Soneva MasterChef 2022

It’s time to turn up the heat!
Do you have what it takes to slice and dice the competition, and win the coveted title of Soneva MasterChef?

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After a four-year break, Soneva MasterChef is back, and this year it’s bigger than ever! Are you ready to pit your most impressive culinary skills against your fellow hosts and wow the judging panel? As well as winning the title of Soneva MasterChef 2022 and the coveted MasterChef trophy, the victor will also see their dish become part of our guest-facing menu, along with other special prizes.

Open to all Soneva hosts, registration has been extended, meaning there’s still time to enter! Stay tuned for the new dates, which will be announced soon. Follow the latest Soneva MasterChef news on Workplace here.

ENTER SONEVA MASTERCHEF 2022!

MasterChef Round 1 at Soneva Kiri

See the photos and watch the action from the first set of MasterChef heats at Soneva Kiri. As tensions simmered, the talented team crafted a mouth-watering selection of children’s dishes to serve to the judging panel.

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This Year’s Theme – Healthy Food

The theme this year is food for health and wellness – across each round of the competition, we want you to create the kind of cuisine that doesn’t just taste and look wonderful, but nourishes mind, body and soul, too.

The Heats

The competition consists of three rounds in total. The first two rounds will be held at the resort or location where you work (including Soneva Fushi, Soneva Jani, Soneva Kiri and the Hub). The grand final will be held at Soneva Fushi. The competition will be held at each venue from 3pm to 5pm resort time (local time in Bangkok).

Select carefully as this is the qualifying round and must focus on child-friendly food. Only four hosts from each location will qualify for the next round.

The permitted cooking time is 1 hour.

This must be a different dish from the first round, prepared for an adult diner. Only two hosts from each location will qualify for the finals.

The permitted cooking time is 1 hour.

Each finalist will present their dishes to a panel of Michelin-starred chefs at Soneva Fushi.

The permitted cooking time is 2 hours.

How to Enter

Registration has now been extended – so there’s still time to sign up!
Click on the link to the entry form, and fill in your details.
Tell us what dishes you plan to cook for Rounds 1 and 2.
Submit a full list of ingredients at the Chef’s Office, to make sure the ingredients can be arranged in advance.

Click here to sign up for Soneva MasterChef 2022

Creating Your Menu

This year’s health and wellness theme should play a big part in your choice of dish.
To enter, sign up here and tell us about the two dishes you plan to make for Round 1 and Round 2.
- Round 1: Healthy Children’s Food.
- Round 2: Wellness Food for Adults.
- Final: Theme TBC.
Your menu must adhere to Soneva’s principles on food and cuisine: no items on our No-No list are permitted, and deep-fried items are not recommended.
To keep things reasonable, all ingredient items in your menu should be available at the location of the competition.
A maximum budget of USD 25 (THB 800) is permitted for the meal ingredients in your full menu (Rounds 1 and 2).
Each dish will be judged on 9 criteria:
- Communication
- Colour
- Quality
- Environmental cost
- Creativity
- Soneva element
- Texture
- Aroma
- Flavour

Top Tips!

This is not just a cooking competition – it’s a test of creativity!
The way you communicate about your dishes is just as important as what you create.
Sponsored by the hub, Soneva MasterChef is a fantastic team-building activity as well as helping us expand our culinary horizons to further strengthen our F&B experience for guests and hosts alike.
There is no separate category for chefs. Chefs who decide not to participate can become mentors.

The Rules

Contestants must submit a menu of 2 dishes that are good enough to be featured on guest menus across all Soneva resorts.
The dishes presented must be for one guest only.
The contestants must prepare and cook all dishes themselves without any help or assistance from others, except the judges’ recommendations.
The cooking time for Rounds 1 and 2 is 1 hour. The Final will be 2 hours.
Your menu must adhere to Soneva’s principles on food and cuisine: no items on our No-No list are permitted, and deep-fried items are not recommended.
To keep things reasonable, all ingredient items in your menu should be available at the location of the competition.
A maximum budget of USD 25 (THB 800) is permitted for the meal ingredients in your full menu (Rounds 1 and 2).
Each contestant is allowed to bring utensils and any cookware from his/her own kitchen. If a dish requires a longer preparation time (such as a marinade or stewing), the participant is allowed to prepare at the venue the day before, however the prep time (excluding stewing/marinating time) will be subtracted from the cooking time the following day.
Contestants are not allowed to bring in sub-recipes, such as home-made pastes or sauces. If needed, contestants are allowed to use commercially produced sauces or pastes but any ‘home-made’ sub-recipes must be made by the contestants during the competition time.
Each contestant may supply his/her own dishes and plates for the presentation of the cooked food, or use the plates the cooking venue supplies. Other table dressings are not required, and will not be taken into consideration by the judges, so there is no need to bring them along.
Photographs, video and interviews will be taken throughout the competition and may be used in promotional material.
Contestants are welcome from all areas of Soneva including Chefs, however Executive Chefs, GMs and Judges are excluded from participating in the contest.
Contestants must be over the age of 18, as of April 2022.
Contestants must be available to participate on all dates of the competition.
Contestants must submit their menus and ingredient lists at least one week before the start of the event (dates to be announced soon).

Soneva MasterChef 2022

MasterChef Round 1 at Soneva Kiri

This Year’s Theme – Healthy Food

The Heats

Round 1 – Healthy Children’s Food

Round 2 – Wellness Food

Round 3 – Grand Final – Theme TBC

How to Enter

Creating Your Menu

Top Tips!

The Rules

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