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Slap Yo Daddy BBQ is the love child of TLC’s BBQ Pitmasters Head Cook Harry Soo. Preparing a bucket list of wishes to do before kicking the bucket, he started competing in 2008. And the rest, as they say, is history. Slap Yo Daddy BBQ, one of the top-ranked Kansas City BBQ Society teams in America, was chosen among over 5,000 professional teams to appear on TLC’s BBQ Pitmasters Season One in 2010. In the Season Finale, SYD stunned the nation by defeating all the teams in the show including two BBQ World Champions in the winner-take-all Rib Throwdown in Texas.
Awarded California Team of the Year 2010 & 2011; Arizona Team of the Year 2010 and 2011; 2010 Grand Champion in Langley, Canada; 2012 Hawaii State Champion, 2012 British BBQ Champion at Cartmel, UK; 2010 3rd ranked Kansas City BBQ Society (KCBS) team in the nation; 1st KCBS Ranchers Reserve National Brisket Cup 2010; 1st KCBS Ranchers Reserve National Beef Cup 2011; winner of 27 Grand Championships including a history making 1st place in all four meat categories in the 2009 Way Out West BBQ Championship has proven this BBQ team knows their stuff.
He’s received many awards including Reserve Grand Champion in Kansas City in 2009 amid 162 of the best teams in the nation at the Great American BBQ and 75+ first place finishes in various categories and countless 2nd, and 3rd place finishes. Clearly, Slap Yo Daddy BBQ are masters at the grill, so you’ll just have to check Harry out for yourself.
The 10 Best Brisket Rubs
Huffington Post – Items To Grill From Around the U.S.
Playboy.com – Slap Yo Daddy – The 10 Best Spice Rubs You Can Buy
Competition Brisket Rub – Best 5
Slap Yo Daddy wins Best BBQ Blog Name award and in the top 100 BBQ Blogs
2016 Red Raider Cookoff, Lubbock, TX
Celebrity Panel – Norco Brew and Que 2016
Food Network Cutthroat Kitchen 2016; Alton Brown’s After-Show with Judge Simon Majumdar
KTLA Live West Coast BBQ Classic 2016
Star.com 5 Recipes from BBQ Champ Harry Soo
Star.com – Who’s your BBQ Daddy
The Malaysian Insider online news – From Curry Mee to Grill; Penang Boy Conquers American BBQl
Podcast with Fay Khoo from BFM 89.9 FM Malaysia
firstwefeast.com/eat/best-bbq-restaurants-in-america
Examiner.com – Harry Soo Backyard BBQ Contest made cooks, Q-fans and charities the winners; thelosangelesbeat.com
Examiner.com – Harry Soo – 2nd Annual Backyard Contest 2015
NBBQA – Member Spotlight: Harry Soo 2015
Examiner.com article on Long Beach West Coast BBQ Classic contest
The LA Beat article on 4th Annual West Coast BBQ Classic in Long Beach
KTLA Live West Cost BBQ Classic 2015
KTLA Westcoast BBQ Classic flavor showdown
KTLA Westcoast BBQ Classic finger linkin-food
KTLA Watermelon eating contest
Harry’s Mesquite win featured in local newspaper writeup
Smoke House Podcast with Slap yo Daddy BBQ
Meet the Barbecue Pro: Califorina BBQ Pitmaster Harry Soo
Southwest BBQ Academy With Harry Soo Presented by BBQ Island & DCS Grills
Area pitmaster is smokin’ the competition
June issue of ‘Drippings from the Pit’
2012 April 3 interview Greg Rempe on 5 win streak Interview: Interview.mp3
2012 Smoke Signals online magazine interview
2012 March 13 interview Greg Rempe on 4 win streak / Interview.mp3
National BBQ News – Slap Yo Daddy BBQ achieves Way Out West three-peat
Featured on AOL Patch.com website
http://diamondbar.patch.com/articles/local-bbq-guru-smokes-national-competition#video-3939840
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/bbq-pitmasters-slap-yo-daddy.html
BBQ Pitmasters Episode #1 and #8 on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034JIFB0
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003783NQ0
Featured in Calif. Polytechnic Pomona (Cal Poly) Graduate School Alumni newspaper
Featured in Malaysian newspaper
Featured in San Gabriel Valley Tribune newspaper
Interview with the San Gabriel Tribune
Mentioned in Institute of Electrical Engineer (IEEE) Geek Life article
Featured in Wall Street Journal
Featured in LA World Chinese newspaper
TLC Channel BBQ Pitmaster Season One Promo Video
<KCBS Bullsheet>, <National BBQ News p1>, <National BBQ News p2>
Press release after our May 24, 2009 win in Kansas City
Viejas, San Diego, 2008 (we’re 4:35 into the video)
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