"For Spike, he was not 100% behind the changes made." "I had my three bowls and then all I heard was like," ""it's gonna be too spicy."" "And, you know, Angelo and Tiffani just tossed my first three." "Really?" "Spike, please pack your knives and go." "I said, "is everybody comfortable with this?"" "There's four people there." "But you guys are Chefs too, you know what I'm saying?" "If you're confident in what you're doing and if you don't need help, then don't ask for help." "Do you want a little oil?" "A little oil?" "A little olive oil." "Nice." "What is it with Angelo touching people's food?" "Like, I don't get it." "It's some form of, like, Chef Tourette's." "Revelation got sustained." "Jamie, you know, I haven't seen her cook anything." "She cut her finger at the museum." "She didn't serve at the tennis court." "She's like an octopus, 'cause, you know, you never see 'em." "Something that, you know, just comes out every once in a while, cooks some chick peas, crawls back in their hole." "13 Chefs remain to fight it out for $1/2 million in cash and prizes, the most in Top Chef history, and the grand prize:" "A feature in Food and Wine magazine, a showcase at the annual Food and Wine classic in Aspen," "$200,000 to pursue their culinary dreams, furnished by Buitoni, and the title that's eluded them all" "Top Chef." "♪ Top Chef:" "All-Stars 8x05 ♪ Dim Sum Lose Sum Original Air Date on January 5, 2011" "Hello." "On a busy Saturday night, no matter how good your food is, if you don't get it out on time, your restaurant will not be successful." "For this quickfire, we're gonna test your speed against one of the nation's best Chefs." "He'll make a dish as fast as he can." "That will set the time that you have to beat." "I'm kind of nervous." "I don't really know what to expect." "Mean, there's so many great Chefs from all over the country." "And I'm just waiting to see who it is." "Please welcome..." "Oh-ho!" "Nice!" "As I see Tom walk into the kitchen," "I get an overwhelming sense of excitement, but at the same time, a huge sense of nervousness." "Chefs, as you know, speed can make or break you." "Working a busy night on a hot line, it can get you out of a lot of jams." "People come to restaurants for the food, but they come back for service." "This is gonna be interesting." "Tom's a genius." "I'm like, "you're gonna need a paramedic" ""for it, 'cause we're gonna go into cardiac arrest if we have to cook at his speed."" " Are you ready?" " I think I'm ready." "Keep in mind, I'm a little rusty." " You're sweating a little bit." " A little bit." "I expected that." "It's okay." "Take your time." "I know this is gonna be a 15-minute-or-less quickfire challenge." "I just know it." "I'm feeling sick." "Ready?" "Get set." "Go!" "He's very prepared, very mentally focused." "I knew he was gonna be on his game." "I mean, he's Tom Colicchio." "The most impressive thing is how organized it is." "Every move is synchronized perfectly with the next one." "It's good." "This guy's good." "I'm actually really impressed with how fast he opens up those clams." "Like Jersey shore back in the day, Chef." "You know it." "I'm starting to get concerned that I could have four minutes to make a dish." "Sorry, Padma." "Yeah." "I was, like, smiling from ear to ear just watching him." "You never see him in this way." "He's running, you know?" "I'm like, "come on, Chef." "Slow it down." "Slow it down."" "Chef, at least give us ten, okay?" "Seeing Tom cook like us is rad." "I got to give the man respect, because I've seen it firsthand." "Oh, yeah." "Time's up." "8:37." " No." " Are you freaking kidding me?" "I make my daughter peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the morning and have trouble getting it done in 8 minutes and 37 seconds." "I don't know how I'm gonna do this." "Here, just so if you want to make sure it tastes good." "Thanks, Chef." "We got zucchini, tomato." "It's a very good dish for 8 minutes and 37 seconds." "I mean, that would have been good dish in half an hour." " It's good, Chef." " Great." "Wow." "So it's just a simple dish with clam juice." "And the fish, I kept it on the skin side, flipped it over when I got here and that was pretty much it." "And that'll be the first and last time I do this." "Okay, Chefs, you're up." "It's our quickest quickfire ever." "Create a winning dish in less than 8 minutes and 37 seconds." "We are gonna factor in degree of difficulty, so if you go back there and cut a piece of tuna and say, "tuna tartare," and get it done in a minute." "It's not gonna go very far." "And, Chefs, to up the stakes even more, the winner of this quickfire will receive immunity and..." "A brand-new Toyota Prius." "Oh, look at you guys." "Giving away cars in quickfires." "Immunity?" "Pshh, give me the Toyota." "I'm not worried about going home." "Your 8 minutes and 37 seconds starts now." "When everybody goes that way and they're fighting with each other," "I'm gonna go that way and I'm gonna use" "Tom's leftover fish." "Oh, man, he's a wily one, this one." "I spotted Marcel using Tom's fish." "This is about beating the clock." "I think that's freaking awesome." "Crazy." "I open up the