This 11-year-old loves to cook
out to buy any on account of the floods. Kyle, only 9 at the time, walked up to the fridge, got stuff together and whipped up something for the people to eat. Kyle has since been helping his dad, who also likes to invent and cook.”
Victory parties
Kyle’s dad served salad, spring rolls and chicken bonchon during the grand champ’s thanksgiving dinner on Friday at the grandparents’ house. Kyle’s fellow “Masterchef” contestants, their parents, as well as the production team, all turned up to celebrate with him.
(He won P1 million in cash and a culinary scholarship worth P1.5 million.)
“Kyle was at school so his dad did all the cooking—except for the lechon,” Mylene related. But on his grandma’s 71st birthday, Kyle surprised everyone with his version of garlic prawns.
“I cooked eight kilos of prawns,” the boy recounted. It was tough peeling more than one kilo of garlic for that.” Also on the menu that night were, again, lechon, plus callos and the family’s specialty, pancit luglug.
For Living Stars, Kyle whipped up his Asian-fusion shrimps and scallops, the dish he prepared for the judges during the grand finale. His mom enumerated the ingredients: “Vermicelli noodles, scallops, shrimps with garlic plum sauce, lime jelly, cilantro/lime sauce, salad base—and the pomelo foam, which was the most difficult to make.”
Sports, too
Kyle’s parents would like him to continue cooking. “He should do a lot more baking because he’s already an expert in savory dishes. Although we don’t want him to neglect his studies,” Mylene said. Kyle is a sixth grader at the Our Lady of Perpetual Succor College in Concepcion, Marikina.
His mom said: “Also, we’d like him to get into sports. He wants to learn how to swim. Kim and I hope to introduce him to biking and mountain climbing. He needs to get more exercise, instead of just being in the kitchen all the time.”
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