Brickhouse meets Lord’s Kitchen Taco sale
Today was the final lesson for Lord’s kitchen, before the Y11’s left for exam leave and we finished in style, teaming up with BrickHouse restaurant to do a charity taco sale. The pupils cooked all the tacos and assembled them all in a production line with a team of runners and servers making it well oiled machine. We sold over 120 sets of chicken pork taco’s for $50 each and raised $2500 for the Masarang charity. It was a great experience for the pupils and gave them a real insight into the pace in a kitchen during service and need to produce consistent quality products. All the pupils thoroughly enjoyed the experience and to top it off they each given $1000 meal voucher for their hard work. Many thanks to everyone at BrickHouse and Maximal Concepts for providing this experience that really aided their learning.
Lord’s Kitchen visits Brickhouse
In today’s lesson we visited Brickhouse Mexican restaurant to learn how to make taco’s and Guacamole in preparation for next weeks charity taco sale.
Pupils were also give a talk about setting up and working in the restaurant trade by Tony Magnetic who works across many of the Maximal concepts restaurants.
A really fun and interesting trip and the pupils are really excited about the taco sale next Wed lunchtime.
There is even a video montage of the event
Lord’s Kitchen/Blue – Charity Butcher Burger Sale (week 10)
In this week’s lesson Blue butchers chefs came into school to help sell purgers for the Masarang Charity. Pupils had been trained how to prepare the fillings and cook the burgers last week, so his week it was all about team work and mass production. One all the salad prep was done and the burger buns were toasted, the class was split into two, a team for the playground and team in the classroom. The classroom team had a to cook 2/3’s of the buns and had a really good production line going on, whilst the playground team was cooking the rest on the outdoor grill and selling all the burgers.
It was a very hectic hour of selling, where 172 burgers were sold, raising $6500 for the the charity and even though there wwere a couple of foreseen hiccups, everyone really pulled together to ensure this was a major success and gave pupils a really valuable experience into the catering industry.
Pupils were then really happy to recieve a gift bag from the Blue butcher (Maximal Concepts), with a T-shirt, certificate and meal voucher- So once again thank-you very much to the whole team involved.
ESF Masterchef Final
On the 13th June the 2nd ESF Masterchef Final took place, at King George V school.
Pupils were give the brief of Iconic Hong Kong and asked to use their creative flare to interpret this how they wanted and they would have one and half hours to make their dish.
Representing island school for the Juniors ( working in pairs) was Kaela- Mei Townson (9W) and Melodie Karbassian (9W). They decided to show the history of Hong Kong on plate, with the British influence of fish cakes and chips, Japanese Teriyaki Salmon skewers and Crab spring rolls. these were represented don a long plate, with the dishes growing in height to represent that growth of the sky scrappers along Victoria Harbor.
jason Lim (10R) was Island school’s competitor for the Seniors and he decided to make a East/West Fusion of Chinese Spiced Rack of Lamb, with hairy melon stuffed with “lucky mushrooms,” served with hoe made Pasta with mint pesto. he certainly gave himself a challenge but he completed with time to spare.
The judging was very close, with the Island school competitors coming runner up to Sha Tin College in both sections.
Well done to to everyone who took parts, the standard of food was amazing and could have graced the best restaurants in Hong Kong
Link to further photo – http://www.esf.edu.hk/photos-masterchef2014
