{"id":55207,"date":"2026-05-25T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=55207"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:27:35","slug":"team-singapore-chefs-clinch-first-and-third-places-at-global-chefs-challenge-finals-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=55207","title":{"rendered":"Team Singapore chefs clinch first and third places at Global Chefs Challenge Finals 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wong is a junior sous chef at The Westin Singapore, while Cheng is a pastry sous chef at Fairmont Singapore and Swissotel The Stamford. The latter competed alongside fellow Singapore pastry chef Ng Shi Hui, also from Fairmont Singapore and Swissotel The Stamford.<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore team was supported by the Singapore Chefs Association and the Singapore Pastry Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Worldchefs ahead of the finals, Wong described representing Singapore as \u201ctruly an honour\u201d, and Cheng similarly said she hoped to \u201cmake Singapore proud\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the Global Chefs Challenge category, Wong was required to prepare a multi-course menu consisting of an appetiser, intermediate course, main course and dessert within a set timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cheng\u2019s pastry category focused on technical dessert work. Teams had to create chocolate and sugar showpieces, entremet cakes and plated desserts based on a competition theme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/dining\/singapore-chefs-global-chefs-challenge-2026-wales-6139751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wong is a junior sous chef at The Westin Singapore, while Cheng is a pastry sous chef at Fairmont Singapore and Swissotel The Stamford. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--G-xKVGL9--\/c_crop,h_607,w_1080,x_0,y_417\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/05\/25\/global_chefs_global_pastry_association_singapore_chef_association.jpg?itok=gIKPxjkB","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[250,9433,12670,7237,899,1396,22,773],"class_list":["post-55207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-challenge","tag-chefs","tag-clinch","tag-finals","tag-global","tag-places","tag-singapore","tag-team","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}