fridge and there's a piece of foie gras." "That's something that I know can cook quickly, but is also a high-difficulty ingredient to use." "Ow!" "The kitchen is crazy, because people are cooking for a new Toyota Prius." "I don't see tamarind." "I'm doing a egg noodle with a pad thai style sauce." "Behind you." "Hot!" "Hot!" "I hope to beat 8 minutes and 30 seconds." "I don't know if I can." "If I had a wok, I'd be able to crush his time, but I don't." "Behind." "It's very hot!" "I think speed's important in certain contexts." "I've dated people who are fast." "I might be construed as fast." "I'm gonna do a takeoff of a crudo with lemon." "They asked not to do a raw dish, but if I offer it some cool technique, it would recompensate for that and maybe put me in the winner's circle." "Five minutes left." "My food is meant to be quick." "I mean, I worked in a high-volume restaurant." "You tell me I have a certain amount of time to cook it," "I'm gonna get it done." "I'm working on pan roasted clams." "So far, so good until I look up at the clock and realize there's only three minutes left and my clams aren't in the pan." "Three minutes?" "Oh, my." "Jesus." "My noodles are not coming out very well." "At this point, I kind of just lose faith a little bit." "Behind you." "I'm behind." "Down." "Coming down." "Six, five, four, three, two." "Time's up!" "Hands up!" "Utensils down." " We're breaking records." " Yeah." "I'm really, really happy about my dish, especially once I start to look around." "There's definitely a handful of people who didn't finish." "You're getting one clam." "A." "I have nothing." "And it tastes like doo-doo." "Hello, Antonia." " Hello, Padma, Chef." " How's it going?" "So I have a little bit of seared ahi tuna and a fresh tomato salad on top." "Great." "Thanks." "So this is corn-fed foie gras roasted with aromatics and corn and fresh coriander and port." " Very tasty." " Thank you." "This is very classic New England chowder." "Little bit of celery and then poached a couple clams in the cream as well." "I shuck some clams open, steam some other, braised some light zucchini in a tomato broth." "Fish clean, sear it." "The ingredients look very familiar though." "Should lead by example, right?" "So we have a Asian crudo, some of the branzino, jalapeno and a little cilantro." "Nothing's hot though at all, right?" "Everything's just-- correct." "Mm-hmm." "Angelo, Colicchio said don't do a crudo dish and the first things you do is a crudo dish." "I mean, hello?" "I have a little pan seared bass made with fresh tomato relish and a little balsamic, olives and capers." "No sweat." "Cool as a cucumber, huh?" "Exactly." "Exactly." "I actually did a grilled beef tenderloin and seared foie gras." "Paired it together with mushrooms and then cooked down in Brandy." "Carla?" "I did shrimp and mango and tried to extract flavors in chicken stock and mint." "What did you make for us?" "It is an attempt to make pad thai with egg noodles." "Okay." "Um, please try it with caution." " It is safe to eat?" " Yeah." "Terrible." "Sauce was just horrible." "It was embarrassing." "I did a spice-rubbed filet." "Seared it and then brown-butter basted it." "Thanks, Casey." "Here, I actually used what was left of your fish." "A little dashi broth." "Some bok choy with some chili oil." "Figured I'd avoid the whole refrigerator situation." "That was a strong move, I gotta say." "I just have some pan roasted branzino over a black olive and caper stew with some tomatoes, lemon, and olive oil." "Very nice." "Mike Isabella is actually after me and the judges, they seem to really like his dish." "I'm kind of wondering if they're still maybe getting some lingering flavors from my dish and it's kind of carrying into his." "It's clam, little bacon, tomato, a touch of cream." "Half a clam on a half shell?" "Singular clam." "I couldn't get them to pop in time." "So, you know, it happens." "Tom, how do you think they did overall?" "Well, I could say this:" "I'm very sympathetic to what you guys are going through." "Much more so now." "Dishes for the most part were very good." "Some of them, mmm, not so good." "Dale, I do admire that you tried to make noodles in such a short time, but it was kind of a bowl full of fish sauce." "Jamie, yeah, I'm looking over here." "There's more clams in the pot than there were in the bowl." "It was almost a dish." "I've got to say, Angelo, you did exactly what we didn't want you to do, was do something raw." "And the dish had flavor, but I just got to give you a little knock for doing a raw dish." "So who made the best use of their time?" "Mike Isabella, I thought he managed to develop a lot of flavors in a small amount of time." "Nice dish." "Richard, you managed to incorporate a sauce." "The foie gras was nicely cooked." "That was a nice dish." "Marcel, making dashi in eight minutes is a feat." "Had some great flavors, so congratulations on that one." "Thank you, Chef." "Marcel, Richard, Mike, one of you will be going home with this Toyota Prius." "It's tough." "But the dish for me that managed to develop the most amount of flavors in a short time, everything was properly cooked-- and that would