She said the recipes were too complicated and included ingredients that were so obscure even experienced chefs would be left scratching their heads. "I didn't know what a boab was.
I still don't know what it is. Kohlrabi cones?" said Courtney, who was asked to make Orana's signature prawn dish on Tuesday.
She explained that the techniques were also foreign to her. "I'd never put burrata through a siphon gun before... that's why I took so long reading the recipe," she said. "I thought they gave me the Taiwanese version and I couldn't actually understand it." Despite her 10 years' professional experience, the chef says the recipes were just too complicated for her to handle.
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