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February 18, 2025

In Chicago, We Recreated General Tso's Chicken with Our Equipment, Amazing the Audience...

On May 18th, the annual National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show, held at the McCormick Place in Chicago, kicked off in grand style. UTCOOK, bringing its overseas product, the G3 North American version (Chef G3 Lite), made a stunning debut at the NRA Show. This was UTCOOK's first overseas exhibition and the beginning of its official venture overseas.

As one of the largest and most comprehensive trade expositions for restaurant and hotel supplies globally, hosted by the National Restaurant Association, the NRA Show attracted 67,000 buyers from over 100 countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, and China.

As Chinese culture gradually goes global, a wave of "Chinese cuisine fever" is sweeping overseas. However, issues such as a shortage of Chinese chefs, high hiring costs, long training periods, and difficulty in retaining talent frequently arise along with the rapid expansion of overseas Chinese restaurants. Focusing on promoting standardization in Chinese cuisine, UTCOOK presented a one-stop smart kitchen solution at the exhibition, introducing artificial intelligence to address the shortage of overseas labor and cost issues, allowing more restaurant funds to flow into dish development, and helping restaurants achieve the goals of "increasing efficiency and reducing staffing" while maintaining "authentic taste."

At the exhibition site, the G3 North American version drum-type stir-frying machine, known as a "kitchen hero with high productivity and high standards," captured the attention of global catering professionals and procurement experts. Chefs used the equipment for cooking demonstrations. With just one button press, ingredients such as dried red peppers and chicken tumbled and jumped inside the non-coated iron wok, performing a song of ice and fire in the collision of 12kw of heat.

After a brief conversation, freshly cooked General Tso's Chicken was hotly served, its aroma spreading far and wide, astonishing the audience on site.

As the North American version of UTCOOK's star product, the G3 series, Chef G3 Lite inherits the advantages of the G3 series, such as efficient meal preparation and convenient operation, and undergoes localized adaptations in details such as the seasoning compartment. It integrates a drum-type induction cooker, electronic recipes, and a non-coated nitride iron wok, capable of replicating the taste of stir-frying with a raw iron wok and intense heat by a Chinese chef in a 1:1 ratio, producing an unparalleled fragrant and seared flavor that surpasses similar products on the market.

G3 North American Version

Delicious food knows no borders, and culinary delights are shared by all. This trip to Chicago is not only a bold attempt for UTCOOK's smart cooking equipment to venture overseas but also a great opportunity for UTCOOK to spread Chinese cuisine culture abroad. "Bringing authentic Chinese cuisine around the world" has always been UTCOOK's original intention. UTCOOK will stay true to its original aspiration, constantly refining and innovating, striving for uniqueness and perfection, promoting "quality Chinese cuisine" overseas, and leading Chinese cuisine to continue to set sail!