DPA
Wellington- Patrick Lam had never seen, let alone eaten, a pie when he arrived in New Zealand as a refugee from Cambodia 13 years ago.
Today, he is the nation's undisputed Pie King - again.
Patrick won the national Supreme Pie Award on Tuesday for the fourth time in the competition's 14-year history.
His bacon-and-egg special was named the best of a record 4,336 entries from 386 bakeries in this year's competition.
Lam, who owns Gold Star Patrick's Pies in Rotorua and Tauranga, won the supreme award in 2003 with a mince and cheese pie and in 2004 and again last year with a gourmet meat pie.
"The pastry is the secret," he told Television New Zealand's Breakfast programme on Wednesday. "If you make good pastry, you make a good pie."
Asian bakers dominate the New Zealand pie scene, contributing 70 per cent of the entries in this year's competition and winning 80 per cent of the awards across all categories.
Today, he is the nation's undisputed Pie King - again.
Patrick won the national Supreme Pie Award on Tuesday for the fourth time in the competition's 14-year history.
His bacon-and-egg special was named the best of a record 4,336 entries from 386 bakeries in this year's competition.
Lam, who owns Gold Star Patrick's Pies in Rotorua and Tauranga, won the supreme award in 2003 with a mince and cheese pie and in 2004 and again last year with a gourmet meat pie.
"The pastry is the secret," he told Television New Zealand's Breakfast programme on Wednesday. "If you make good pastry, you make a good pie."
Asian bakers dominate the New Zealand pie scene, contributing 70 per cent of the entries in this year's competition and winning 80 per cent of the awards across all categories.
4 comments:
I am very pleased to see my fellow Cambodian in NZ as the best Pie makers of New Zealand. Cambodian people are very wellknown to NZ as an ethnis who is very popular in running bakery. In almost every bakery is run by Cambodian family. I would like to congratulate Pat for his every sucess. His father in law is my closed friends and he is a good Buddhist by giving a lot to charity. We are the most active ethnic in New Zealand by our contribution to this country economy.
Areak Prey
This kiwi agrees. Also a bakery in Whangarei owned by Cambodians. Good food, good prices, now will you please come back to PP and do the same.
cambodian is king of bakery in new zealand.
The way we Cambodian did outside of our country Cambodia, we all later able protect and help our country Cambodia and our Khmer people.
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