be..." "Mike Isabella." "Yes!" "Yes!" "To win a brand-new car for an eight, nine-minute challenge," "I'm just stoked and I'm pumped and I get immunity to add to it." "Congratulations, Mike." "And for that win, you will be taking home your Toyota Prius and gaining immunity in the next elimination challenge." "Work together as one team." "This has got "disaster" written all over it." "I don't trust the other oven." "It won't even fit this one in." "I'm screwed." "For your elimination challenge, you will have to make a lot of food for a lot of people." "Chefs, you're going to Chinatown." "Going to Chinatown is essentially going to China." "You know, everybody there is Chinese." "Everybody speaks Chinese." "You can get really cheap massages." "You'll take over one of the most popular dim sum restaurants in the city." "Grand Harmony." "You'll work as one team to make an assortment of dim sum options to be served continuously to hundreds of locals over a Chinatown lunch rush." "This could be a movie." "Nightmare on Elm Street." "Chinese food for Fabio." "The art of dim sum runs the gamut." "Various pork dishes, dumpling dishes, seafood, pastries." "This is really gonna test your skill." "If you thought 8 minutes and 37 seconds was tough for a quickfire, this one's gonna hurt." "I work at a dim sum house, so after the quickfire" "Up," "I'm glad I have this opportunity to redeem myself over this dish that was terrible." "Dim sum carts are served in the restaurants at all times." "Your job is to keep them filled." "You'll have tonight to menu plan and tomorrow, you'll shop at a Chinatown market before your lunch begins." "Good luck, Chefs." "And, Mike, enjoy the ride back to one Brooklyn Bridge Park in your new Prius." " Let's go, guys." " Congratulations." "Thank you, guys." "Thank you." "That's hot, Mikey." "In the Prius." "Here we go." "Isabella in the Prius." "Jersey Shore." "Fist pumping." ""Hey, can I get a cup of coffee for a quarter at the corner?"" "Hop in." "Let's go for a ride." "This is my first win of the season." "That feels bigger than anything, to finally start winning, because it's a really tough crew and I got a new car." "I'll get a tattoo that says "8-3-7."" "People go, "what's that number?"" "That's how long it took me to win a car." "Why don't we just call out the dishes that we want to do?" "I'm gonna do a crab Chinese sausage wrapped in Shanghai cabbage and then a fried oxtail." "I don't have a ton of experience with dim sum." "To me, it's Chinese tapas, you know?" "A cart rolls around." "You pick a few things off of it." "So it's like doing hors d'oeuvres." "The key here is speed." "I'd like to do a scallop thing, just 'cause I haven't done it yet." "No, seriously." "I know you can laugh it up, but I'd like to for this one." "Jamie, didn't you learn anything from season five?" "No more scallops." "I did a crudo of sea scallop." "I serve scallops all year round." "Scallops, scallop, scallops." "This is Top Chef." "Is not "top scallops."" "These scallops are huge." "Mikey, you should either do the front of the house or expedite." "I'll do expedite." "I am a leader, but I really didn't take that role at all in my season." "This season, I feel like I am being a leader and as long as I do that, I'll continue to win and be on top." "Who wants to work the floor?" "Shorty?" "For me, like, going on the floor, it's like I have to entrust in somebody in the kitchen to watch my food and, like, that makes me a little nervous." "We also have to trust the people that are out on the floor to, like, push this food on people." "Two of us have to be on the floor pushing carts and describing dishes." "I will take one for the team." "I'll volunteer, so if we need hands out there, I'll do it." "Carla and I decide that we'll take this challenge on." "Don't you think that you should do two dishes?" "Uh, no." "I'm not gonna have time to do two dishes." "We're gonna need, like, 2,000 pieces of food going out, so some people are doing an extra dish." "You can do salted the peanuts and call it dim sum." "I'm not salting no peanuts and calling it dim sum." "I'm here to win." "Angelo was the opening consulting Chef at Budokan and I know he's quick as hell." "We'll team up and do it together." "Dale and I, this is our forte." "We're willing to take the risk and do an extra dish." "So if you do one and then we'll do one." "And you want to do?" "Chinese long beans." "I'm surprised that Jamie is gonna do two dishes." "The first thing that goes through my mind is, "wow,"" "because she's probably the slowest person in the kitchen." "I think we have our plan, guys." "Let's head upstairs." "The whole concept of work together as one team in a Chinese kitchen, it's just got "disaster" written all over it." "You got ice cubes in there, you little girl?" "You have an umbrella?" "I'm not here to just shoot the with everybody." "I'm here to play and win." "200 gs for me would be the springboard to open my restaurant and take some time off and get married." "Buy my girlfriend a nice ring that she deserves." "But I got to have blinders on right now." "Just focus on the task at hand." "What's going on over here?" "What bra?" "You