know how big was the event and also the ingredients that they would provide.
Our experiment with Bulgogi
I woke up early in the morning and took Trans Jakarta to UNJ - The location for Grand Final. Eel was there already and she texted me that we would cook at the stage ! By the time, I was there, I met Eel and we started to panic but what we could do was just laughing and nothing to lose.
During the competition https://kumparan.com/niken-nurani/kedubes-korsel-gelar-k-food-campus-festival-2017-di-kampus-unj
A few minutes before the competition, the committee asked the participant to go on stage for the preparation, briefed us and gave some cooking tips. In addition, they gave us the chef jacket and also apron to change.
Again we were in panic when they informed us that we had to finished 3 dishes within 45 minutes. With the spirit and the power of Gemini, we started to cook. Sometimes I got confused to cook some ingredients and so did Eel. The judges with their note were walking around to each table. They started to give score on the preparation, cooking method, the presentation and the taste. Sometimes, they also gave us tips for the cooking method.
That's us in the center of the stage http://www.suara.com/lifestyle/2017/05/18/151111/penggemar-k-pop-di-sini-ada-festival-makanan-korsel
The MC told us that we only had 5 minutes left to finish our dishes. All the participant was in panic and speed up their work. Time was up and we gave our final dishes to the judges. Nothing to lose but still put a big hope to win the competition.
The Final Presentation
After around half an hour, the MC and the judges announced the winner one-by-one. Sadly, they didn't call our name. We were a bit disappointed but then both of us were laughing and proud that we came until final. At the end, we were happy and this competition gave an unforgettable experience for us.
As the amplification, we found some articles about this event on the e-news portal and proud that our face were there π Hereby some articles that we found:
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