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Week 1 Lord’s Kitchen (Omelette Challenge) – Chefs of the Week Karen, Renee, Jennifer and Yanisha

Week 1 of Lord’s Kitchen is the Omelette Challenge, with students pretending they were at job interview to be a commis chef and this is a test of the their working practices and organisation, whilst demonstrating the hygiene and safety rules of the kitchen. Chefs of the Week were Karen, Renee, Jennifer and Yanisha, who made the best presented omelette and worked the most efficiently.

IS ESF Chef 2019 1st round – Mystery box challenge

It is that tome of year again, where the ERSF Chef starts up at Island school. the Senior section saw the students given a mystery box of chicken and some vegetables and then they could choose from a selection of carbohydrate ingredients and they had acces the herbs and spice and dry store basics. Once they had chosen their ingredient they had 10mins to plan and then 1 hour cooking time, before it was judging time. Ms Leung and Mr Woods judged along side some Y13 students and had the very envious job of deciding who goes through t the enxt round. There was a clear winner, with Charlotte Wong from 12W almost getting full marks form all the judges, for her risotto dish and it was close between the next 5 competitors, making the next round very interesting on 1st March Well done to all and thanks to the judges Here arte the top 6 goin g through to the next round 1. W Charlotte Wong 2. N Wai Lam Yau 3. F Angelina Wong 4. N Victoria van de Pol 5. R Jazmin Sadler 6. E Priya Brown  

BTEC Starters, judged by Hyatt Chef and Manager

Today the heat was on in the kitchen for the Y12 BTEC hospitality students. The students are in 4 teams and each have designed their own Asian themed restaurant. Today they were making their starters, one of which was meat based, one, seafood and one vegetarian. The aim is to decide which dishes make it onto the final menu for their charity pop up fine dining restuarnat in April, so we invited the head chef and manager of the Hyatt in Sha tin to come and judge alongside Mr Wilkinson and Mr Pawlyn who also teach the hospitality and business BTEC classes. The standrd of food was very high and studenst plating up some lovely dishes making it very hard to decide, but eventually we decide that going through o the final menu, are the following dishes that guest wll have to coose from. Kimchi Pancakes, Mulligatawny soup Thai Shrimp cakes California sushi rolls Many thanks to Mr Wilson Lee and Mr Hongman Cheung, from the Hyatt, for giving up their time to come in and judge the studenst cooking and give them great feedback

Wraps by Lord’s Kitchen

Well done to all the students in the Lord’s kitchen elements who finished of the course in style, by opening up their Pop up[ restaurant yesterday, Wraps by Lord’s Kitchen. This gave students an insight into all the considerations needed to think about when opening a food business. After a big brainstorm, they decided to go with Mexican wraps as their theme and split into three teams to make, Chicken Fajita.s Beef Burritos and Vegetarian Tacos. They sold around 75 serving of the food in the 20 minute window that the restauarant was open and they left many customer asking when they were going to do it again.  

BTEC Community afternoon Tea

A massive congratulations to all the BTEC hospitality and in particular the Y13 students who plan, and managed the entire Afternoon Tea event. The students developed the idea to invite senior citizens from the local community, after some teachers ahd gone on a community walk and met some of the people. the students worked with Raymond Li, the Tai Wai councilor as a client to come up with event proposals and then designed the menu accordingly to ensure theire a good mix of asiain and western flavors. The Y13’s were responsible for the all the sweet products and the Y12 students made all the savourty items.   there were 40 senior citizens and 30 teachers at the event  and the food, service and entertainment were all absolutely amazing. All the senior citizens were so appreciative of the thought and effort that had gone into making them feel welcome and it really helped to make Island school feel more part of the local community. Well done to all involved and thanks to everyone that attended.