Global Chefs Challenge, Singapore Selection 2025

Calling All Culinary Talents! 

Do you want to represent Singapore as the Global Chefs Challenge competitor?

The Singapore Chefs’ Association is holding the national selection for the Global Chefs Challenge competitors in May!

The Global Chefs Challenge is where the world’s top chefs meet to compete in four competition categories. Selected through top performance at the Worldchefs Regional Semi-Finals in 2025, qualifying teams go head-to-head at the Global Chef Challenge Finals. Here, the best and brightest convene to show mastery in the culinary arts. There will be 7 regional semi-finals taking place around the world, which will see 70 nationalities come together.
There will be 4 different competitions; The Global Chefs Challenge, the Global Pastry Chefs Challenge, Global Vegan Chefs Challenge and the Global Young Chefs Challenge.
The Global Chefs Challenge Finals will be held at Worldchefs Congress & Expo 2026 in Newport, Wales.
Some media coverage of past GCC competitions:

2024:
https://www.8world.com/singapore/global-pastry-chef-challenge-2024-singapore-representative-2601651
https://www.8world.com/singapore/global-chefs-challenge-2024-singapore-team-result-2608006

2022:
https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/dining/singapore-pastry-chef-dexter-lee-ite-global-pastry-chefs-challenge-317596
https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/dining/team-singapore-wins-first-prize-global-pastry-chef-challenge-2022-abu-dhabi-314401

The selection for the Singapore selection for the following will be on 3 May at Temasek Polytechnic

The Global Chefs Challenge
Global Vegan Chefs Challenge
Global Young Chefs Challenge

Please note that this competition is only for professional chefs.
View the competition guidelines here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hq_pxRfOTvyW8ZJARUMMg8U6Bx_6skbG/view?usp=share_link

Register for this chance to represent Singapore: https://bit.ly/gccsg2025

The selection for the Global Pastry Chefs Challenge will take place in July. Stay tuned on @singaporechefs for more info.

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