Did Esther Choi Beat Bobby Flay?

Yes, Esther Choi beat Bobby Flay in season 32, episode 6. Esther and Leah competed against Flay in the final round.

Choi is a chef and entrepreneur. She is the owner/chef of Mokbar Brooklyn and partners with Ms. Yoo.

In the first round, she competes with Leah Cohen and later with Eric Adjepong in 2nd round.

Since Faly had won the last five episodes, he offered to go solo.

Finally, the entrepreneur won the Holiday Throwdown episode, as she won over the judge's heart with her Chuseok.

Besides this, Esther Choi appeared in various Food Network shows like Chopped, Money Hungry, and Throwdown with Michael Symon.

The Mokbar owner was the finalist and the challenger chef in the Netflix cooking series Iron Chef: Quest for the Iron Legend season one.

Chairman Mark Dacascos asked the chef to prepare the dish that changed their life. Choi made five sea dishes, scored 82 points, and lost by only one point.

In the episode Holiday Throwdown - The World, they added three cooks and a chef.

First Round

In the first round, the American chef Geoffrey Zakarian appeared as the guest host. The chef joined the show tossing some fake snowballs and announced its an international holiday dish.

Meanwhile, Korean chef Esther Choi emerged as the contestant alongside the competitor Leah Cohen.

Choi expressed she and Cohen are good friends and fierce female Asian cooks.

When Bobby asked them about their desire, the entrepreneur said no fruits.

The contestant has only 20 minutes to make their dish, including figs.

Esther made roasted fig crostini with kimchi goat cheese spread and fresh fig salad.

Cohen prepared seared duck breast with fig demi sauce with a watercress fig salad.

The judge tried both their dishes and loved the presentation of Leah. 

However, Choi moved on to round two, while Cohen to the judging table.

Second Round

In Round Two, Esther and Eric Adjepong competed with each other.

They had 20 minutes to make pickled herring, the secret ingredient.

Eric prepared Pickled herring Gyoza with a ponzu sauce and toasted sesame salad, whereas Esther picked pickled herring broth and dumpling with shrimp. She even made a smart move by using premade wrappers.

Both chefs made four plates where Lean and Zakarian judged their dishes.

Geoffrey loved the presentation of Eric, while Leah loved salmon roe in the addition part.

Both judges believed Choi's sauce was a little fishy, but she won the round.

Third-Round Holiday Wars Finale

In the final round, Bobby gave Esther an advantage.

He announced he would cook alone while the entrepreneur could have any of three chefs or all of them help her.

Esther chose Leah as they cook in similar styles and selected the Korean holiday traditional feast Chuseok.

Bobby interpreted Chuseok, and he pulled it off well. In the end, Esther and Leah beat him in the Holiday Throwdown episode.

More than 150 chefs have defeated Bobby Flay. Here is the list of winners from season 1 to season 32.

Season 1

• Sarah Grueneberg
• Brian Tsao

Season 2

• Neal Fraser
• Rina Younan
• Tim Wiechmann
• Palak Patel

Season 3

• Kristine Kittrell
• John Miele
• Victor Albisu

Season 4

• Taichi Kitamura
• Kelvin Fernandez
• Johnny Zone
• Thoa Nguyen

Season 5

• Sam Marvin
• Kenny Johnson
• Jeanie Roland
• Michael Walters

Season 6

• Bruce Kalman
• Ric Orlando
• Ariane Duarte

Season 7

• Tim Freeman
• Mohan Ismail
• Brian Archibald

Season 8

• Alex Guarnaschelli
• Kevin Ashade
• Aaron Rivera
• Kenny Gilbert
• George Rodrigues

Season 9

• Anne Burrell
• Brother Luck
• Robbie Jester
• Kevin Naderi
• Jenny Dorsey

Season 10

• Katherine Clapner
• Vijay Sadhu
• Ed Cotton
• Francois Payard

Season 11

• Todd Erickson
• Sam Gorenstein
• Perry Chung
• Vuong Loc

Season 12

• Alex Reznik
• Rene Rodriguez
• Steven Oakley
• Alex Guarnaschelli
• Damaris Phillips
• Marcus Samuelsson
• Amanda Freitag

Season 13

• Dana Cree
• Ken Vedrinski
• Stephen Kalt
• Stephen Jones
• Lauren Brown

Season 14

• Lionel Haeberle
• Tony Priolo
• Darren Sayphraraj
• Simone Falco
• Jeremy Fogg
• Kiran Patnam
• Amanda Rockman

Season 15

• Aarthi Sampath
• Mike Andrzejewski
• Cory Morris

Season 16

• Thomas Boemer
• Robert Sisca
• Viet Pham
• Manish Tyagi
• Shota Nakajima
• Fabio Viviani '

Season 17

• Asif Syed
• Adam Greenberg
• Ivana Raca
• Robert Aikens
• Olivier Palazzo

Season 18 

• Steve Redzikowski
• Chris Henry
• Thiago Silva
• Joey Ward

Season 19

• Sam Carroll
• Fernando Ruiz
• Michael Psilakis
• Ashley Gaboriault
• Chad Clevenger

Season 20

• Aaron Cuschieri
• Pablo Zitzmann
• Brian Lewis
• Zac Young
• Matt Pace
• Paul Fehribach

Season 21

• Ian Winslade
• Jay Ducote
• Nick Williams

Season 22

• Rosana Rivera
• Shelby Sieg
• Carrie Baird
• Ian Winslade

Season 23

• Michele Ragussis
• Paddy Rawal
• Elizabeth Binder
• Sam Diminich
• Daniele Uditi
• Charlie Loomis

Season 24

• Buddy Valastro
• Lisa Storch
• Sylvain Delpique
• Kathleen McDaniel
• Dale Talde
• Patrick Schaeffer
• Penny Barend
• Michael Merida

Season 25

• Reza Setayesh
• José DeJesus
• Rémi Granger
• Max Robbins
• Anthony Endy

Season 26

• Saransh Oberoi
• Jesse Wykle
• Michael Buttacavoli
• Katie Renda
• Jenny Behm-Lazzarini
• Yehuda Sichel

Season 27

• Jay Reifel
• Andrew Bent
• David Benstock
• Sieger Bayer
• Chris Coleman

Season 28

• Scott Calhoun
• Lasheeda Perry
• Tova Du Plessis
• Ayaka Guido
• Nicole Gomes
• Larry Delgado

Season 29

• Chad Rosenthal
• Britt Rescigno
• Michael O'Halloran
• James Briscione
• Jon Keeley
• Tom Berry
• DeeDee Niyomkul
• Tamearra Dyson
• Mia Castro

Season 30

• Matt Migliore
• Roosevelt Caesar
• Christian Gill
• Surbhi Sahni
• Amanda Salas
• Francis Legge
• Aerin Zavory
• David Sandusky

Season 31

• Lambert Givens

Season 32

• Edwin Bayone
• Angelo Competiello
• Adrien Blech
• Jocelyn Law-Yone