don't wear bras?" "Oh, my God!" "You got squirted in the face?" "You need a towel?" "Oh, my God!" "We're out of here." "We're out of here." "I'm out of here." "They're rubbing faces with bras." "That single act cleared the room of the guys." "We just "outboyed" the boys." "It was like roaches scattering after the light comes on." "They can talk about fiddling around with their diddlies, but they can't talk about bras and boobs." "Like, whatever." "Please." "Here we go, Carla." "Right here." "Oh, great." "Thank you." "I have a little bit experience in Chinese food." "I was in China for almost a month, so I feel good about today." "Fresh water chestnuts." "This market isn't your, like, whole foods kind of place." "They kind of just look at you at the meat counter like," ""what you want?" And I'm like, "what's dead?"" "Pam?" "Did you try the oil aisle?" "We're in it." "This is the oil aisle." "45 minutes is not a lot of time when no one speaks English." "Speak English?" "Bread?" "Like sandwich bread." "No English." "Can I just read this to you please?" ""The pure Chinese flavor lets you miss your hometown."" "I'm pretty sure the pure Chinese flavor is not letting me miss Santa rosa, California." "Fabio, they have ragu." "Everything is in Chinese." "I notice that there is a tank full of turtle." "When I move to United States," "I bought a little turtle." "She's a princess." "Once or twice a week, I take her for a walk." "I have a little chihuahua leash that I tie around her shell and tie up to the chairs, so she just go back and forth." "Now these guys is cutting turtle to make turtle soup and that's mean." "God." "Ten minutes, guys." "Ten minutes." "Thank you." "Secret ingredient." "Msg." "Where's my other dumpling thing?" "I had four of these." "I don't know." "Antonia and I are working on Chinese long beans together." " So you have-- - there, so I got 200." "Jamie doesn't have the best track record, but when she says the dish, the dish sounds good." "I'm trying to be a team player by doing the dish with her, but I'm really just concentrating on my shrimp toast." "We'll make it work." "We can cut 'em small." "I'm calling it Chinese chicken and waffles." "A little fried chicken feet and the puffed egg kind of waffle." "With you now." "Casey deciding to make chicken feet is ballsy." "It's like cooking gumbo in New Orleans." "Like, good luck." "Who knew chicken feet were not that expensive?" "I am no Chinese Chef, but I know that if given time," "I can make this dish amazing." "We tried to get you a turtle." "I've never worked in a Chinese-style kitchen with the steamers and the wok stations and all of those other things that were in there." "I don't even know where there's towels." "So that part makes me nervous for sure." "Dale, do you have our container?" "I grew up in the traditional Filipino food, so, like, we were always wondering why all the other kids get to go eat cheese fries and I had to go home and eat, like, you know, stewed oxtail in peanut sauce with rice." "So this is my challenge to lose." "Did you turn the other one up?" "Yes, but the other oven" "I don't trust the other oven." "It won't even fit this one in it." " Yes, it will." " Trust me." "All right." "In normal kitchen, I would braise in an oven about 375 till they're juicy and tender and then grill them." "First problem:" "There is no grill." "Second problem:" "The oven doesn't go above 300 degrees." "So I'm screwed." "I have 250 people staring at me." "All look very angry." "We need food!" "Nobody knows how to Hustle all of a sudden?" "There's people up there ready to walk out." "We are going down like a sinking ship." "Yo, guys, what's going on?" "We need second plate." "We only have 14 plates." "We have to make 180 dim sum portions and it's not a lot of time, so a couple people are doing 2 dish." "It's crazy." "If you committed to two, you do two." "Dim sum's just an array of a lot of small little dishes, so that takes a lot of time." "Concentrate on the other dish." "The dumplings are not working out the way that I want them to." "Don't really love the flavor of them." "I don't like the texture of the dumpling." "It's okay." "I'm not seeing a lot of work done on Antonia and Jamie's beans." "Let's talk about the second dish." "I have no time." "Watch your feet." "Cooler coming through, guys." "They smell too." "Chicken feet come with nails on them." "Having fun with those toenails?" "So fun." "That's four nails per foot and I have a lot of feet to trim up." "I decided not to paint them." "I have a personal interest in the art of butchery." "Butchering.Not to paint them." "I want to be the baddest-ass female butcher out there and I really hope to impress the judges with my chicken feet." "47 minutes." "I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight." "My dish, it's a summer roll, which is actually a vietnamese dish and I know that's going to take a lot of time." "I don't know why I'm choosing something that's so fiddly." "It's so hot in here." "I'm calling this a lunch dessert and the biggest difficulty for me is really just heat and getting my dessert cold as possible, because the kitchen just gets hotter and hotter." "So