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MasterChef China

MasterChef China is a Chinese television cooking reality show and a spin-off from the original British MasterChef in 1990. The show is sponsored by Joyoung and Zwiliing. Contestants from all over China have competed on the show. It is a stage where ordinary people can realize their culinary dreams and show their love for food and cooking. What the contestants are faced with are weekly eliminations as well as team challenges. Fairmont Peace Hotel Executive Chef Steven Liu, popular host and "Professional Eater" Cao Kefan and the musician Jonathan Lee Tsung-sheng serve as the main judges of MasterChef China. The first season aired on 29 July 2012 Dragon TV.

In the first round of preliminaries, amateur cooks were chosen to cook their signature dish for the three judges. All three judges will taste all the signature dishes and give their comments. Then will vote either a "yes" or "no" for each dish. The contestant will be allowed to advance and earn a white MasterChef apron if he can get at least two "yes" votes.

The second round of preliminaries was designed to test the necessary basic skills that a chef should have. The contestants were required to slice and dice onions. Those who met the standards of the judges are allowed to advanced to the next round and the rest were eliminated.

In the last round of the preliminaries, the theme of the challenge was to create a stunning dish with a core ingredient in an hour. The hero of the dish must be the core ingredient.

In this section, contestants are given different ingredients or a theme that they do not know in advance. They can choose to use all or some of the ingredients they want to make their dish with. The judges would only taste the dishes from the top three contestants and one of them would be chosen as the winner of the section. The winner of the mystery box challenge would receive an advantage in the next elimination challenge.

At the beginning of the invention test, three kinds of ingredients would be presented and the winner of mystery box challenge would have the advantage to decide the core ingredients in this section. Contestants can choose ingredients that they are familiar with or ingredients that would cause the other contestants to crumble. The other contestants can later choose any other ingredients in the pantry to help with the ingredient chosen. The contestants have 45 to 60 minutes to create a dish and the judges will decide the three worst contestants in this challenge. They would then compete in an elimination challenge, which is the pressure test while the other contestants would be safe in this section and go upstairs.

This is an elimination challenge where the last three contestants in the invention test (or the losing team in the team challenge) will compete against each other. The loser in this section is to take off his/her apron, place it on his/her station and leave the competition. The contestants in this challenge would be given a particular recipe that they are required to try their best to imitate with limited time. When they finish, the judges will taste each dish and give their opinions. In the end, they will decide who has performed the worst in this section and he/she would leave.

In this challenge, the contestants compete in two teams, blue and red. The number of members on each team is equal and they would be given a task, such as cooking for a party. There would be a third-party group of judges to determine the winner. The losing team would face an elimination test while the winner would be safe from being eliminated.

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