Top contenders cook for first prize at Darwin International Laksa Festival

ABC NEWS (Australia)

As Darwin prepares for this weekend's Laksa Festival grand finale, three restaurants have been named as contenders for the top prize. Their chefs will battle it out for the first time at the Darwin waterfront, preparing their final offerings live on stage.

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00:00Three champions going for gold. The competition heating up to showcase Darwin's favourite

00:10soup.

00:11Very happy, very excited to be in the top three of the Laksa competition.

00:15Three culinary maestros on stage for the first time, vying for the coveted golden bowl.

00:21I'm feeling a little bit scared because it's the first time I'm into the stage cooking

00:26in front of our judges, in front of a lot of people so I'm a little bit scared but at the same time I'm excited too.

00:34Their Laksa combinations bringing the competition to boiling point.

00:39A good bowl of broth.

00:41I do use few native ingredients which are grown in Australia in Northern Territory like Sunrise Lime which is from Uluru.

00:49Recipe, you have to cook bitlap.

00:52For local restaurants, the Laksa festival provides a boom.

00:55For this season, it's really helpful business. For me, it's really, really helpful.

01:00And people just Laksa, Laksa, Laksa, wanna try and they really love it.

01:05The clamour for Laksa, worth its weight in gold.

01:09And if you look forward to the ability to do it, I'll be able to do it in a little bit of a little bit.

01:11But if you look forward to the family, we must also look forward to it as well.

01:15And if you look forward to it, you can just keep it in the little bit.

01:16And it's really good to look forward to everything that you're doing.

01:18So understandably that the other今天 can do what I'm thinking about,

01:27and the other things that I'm looking for for you, we're going to give you a little bit.

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