Pinoy Jr. MasterChef's Top 4 Live Cook Off Finals Feb 18,2012

On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the fate of the top 4 grand finalists in the Jr. MasterChef Pinoy Edition will be decided via "The Live Cook Off".

Winner of this last challenge will receive P1.5 million culinary scholarships, P1 Million and many kitchen appliances.

Who will be among these kiddie cooks win the first Junior MasterChef Pinoy edition?

UPDATE:  Congratulations Kyle!

Kyle Adrian Imao

Jobim Jalbuena

Mika Tanaka

Philip Amarillo

Pinoy Jr MasterChef Fairy Tale Challenge

This Saturday, 15 October 2011, the remaining 18 Jr MasterChefs were confronted with a fairy tale dish challenge. The mission was to create a fantastic menu using frog's legs, pumpkin and apples as main ingredients. They were given 1 1/2 hours to create their dishes. Ivan Dorschner was special guest who appeared as a prince to serve as an inspiration.

Prince Ivan Dorschner

Although frog's legs look like humans, they taste like chicken. I, myself, like frog dishes. My favorite is called "batutay"  (in other parts of the Philippines, batutay is a type of longganiza) where the whole frog is skinned, stuffed the belly with minced flesh from the other frogs with salt, onion, pepper and garlic and deep fry it. In Pampanga, they call the dish "betute" and add minced pork. It tastes like heaven!

"Batutay" or "Betute"

http://www.rarelyordered.com/2008/11/everybodys-cafe-authentic-kapampangan/

The top 3 for this week's fairy tale and their corresponding points were:

1) Patrick Baldosano - 6 points

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Patrick-Baldosano/129780907114460?sk=photos

2) Mika Tanaka - 4 points

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mika-Tanaka-Junior-Masterchef-Pinoy-Edition/189642001096274?sk=photos

3) Kyle Imao - 2 points

http://www.facebook.com/JMC.KyleImaoOfficial?sk=photos

All the rests were given one point each.