US - Vietnamese Chef Duong Huy Khai won the golden medal at the first International Beijing Culinary Competition held in Beijing, China from June 19-21.

The competition attracted more than 200 leading chefs from 30 nations and territories in the world.  

 Chef Duong Huy Khai with his prize

 Russian Chef Igor Tumarkin and Thai chef Thanaphat Buapijit won the silver and bronze medals, respectively.

At the competition, Khai prepared Salangane’s nest soup. The Salangane’s nest he brought to the competition was from the coastal province of Khanh Hoa, his native province. His creativeness in preparing this dish was to successfully combine Asian and European styles. He made sauce from tomatoes, carrots, lemongrass, turnips, onion and ginkgo (from Europe), which created the delicate combination of flavours with the nest of the salangane (from Asia) to create the special, award winning soup./.

(CPV)