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Pandan Surprise

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Pandan Surprise in a Coconut Cup
TOP DISH, team Asia Pacific. Jaime, who describes herself as a content creator with two million followers, built a five layer pandan and coconut dessert served inside a coconut shell and presented on dry ice for the reveal. The layers were a pandan cake, coconut cream, toasted coconut crumble, coconut pudding and coconut jelly. She swapped the bowls by accident at the pass so the dry ice ended up in the wrong vessel, and admitted she forgot the orange zest and that the cake was slightly underbaked. The dish took a top 10 place.
Dialogue:
{Jaime}: "It's Nick DiGiovanni."
{Jaime}: "I literally love him."
{Jaime}: "I'm just a big fan, and I do content creation too, so I know how hard the game is."
{Jaime}: "I have 2 million across all my social media."
{Jaime}: "I'm doing a pandan surprise in a coconut cup. So it's gonna be five layers of pandan, and it's gonna be served in the coconut."
{Jaime}: "Pandan is like a grounded vanilla, and it's more subtle and earthy."
{Jaime}: "I'm gonna serve it on top of some dry ice to really get that viral effect, and that way, the dessert will stay cold as well."
{Jaime}: "Accidentally swapped the bowls. Like, the dry ice is supposed to be in here."
{Jaime}: "I did finish it. I forgot, like, the orange zest. 4 out of 5 of my components went well. My cake is a little under, so I'm a little worried for sure."
{Jaime}: "With this top dish, I'm officially in the top 10. It's really heavy. I really want that collab with Nick. I really hope I get it."
{Jaime}: "Tonight I made a pandan surprise with five layers, a pandan cake, a coconut cream, toasted coconut crumble, a coconut pudding, and coconut jelly."
JUDGES' COMMENTS
{Nick DiGiovanni}: "I love pandan. First of all, I feel like not that many people understand. Describe the flavor of pandan to people that don't know."
{Nick DiGiovanni}: "Visually, it definitely has that wow factor. I like the coconut plating. It leaves some mystery, which for social media and for virality is actually really nice because it makes you want to watch to the end. So I love it."
{Nick DiGiovanni}: "I love it. I think the visuals were there. It has that viral potential. I want to go back in for a second and third and fourth bite."
{Gordon Ramsay}: "The combination of the flavors, it tastes delicious. There's no two ways about that. Then you've got that nice little breakaway of that soft, fragrant jelly, which is lovely."
{Tiffany Derry}: "Beautiful presentation. It feels like an adventure. It feels like every bite could be slightly different. Flavor wise, it's delicious and fun."
{Joe Bastianich}: "A nice dessert. Really good."
{Gordon Ramsay}: "Great job. Well done, Jaime."
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