Hell's Kitchen

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Chino Chang ELIMINATED: 7/26/11

Chino Chang

  • What was your first job in a kitchen?

    Scaling and gutting fish at my dad's fish store on the weekends while I was in junior high school.

  • What is the first dish you ever mastered?

    Short grain white rice. There's an art and specific steps to making the perfect rice. My mother had a technique. She's been cooking rice every day for 40 years and she taught me.

  • What is your signature dish?

    I don't have one particular signature dish. It’s more a style of Korean or Asian cuisine combined with rustic American Continental mixed equally.

  • Any stories of triumph from the kitchen or workplace? Disaster?

    Everyone on the line was fainting because the air conditioner broke in the kitchen and it must have been 140 degrees with wood burning grills and high-temp broilers on a small line. So I patched up waiters, managers, dishwashers and hosts and showed them what needed to be cooked and how to do it. We ended up doing 1,000 covers for the day and, I swear, I lost six pounds that day! I remember weighing myself in the morning and weighing myself when I got home and I lost six pounds of water weight from sweating!

  • Who was your first cooking inspiration?

    My Mom. All mothers I know who cook every day for their families.