National pride was the name of the game for the fifth week of the Digicel/Jamaica Observer Instagram #FAinstafare competition. For the challenge, tagged ‘Taste of Jamaica’, entrants were called on to submit photos of Jamaican fare, and entries ran the gamut from such beloved staples as stewed peas, jerk chicken, ackee and salt fish, and fried fish and festival.

The three-man judging team of photographer Peter Ferguson; watercolour artist and advertising guru Patrick Waldemar; and Jamaica Observer photographer Michael Gordon had their work cut out for them at the judges’ session Monday afternoon at F&B downtown Café as they shortlisted the hundred-plus entries on an iPad, before settling on a winner.

The week’s top three entries were a chafer pan of turbit fishes ready to be roasted; drum pan jerk chicken on the grill; and a piping-hot Sunday dinner plate of rice and peas, oven roasted chicken, veggies and fried plantain.

The image taken by Kimberly Hall on her iPhone 3G — showing three turbits, Scotch bonnet peppers and escallion to make stuffed oven-roasted dish — was deemed the best based on the style, colour and the subject manner.

“The photo was just right and the image grabs you” was judge Peter Ferguson’s assessment of Hall’s submission.

Weekly winners of the #FAinstafare competition receive two Food Awards tickets and qualify for the grand prize of a Digicel Samsung Galaxy S6 and the official Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards #FAinstafare plaque.

With the Food Awards only six days away, get those smartphones in hand and start snapping for the week’s final theme ‘4G Cuisine’.

(PHOTOS: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)