I'm kind of wondering now, am I treading the line on a quick ticket back home?" "Hey, Dale, if your sticky rice is done, just go finish that and we'll have to bang out the har gow last, man." "As a young boy, my dad and I, we would cook all day Saturday." "My job was to sort through every single granule of rice and pick out all the bad ones." "And I'll tell you, if there was a black one in there, my ass was grass." "Before I went to Singapore, he was, like, telling everybody," ""oh, my son's on tv."" "And, like, I'd never seen my father proud of me." "It was the first time in my life, so that meant a lot to me." " 16 minutes!" " I know!" "We need to be upstairs and ready in 15 minutes." "Yeah, come on in." "Come on, Casey." "I need you pushing carts to the judges' table." "I am making sure that my station is completely set up because I'm going to be pushing the carts on the floor upstairs and Tony is gonna have to pick my dish up in the kitchen." "Okay." "So they get the strip and then the foot, a little cilantro on top." "You have six minutes." "Can you knock out, like, 12, so 1 round goes up?" "These are some mean Ribs, guys." "I open my short ribs and there is the first Top Chef miracle happen." "The short ribs are perfect." "I'll be upstairs, guys." "In the dining room, as I peek out of my kitchen," "I have 250 people staring at me." "They all grew up eating dim sum." "Everyone's behind at this point and it's not looking pretty." "Let's get moving, everyone." "Full dining room." "First dishes are ready!" "Let's roll!" "Time's running out on our prep time." "We got to get ready for service, so all the food gets cooked downstairs and then Tiffany is loading up the dumb waiter to bring the carts upstairs." "This is judges right now, man." "I'm gonna be the expeditor." "Carla and Casey are gonna be working the floor and hopefully things go right." "I'm looking so forward for this." "Coming from Hong Kong myself, eating dim sum is very traditional." "Here we go." " Hello." " Hi, Chefs." "I'd like to introduce you to our guest judge Susur Lee," "Chef and owner of Zentan, Shang," "Chinois, and Lee restaurants." " How are you?" " How are you?" "I remember Susur Lee from Top Chef masters being so centered and just so zen-like." "Here you have a Chinese cabbage, cilantro, and sesame salad by Tiffani." "Fabio has done a soy, honey-glazed short rib." "And I have done a summer roll with vegetables and a lemongrass dipping sauce." "This is a shrimp and pork spring roll and that is Angelo's dish." "The four with the green on top right there is a boneless chicken wing done by Marcel." "Enjoy." "Let's eat." "Keep it coming." "Send everything you got out." "Just keep pumping." "After you do a batch, then I could do a batch, then you could do a batch." "Anybody got anything we can go?" "Anything?" "We need food!" "I don't understand why I'm getting so little food." "This is what we do every day." "We're Chefs." "We cook." "Come on, guys, I need some food." "Nothing is up here yet." "I loved Angelo's spring roll." "It didn't even need a dipping sauce." "The shrimp meat is perfectly cooked inside." "Come on, guys." "Send me some food." "I think Fabio did a great job on the ribs." " I like the sweetness." " Yeah." "This one, it's Richard Blais'." "It's a pork foot." "You can still taste some sort of alcohol that perhaps didn't burn off." "Maybe it was a Chinese wine, or..." "How's Marcel's boneless chicken wings?" "Well, I like the concept of an off-cut of wing." "Flavor-wise, it's just bland." " Mike!" " What's up?" "I need carts!" "Tiffani f.'S house salad." "I like the vinaigrette." "It changed the taste of dim sum." "I really have a plate of sesame." "That's all I have here." "Well, Carla's summer roll is beautifully wrapped." "I have a feeling after you eat Carla's, you're gonna say the same thing." "It's beautifully wrapped." "All you taste is rice noodles." "I don't see any carts anywhere." "Are they gonna serve everybody?" "They just go straight on the dumb waiter?" " Yes." " The kitchen's chaotic." "And I think the reason is because we're all pretty intricate and delicate about plating." "So it doesn't seem like everyone's got all of their portions ready and it's just out of control." "It's just spinning towards the ground." "You want to taste this before it goes to the judges?" "Service is a huge pain in the ass, 'cause Antonia and I are sharing our second dish." "It is tough." "I think it's underseasoned." "I really don't like to be told what to do." "I think it's fine." "I need more sauce." "It needs more glaze." "I think the long beans are delicious." "I think she has pms." "We're in the At this point, so everyone's kind of pulling together helping me drop the food off at the table." "Long beans with Chinese sausage from Jamie and Antonia." "I made cheung fun with xo shrimp." "I also made sweet rice with braised Chinese bacon wrapped in banana leaf." "We have a little bit of spicy pork with preserved vegetables on a steamed bun." "This is a orange dessert I'm serving with fresh water chestnuts and thai basil." "Enjoy." "Every table had at least 15 diners sitting at it and the people are not getting