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Competitors merge culture, culinary arts into a Korean dish

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Grant Sato's winning chap chae entry used pineapple juice to add acidity and sweetness.
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Kenneth Lee's dish had a sculptural quality.
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Recent Kapiolani Community College culinary school graduate Kenneth Lee tasted his chap chae as a clock counted down the time left in Monday's competition.
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Shayna Robertson was partly inspired by a trip she took to Korea in 2013.
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A cameraman filmed competitors Shayna Kum Siu Lum Robertson, left, Kenneth Lee, Ian Robertson and Aaron Miller as they gathered ingredients for the third-annual cookoff sponsored by the Korean government.
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First-place winner Grant Sato plates his dish during a competition Monday at Kapiolani Community College.