Game Companies Compete in the Kitchen for Charity

Game publishers person been cooking for charity! As portion of gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2025, the archetypal ever Charity Cook-Off was held successful Bangkok connected October 13, with 10 contestants from the crippled manufacture flexing their room skills for Chef Willment Leong, the hot-tempered personage cook who hosts Hell’s Kitchen Thailand.

Chef Willment Leong inspects a crockery by Joystick Venture’s Ivan Carrillo

The lawsuit was livestreamed successful enactment of 2 charities, 1 planetary and 1 local: Doctors Without Borders, and the Bangkok Community Help Foundation.

Among the lineup of contestants was… me! Representing IGN Japan, I felt the unit to bring the spice, doing my champion to replicate Chef Willment’s signature paper that blends the Western crockery salmon confit with a Thai twist – greenish curry pick sauce, crispy chickenhearted tegument crust, handmade ailoi, poached ovum and rocket salad.

IGN Japan’s Daniel Robson presents his finished dish.

Bonus points were awarded for adding a videogame twist, truthful my crockery was populated by cute small edible Pokémon and a Mario-themed salad.

Here’s the afloat database of contestants:

• Adorapixel - Gordon Van Dyke
• Powell Group - Jay Powell
• Raw Fury - Johan Toresson
• Miniclip - Govind Cacciatore
• Wired Production - Leo Zullo
• Joystick Venture - Ivan Carrillo
• IGN - Daniel Robson
• PlayPark - Jham (Sattra Viriyacharoentham)
• AGP - Lili Zang
• Poki - Romy Halfweeg

The lawsuit was hosted by gaming concern institution Agora Gaming Partners and gamescom asia organizer Koelnmesse. It was held successful the professional-grade room of Dusit Thani College, arsenic seen connected cooking shows similar Netflix’s The Maverick Academy. The assemblage besides provided unpaid assistants – my adjunct Tia was awesome, and helped marque definite I didn’t acceptable occurrence to oregon portion disconnected thing important.

Daniel and his adjunct Tia sheet up and airs for a speedy room selfie

As crippled media, we often reappraisal creations made by crippled companies, truthful it was a thrill to beryllium connected the different broadside and person the judges complaint my cooking! Cooking nether pressure, surrounded by cameras and nether a choky clip bounds successful an unfamiliar kitchen, was an acquisition I’ll ne'er forget. I didn’t triumph (my salmon was a small pink), but I didn’t embarrass myself horribly either, and I was particularly arrogant of my effort astatine greenish curry pick condiment – I’ll tinker and cleanable that look astatine location for sure.

A digest video volition beryllium published soon, but you tin cheque retired the archive of the afloat livestream present close now.