NTD Television's Fifth Annual International Chinese Culinary Competition with support from the James Beard Foundation and the Food Network, will take place in the heart of Times Square on September 27th and 28th 2012.

Chinese master chefs from around the world will gather to compete during a live to web broadcast from NTD's mobile kitchen studios in Times Square — designed to recreate the architecture of the ancient Chinese Tang Dynasty capital of Chang'an — while creating authentic and traditional dishes in the five major categories of Chinese cuisines: Sichuan, Shandong, Cantonese, Huaiyang and Northeastern.

Prizes will be awarded to winners in each of the five cuisine categories ranging from a $10,000 gold award to a $3,000 silver award, and $1,000 bronze award.

Following the first day's preliminary competitions, the NTD Annual Benefit Gala will take place on site in Times Square.

West will meet East in the Fire Up The Wok challenge, a culinary cultural exchange featuring celebrity chefs:

Julietta Ballesteros
Antoine Camin
Maneet Chauhan
Clark Frasier
Malcolm Mitchell

Judges for this event are Susie Fogelson from the Food Network and Yunqiang Qu, Head Judge from the NTD International Culinary Competition.

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