Judges (Gail Simmons, Tom Colicchio, Kristen Kish)

"It has really good flavor. Mm . It's a nice dish."

"Even with the rice cracker??"

"Oh, no, I'm not eating the rice cracker. The second they sit, they get soggy."

At the judges table ...

"Laura and the beef tartare. Good way to start. But the rice crackers were really bad."

"But overall, the salsa macha and the gochujang, for me, I was, like, wait a second. This was dynamite."