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Pinay chef serves a win on Food Network's 'Chopped'

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Rommel Conclara, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mSgUBFslkbg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0" width="560"></iframe></figure>CALIFORNIA - A Filipino-American chef from the San Francisco Bay Area showcased Filipino cuisine during a New Year’s Eve edition of The Food Network’s cooking competition show “Chopped”.Friends and family packed Somar Bar in Oakland, California to cheer on the Bay Area’s own Fil-Am chef Charleen Caabay.With $10,000 to win, chef Charleen faced off against three other contestants in the show’s first-ever New Year’s party.“The whole time I was nervous. I was looking at the other chefs and was seeing their strengths, their weaknesses but I was more grateful to be on the show itself. It’s huge!” she said.The competition started with an extravagant appetizer basket that included $50-worth of caviar and other pricey ingredients.Drawing inspiration from her Filipino culinary expertise, chef Charleen presented a crab torta with collard green-caviar laing.She was spared from elimination and moved on to more premium items in the entree basket.In this round, chef Charleen’s martini-steamed lobster tail with barbeque strip loin was a big hit among the judges.In the final round--the dessert round -- chef Charleen capped off her performance with a funnel cake with pomegranate-grape compote.In front of her friends and family in attendance, chef Charleen was announced the winner.She said victory was not hers alone. “When I went into Chopped, I wanted to put down Filipino food from the get-go. That was just something I was comfortable with it. I wanted to show it. This was my chance to show Filipino food to the world,” she said.Chef Charleen is planning a trip to the Philippines to develop a menu for a new restaurant she plans to open soon in the Bay Area.The Food Network is scheduled to air re-runs of the Chopped episode starting Thursday, December 29th through New Year’s Eve Saturday, December 31st.Read more on <a href="http://www.balitangamerica.tv/">Balitang America</a>

CALIFORNIA - A Filipino-American chef from the San Francisco Bay Area puts Filipino cuisine on full display during a New Year’s Eve edition of The Food Network’s cooking competition show “Chopped”.

CALIFORNIA - A Filipino-American chef from the San Francisco Bay Area puts Filipino cuisine on full display during a New Year’s Eve edition of The Food Network’s cooking competition show “Chopped”.

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Pinay chef serves a win on Food Network's 'Chopped'

Rommel Conclara,

ABS-CBN North America News Bureau

Published Dec 29, 2016 12:02 PM PHT

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