fed." " Please don't bite." " It is mayhem." "It's my understanding that you are doing Casey's dish." " Yeah." " She's gone." "Okay." "I'm concerned and overwhelmed, because I'm doing shrimp toast, I told Casey" "I would do her chicken feet, but I don't even know if we're gonna be able to execute it and get it out." "I'm looking around and no tables have food or very little food." "There's gonna be a revolt." "Dining room is not happy." "Not happy." "Uh, no." " Who's expediting back there?" " Michael." "Obviously it's not going well." "If I was working for them, I'd probably be fired at this point." "What do we think of Dale and Angelo's cheung fun with shrimp?" "Such incredible chili." "I think it's good though." "Flavor's good." "It's spicy." "It is good." "So this is Dale's sticky rice?" "This is almost like a perfect Italian-Chinese al dente." "It's good." " You gonna finish that?" " It's all you, t." "Antonia and Jamie's long beans?" "Yeah, I think they're a little overcooked." "I keep tasting hoisin sauce and it is greasy." "Kind of nasty." " How hot is the fire?" " Pretty hot." "Let's try Tiffany d.'S steamed pork bun." "For me, this is very Chinese taste, which I love." "I think Tiffany did a nice job with the bun." "Great flavor there." "It does taste authentic." "Marcel is up." "Fabio is up." "Susur, what did you think of Tre's dessert?" "It should be much colder and a little more like a jelly." "If this weren't in a cup, it would not have held up." " It's runny." " It's too runny." "Put it on a tray." "I can just take it up." "The problem is not putting it on a tray." "We need people plating." "Okay, now they're starting to go out." "Upstairs, we are not seeing certain dishes come up, including my chicken feet and when it does come up, it does not look great." "I'm gonna go down." "The kitchen is a nightmare." "How are y'all heating the feet up?" "In the fryer, right?" "You're supposed to heat it in the wok." "I don't know if anyone knew." "Antonia was only working on her dish and lost control of my dish." "Part of this challenge was we started the whole thing off about speed." "And so far, they are failing miserably." "This is slow sum." "It is." "Slow sum." "Fire everything." "There's too many hot dishes and their plates are too composed, so it's taking too long for the food to come out." "We're in a ship that's starting to sink." "Is it ready to go?" "I do hear the theme song of the Titanic in the background." "Nobody's worked in a restaurant before?" "Nobody knows how to Hustle all of a sudden?" "Can you raise some hell, Tom?" "I will try." "But I just finished this." "No, I know you finished your stuff." "You send out all your food, but everybody else has food, and we have no food upstairs." "Who's running this kitchen here?" "You gotta get food out faster." "There's people up there who are all gonna walk out of here right now." "I'm dead serious." "You gotta move faster here." "Yes, Chef." "When you see that your daddy has shown up where he's not supposed to be, you know you're in trouble." "They're sending, like, three orders at a time." "I don't get it." "You guys, you got to make 40 orders at a time." "Get it going." "Get food out." "Yeah, it's embarrassing up there." "It's Embarrassing." "Are we stopping?" "Are we done?" "No, keep sending food out." "Well then why is everyone standing around having a conversation?" "I'm trying to get stuff done and I don't think any of us have actually worked in this pump-it-out, dim sum sort of place." "I think Dale probably would have been the best person to lead us." "Service is slow and Dale was cleaning off his shoes." "It's Bull." "Service is a total Show." "But I'm sending out banana leaves by the 12 or 14, 15." "I don't know what the Going on basically." "Everyone's hating on people, but if no one put enough food, say who didn't do it and say it to their face." "But they won't, because they're too chicken ." "Is it just me or is everybody Walking around with, like, no urgency whatsoever?" "I think they're working on one-- like, three things at a time." "Four things at a time." "It's like, just jam it out." "Oh, my God." "They're all trying to take the food from their carts." "All right." "Casey's dish this evening is a play off of chicken and waffles." "The chicken feet is braised and has a scallion pancake." "Antonia has prepared shrimp toast with pickled scallions and mushrooms." "And I have some pork and prawn dumplings with a little spicy of soy sauce." "And then this is Jamie's." "It's scallop dumplings." "Thank you." "What do you think of Mike Isabella's dumpling in hot chili sauce?" "I like the chili part, but the salt of the soy is too strong." "We need food." "We need food." "Antonia's shrimp toast is nice." "I like it." "It's crisp." "I taste that shrimp-based flavor, which I really like." "Chicken and waffle foot?" "Making chicken feet, you have to put it in really hot oil to puff up the muscles and also the fat." "But this one hasn't been really deep fried." "You know what's interesting?" "As hungry as those people are, that chicken foot is still left untouched." "You guys don't have a cart?" "Jamie's scallop dumpling." "There's