It was with baited breaths that the participants took their first timid steps into the grand Super Chef kitchen. As if in a trance, they looked around, taking it all in; it wasn't just the sight of the grandest arena they had ever seen but also the fact they had finally made it till here. Of the thousands who undertook the trail, only the 18 now remained. Glory was no longer a faint whisper of a promise. It was a reverberating cry for war. The games had begun.

The Dhaka audition round of Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef 2016 was different from the regional rounds on other parts of the country. Dhaka is, after all, choking with a mammoth population of over 1 crore.

Although 23 November was a hartal, it did not deter the culinary enthusiasts of Sylhet to come to Pallabi Community Center and attend the regional round of Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef 2016.

Even though it was a Friday, 6 November was not an idle, lazy time for Khulna. The city woke up as the host of two important events.

Excited faces congregated from different parts of the Barisal region. They all gathered on the morning of 4th November at Barisal Club compound to join Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef 2016.

Unlike other days, even at eight on a cloudy winter morning on 3 November, 2015, Ambika Memorial Hall premise at Jhillatuli