BuddyTV - USA - Top Chef 2 winner
Ilan Hall and Top Chef 3 champ
Hung Huynh each came to their win via a different story arc. Ilan was the young chef with the Spanish cuisine know-how who battled against the chef,
Marcel Vigneron, that many viewers that season found to be thoroughly unlikable. Classically-trained Hung, on the other hand, was the chef many viewers found to be unlikable himself.
Since their seasons on Top Chef, the two have continued their culinary ambitions, and each recently had a new challenge to face, each, coincidentally, within the realm of kosher cooking.
As we've seen, neither chef has really been established as a kosher chef, a discipline that follows Jewish dietary laws, and requires following rules around acceptable cooking and serving practices and excluding certain ingredients like pork and shellfish.
For Hung's kosher adventure, he is headed to the Big Apple. He has a one-month contract as Executive Chef at Solo, a Mediterranean kosher restaurant with some Asian influences. His tenure will begin March 2, but, he told the New York Times, “Who knows, maybe I'll fall in love with the place.”