too much wrapper portion to the filling." "Just doesn't work for me." "If you had more scallop, that would balance it." "Yes." "My dumplings are disgusting." "They came out awful." "Here you go." "At the end of service, we finally started to pick up a groove, but it's too late." "Well, that was a very interesting meal." "There was definitely some lowlights other than the service." "Let's go back to the judges' table and figure it all out." "I would be surprised if there was a winner." "All right, guys, let's get out of here." "Let's get your knives." "The end of service, I feel like the wind's sort of been knocked out of us and I think all of us overall feel pretty ." "Judges' table is not gonna be pretty." "We're definitely gonna get yelled at." " I was like, "where's Antonia?"" " I was the only one." "It was like everyone started to look out for themselves." "These people came in for a dim sum and we haven't fed them." "There's nothing more humiliating to Chefs than leaving a room full of people that are still hungry." "I was sending out 25." " Maybe you were." " Right." "That was as chaotic as I've seen on Top Chef." "This was worse than my restaurant wars." "Everyone's upset about service." "Everyone's upset about teamwork." "Everyone's upset about everything." "Everyone sucked and everything sucked." "Show." "Everyone started to look out for themselves to a certain degree, and there was no urgency in that kitchen down there." "I was embarrassed." "Like-- there was, like, a minute where I was like," ""who's doing Casey's?" "What's going on?" "Where is Antonia?"" "Nobody else was like, "I'll do Casey's dish."" "And I was the only one who was like," ""I'll be responsible for your dish."" "We'd like to see Casey, Antonia," "Carla, Jamie, and Tre." "Thank you." "The five of you are here because the whole point of this challenge was speed, but from where we were standing, it was pretty dismal." "Was there a plan going in?" "Um, there was a plan going in." "What's that plan?" "It was to have Mike Isabella down there with us pretty much making sure that we were-- when I walked down there, I just-- it didn't make sense when I saw the way the kitchen was functioning." "Aside from the fact that none of you got enough food out there, you had our least favorite dishes of the evening." "Jamie, you're not surprised?" "I mean, you're shaking your head." "I mean, I'm not surprised with one of my dishes." "Which one?" "The dumplings." "The scallop dumplings." "What'd you think was wrong with it?" "I didn't like the wrapper and I've never made them before and I just didn't like the way that they were steaming." "The dumpling wrappers, what you bought is meant to be boiled with water, so it absorb more water, get more tender." "But you steam it, so it get very dry." "You know, Jamie also contributed the Chinese long bean dish." "There was a lot of oil." "You know, the goal was not to make bad Chinese-American take-out." "Antonia, what role did you play in this dish?" "I prepped most of it." " So you didn't cook at all?" " I was cooking." " Yeah, she was." " She was?" "I thought the beans were overcooked and greasy and the flavor wasn't developed." "Antonia, you also made the shrimp toast." "I thought it was good." "It had a nice flavor." "Thank you." "I'm a little conflicted about, you know, your whole performance, because you did something so great and then something so disappointing." "Casey?" "Honestly, I just wanted to do something that was a little different." "I know there was a lot of chicken feet left on the tables today." "I don't think it was cooked enough, for sure." "If I have a few hours in front of a television," "I probably can eat one." "Talk to us about the pancake." "It was a pancake with egg and rice flour." "It was supposed to be light and playful and--what?" "Light?" "Pancake was like lead." "I mean, that's why I was-- it was like lead?" "It was, like, really heavy." "Who made your dish when you had to be upstairs?" "Oh, mostly Antonia." "What did you think of it?" "I don't think I want to even answer the question." "I don't know." "I'm gonna cry." "Why are you gonna cry, Antonia?" "It's just so much." "Like" "I just wish we had a little bit more time to help each other." "Tre?" "It was really hot in the kitchen, so as I plated those orange dessert, they weren't standing up well to the heat." "It was very liquidy." "As a dessert, it didn't work." "The idea was really wonderful." "I just wish that it had delivered on its promise a little more." "Carla?" "I oversoaked the rice noodles, so I think by the time I wrapped them and they sat, they were a little mealy." "You got too caught up in making them dainty and it looked literally like there was two pieces of basil and then just a mouthful of noodles that were bland." "You were just cooking with your eyes instead of cooking with your stomach." "Oh!" "We'll need to talk about all this." "I also need you to send back some of your colleagues." "They want to see Tiffany d.," "Angelo, Dale, and Fabio." "Congratulations." "You four had our favorite dishes at lunch today." "Honestly, I was thinking that you guys would have kicked me out without even having