Samjin Eomuk Holds the 2nd Creative Eomuk Cooking Contest with Korea Food Service Science High School

70th Anniversary Celebration

Samjin Fish Cake, a representative fish cake brand in Korea (CEO Park Yong-jun), held the “2nd Creative Fish Cake Cooking Contest” in celebration of its 70th anniversary in collaboration with Korea Food Service Science High School (Principal Lee Hee-bin).

Samjin Fish Cake, which held the '2nd Creative Fish Cake Cooking Contest' together with Korea Food Service Science High School to celebrate its 70th anniversary.

To mark its 70th anniversary, Samjin Fish Cake planned the second Creative Fish Cake Cooking Contest with Korea Food Service Science High School as part of activities involving customers. Korea Food Service Science High School is a specialized high school in culinary arts with a 60-year tradition, located in Nam-myeon, Yangju City.

This year’s “Creative Fish Cake Cooking Contest” selected the final winners through a first round of document screening and a second round of practical (on-site) judging.

The grand prize among the final selected winners was ▲“Fish Cake Lasagna” served with fish cake ragu sauce. The winning dish was submitted with a recipe that replaced meat with fish cake to create a fish cake ragu sauce that highlights the aroma and flavor of fish cake, and substituted lasagna noodles with fish cake to enhance the texture.

Additionally, the excellence award went to ▲Fish Cake Buerst with wild chive lemon butter sauce (2nd-year culinary class student Lee Si-hoon), the encouragement award was given to ▲Wild chive fish cake dumplings with yuzu ponzu sauce (2nd-year cooking class student Lee Su-jin), and fish cake ball katsu (2nd-year culinary class student Lee Do-yeon) was also selected as a winning dish.

Jung Ye-won, a 2nd-year student who won the grand prize, said in her acceptance speech, “It was a unique and valuable experience to have the opportunity to create a marketable dish using fish cake as an ingredient,” adding, “Since I usually enjoy fish cake as a snack, it was especially meaningful to win by applying lasagna, which I learned in Western cooking class, using fish cake.”

The contest’s practical judging was conducted on-site by the Samjin Fish Cake marketing and franchise teams, focusing on the creativity and originality of dishes utilizing fish cake.

Grand Prize-winning work, 'Eomuk Lasagna' served with fish cake ragu sauce.

A representative from Samjin Fish Cake said, “Through this cooking contest, we once again confirmed the potential of fish cake,” and added, “It was a very meaningful time to have the opportunity to communicate with students who will become key figures in the food service industry in the future through fish cake.”

Samjin Foods, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, signed a business agreement (MOU) for industry-academia cooperation with Korea Food Service Science High School last July.

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