Hung Huynh grew up cooking in an a Vietnamese restaurant. This was known to the judges, as such, the judges expected this to be reflected in his cooking. They did not expect him to have a genetic understanding of Asian food. They did not see his “slant eyes” and expect him to whip up some Chinese dishes, which is what you seem to be suggesting they did.

You saw exactly the same thing happening in season 5 episode 11, where Eric Ripert was understood to know French cooking because he was born in France and worked in a French restaurant. They didn’t come across him randomly, see him wearing a beret and carrying a baguette and say “Ohh, la frenchman cook good french food!!!” Of course, you miss this obvious point, because Ripert is white so you can’t make hay out of some supposed racism.

This is my problem with people so focused on “equality” as yourself. You are so focused on racism that you see it everywhere. In your model society, it seems it would have been more sensitive to ignore Hung Huynh’s expertise and strong suite, and instead relegate him to equality with all other chefs, and assume he has nothing interesting or special to offer, because, in your Kafka-esque view of equality, associating asian foods with an asian is racist, even when in fact said asian is an expert in asian food. I think I’ll skip you racial utopia.