Changi Prison inmates face off in cooking competition

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CHEFS were bustling around in an industrial-scale kitchen in Changi last Friday.

But this was no commercial kitchen, and it was anything but a typical day there. This was a kitchen in Changi Prison, and the chefs were inmates caught up in the heat of a competition.

It was the final of the Yellow Ribbon Culinary Competition.

The three finalist teams, chosen from an original 12, had three hours to whip up a three-course Western meal.

An additional challenge lay in the use of a 'mystery ingredient', unveiled only 15 minutes before the competition, which the chefs had to use in two of the three dishes - watermelon.

The judges, who are executive chefs from the Marina Mandarin hotel and the Crowne Plaza Hotel Changi Airport, The Tanglin Club and Shatec Institutes, were looking for dishes that guests in a restaurant would be happy to pay for.

The winner was the only all-woman team. The inmates cannot be named.

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