me go through judges' table today, but-- we thought about it." "You have a pretty good imagination of Chinese culture." "You haven't really any experience about Chinese cooking?" " Zero." " I think that is amazing." "Tiffany, your pork bun." "Your dish was great, Tiffany." "Thank you." "It had a lot of flavor and brightness." "Sort of like a little savory marshmallow, I like to think." "Wow." "Thank you." "Dale." "I really, really liked the rice." "I'm a sucker for sticky rice." "I like when you steam it." "The oil from the banana leaf gives it a very kind of fresh flavor." "Thank you very much." "Angelo." "I loved your spring rolls." "You kept the authenticity of the dish, but you also gave it textural integrity." "It was really savory." "I had more than my share." "Thank you." "Susur, tell us who won this elimination challenge." "The winner of that dish was very modern." "At the same time, with just a few ingredients, executed very well." "And the winner is..." "Chef Dale." "Congratulations." "Thank you very much." "Thank you, Chef." "Thank you." "Congratulations, Dale." "It felt like I robbed the bank on that one." "We were all morons." "Service sucked." "It was terrible, but all four judges decided that I was a winner for this." "I'm not giving it back." "We need to figure out who's going home." "You guys can return to the stew room." "Thank you." "Thank you." " Thank you." " Thank you." "Dale got the challenge." "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Tonight's decision is particularly hard, because there were a lot of Chefs who had a bad day today in the kitchen." "Jamie's scallop dumpling I wasn't crazy about." "It fell apart on flavor." "It wasn't my favorite." "You know, Jamie also contributed to the Chinese long bean dish." "In fact, she was the one who cooked it." "It was as if those long beans had been sitting in a Chinese take-out box for three hours." "I do applaud Jamie for doing more than one dish." "But those beans just weren't Jamie." "They were Antonia's, but Antonia did give us a really nice shrimp toast." "Yeah." "The shrimp toast was-- it just brought me right back to Hong Kong." "It's really too bad that Antonia had a part to play in those long beans, because if she had just done that shrimp toast, she could have been on the top." "Tre's half-soup, half-dessert." " Tangerine nightmare." " Tangerine nightmare." "From far away, you wanted to eat it, but when it get in a little closer, you might have to think twice." "The custard needed to set." "It didn't set." "It was just very bland." "It was almost like hospital food." "You know, I thought Casey's chicken feet was a terrible dish." "I didn't like that dish at all." "I felt that that was really a disaster." "I honestly do better when I think about a dish a little bit longer." "Carla's summer roll." "Competition is about great taste." "It's not just for the look." "Everything in that roll was bland." "Why bother?" "It's not even worth the calories." "I think we have a decision." "Yes." "Okay." "Let's get them out here." "So, Chefs, your challenge today was go to Chinatown and to take over the Grand Harmony restaurant and make us dim sum." "Unfortunately, there was very little harmony in the kitchen and your dishes were our least favorite." "Antonia, you played a role in one our least favorite dishes, the long bean dish." "The beans were overcooked and very greasy." "It just wasn't very good." "Jamie, you executed that dish poorly." "You cooked it and you overcooked the green beans." "Plus you gave us a scallop dish that was poorly made." "Casey, we applaud your audacity making the dish, but it wasn't cooked enough and therefore inedible." "Tre, you gave us a dessert that was bland." "It wasn't properly made." "It was insipid and lacked any personality at all." "And, Carla, it's very difficult for a good sauce to rescue the blandness of your summer rolls." "Unfortunately someone will go home tonight." "Casey..." "Please pack your knives and go." "I'm shocked." "Oh, my goodness." "I know." "So nice to meet you, Chef." "Nice to meet you too." "I'll see you guys." "I'm going home." " Casey?" " No." "It's all right." "It's all right." "It really sucks." "I expected to hear Jamie's name." "Everyone else did too, including herself." "Gonna miss this place." "I left my dish in Antonia's hands." "Ma'am." "I took a big risk, and it doesn't always pay off." "Mwah!" "I'm shocked that it's Casey." "I am." "'Cause she did not get the brunt of it at the judges' table." "I did." "I do not think it was my time to go, but I was eliminated and..." "That's the way it is." "Next on Top Chef:" "All-Stars..." " Meet us in Montauk!" " Montauk!" "This is gonna be a double elimination." "I don't care if I have to, like, jump in the ocean and pull a fish out." "I'm gonna catch a fish." "♪ Here, fishy fishy fishy fishy ♪" "Holy !" "Mine is a fighter like his mama!" "Fabio, I need you to get those peppers and that corn done, right?" "Push, push, push, push, huh?" "Dude, shut up." "So what the ?" "You won the Challenge." "Whatever." "I'm gonna beat your Ass if you don't shut the Up right now." "Rah!" "For more about the recipes seen tonight,"