Y9 Cake decorating competition winner – Natalie Choy (9D)
Congratulations to Natalie who won the cake decorating competition, with take on “what summer means to me.” Her “Ooopps I dropped my ice cream” was decided by Mr lord, Ms Chisulo and the other students to be the most creative and professional this year and she wins the hamper of utensils donated by teh PTA and a $500 vouchjer for Blue Butcher donated by maximal Concepts.
ESF Chef of the year – Junior Winners
Alessandro and Yash Year 8 triumphed in the junior section of ESF Chefs’ Competition against all the other ESF secondary schools on Friday 27th May 2016.
Working in a pair, their brief was to make street food classics into fine dining dishes – with 2 hours to make and present a main course and dessert.
Alessandro took charge of the main course, making Arancini Alla Siciliana, risotto balls stuffed with ham and cheese, served with a traditional tomato sauce. He said: “I chose this [dish] because it is traditional Italian street food which I think I can make restaurant level by adding a few small touches and plating it cleanly.
Yash made the dessert, Mango Kulfi with Cardamom Biscuit and Falooda, drawing on his Indian heritage. He said: “I chose to make this dessert because it brings together very traditional dishes and flavours. I am really pleased I can represent my school by making this amazing dish.”
The panel of chef judges all loved their modernised food from their own cultures and were really impressed with the presentation and balance of flavours and textures.
Claudia Lau Year 12 represented Island School in the senior section. She impressed the judges with her dishes of: Potato Galette with Ham, Poached Eggs and Truffle Oil and her dessert of Pandan Pancakes with Peanut-butter.
As well as bringing the trophy back to Island School, they also won a hamper of utensils donated by Masterful Ltd, restaurant vouchers donated by Maximal Concepts and a chef’s jacket donated by Chefworks.
Head of Hospitality and Food Technology Mr Lord said: “Many thanks to all the judges and sponsors and a big congratulations to all the competitors – well done to the boys, who put a lot of time and effort into practicing.”
Panna Cotta presentation challenge – Star bakers: Nelly, Emma and Elena
In this weeks Sweet Indulgence I made panna cotta and a selection of coulis and other item that the students could then be creative with in designing a stylish plate to present their dessert.
The Star bakers had a eye for detail and were all very different. So well done Nelly, Emma and Elena
Sweet Indulgence Cupcake wars – Winner Avantika and Olivia
This week the student were pitted each other in cupcake wars, with the brief to make fruits cupcakes. the class produced amazing cupcakes all uniform and beautifully presented and any would grace the best bakeries in HK. It was really hard to pick a winner but eventually we choose Olivia (now 4 times star baker) was she made her own curd and meringue to decorate the lemon cupcakes and Avanitka for her great flavoured and neatly decorated pina colanda cupcakes
As you can see though they all looked great
IS Masterchef Final
This year’s Master Chef competition at Island school started in January with the first round of Junior and Senior students competing for their House. Junior contestants worked in pairs while seniors worked independently, with each contestant making a dish that they felt would be suitable to be sold in a coffee shop. The top 5 from each category then went through to the semi-finals.
The semi-finals in March saw the juniors creating vegetarian meals (to reduce meat intake). The seniors were asked to design a dish to promote the use of herbs being grown in the school garden.
The judges were made up from a range of teachers and students but they all agreed that the semi-final winners were Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee (Rutherford) in the junior section and Ayesha Shahani (Wilberforce) in the senior section.
The final took place at the Cultural Spring Fair 15th April 2016 and the top three juniors and seniors were tasked to make two different fusion tapas dishes in an hour and a half.
The judges were; Edgar Sanuy, Head Chef from Maximal Concepts,
Mr and Mrs Binge,
Natalie Chan (ex-student studying culinary arts)
Kaela-Mei Townson, who was last year’s winner.
Head of Food and Textiles Technology Chris Binge said; “The standard was very high and the judging was close but there was a unanimous decision on who should win;
Juniors, Yash Anand and Alessandro Lucchani (Wilberforce) with Homemade Curry Ravioli and Aztec Brownies with Mango Shrikhand.
Senior, Claudia Lau (Rutherford) with Tuna Tartare with Red Quinoa and Indian Spiced Churro with Cardamon Syrup.
These three students will now compete in the ESF final on 27th May held Sha Tin College.
Mr Lord; “Many thanks to Maximal Concepts for sponsoring and donating the restaurant voucher prizes for brunch at Fish and Meat, Mercedes Me and Blue Butcher. Also thanks to the PTA and Masterful Ltd for the amazing hampers that they put together as prizes.”
Lords Kitchen (week 10) – Plating challenge Chef of the week Krishna
In this weeks lesson pupils were given a selection of ingredients along with a piece of salmon and some pea puree and were asked to try and design a modern style restaurant standard dish. The results were all very impressive and we would like to get you to vote for your favorite to decide on the chef/s of the week.
Please vote for your favoutire two
IS Masterchef Semi-Finals
Last Friday saw the exciting semi finals of Masterchef at Island School, with the Juniors being challenged to make a Meat-free dish to encourage people to eat less meat and the Seniors a dish to showcase herbs from the school garden, both in 45min time-frame. The judging was as always tough and panel of teachers and students finally came up y\with their winners in each section
In Seniors Ayesha Shahani won with her Tart filled with mint and lavender chocolate Ganache
In Juniors Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee won with their Mushroom Tagliatelle
Also Going Through from Senoirs is Claudia in 2nd place with her Thai Beef Salad
and Hitesh with he Pesto Pasta in a Parmesan Basket
From Juniors in 2nd place, by only 1 pint were Alessandro Lucchini and Yash Anand with their Aubergine parmigiana and Jason Qiu & Jordyn Dubinsky with their Macaroni Cheese pie
Well done to all the other competitors who didn’t quite make it through, the standard as once again really high
IS Masterchef – Juniors Round 1
Well done to Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee from Rutherford who were the first rounf winners of this years Masterchef. they were challenged to make a coffee shop prtoduct in 45mins and managed ro make a red velvet cake and ice-cream.
Well done to all the students involved as it was a very close competition. Also making it through to the next round is:
2nd Place – Pippa Yu and Audrey Lai (R)
3rd – Marie Brendal & Janice Chin. (F)
J4th – Alessandro Lucchini and Yash Anand (W)/Janice Fok & Rachel Zhou (N)
6th – Jason Qiu & Jordyn Dubinsky (D
2016 Robo Soccer Challenge
Megan Man and Ida Tsui competed in the 2016 Robo Challenge Cup at Wan Chai Exhibition Centre on Saturday 12 December. They won their group and then placed fourth over all.
Y13 BTEC Business Winter fare Chocolate stall
Well done to the BTEC Business studies studenst who were set an apprentice style challenge by Mr Lord (AKA Alan Sugar), to runa cake or chocolate stall at the winter fare. The students were in 2 teams and they both collaborated well to make a chocolate mousses and hot chocolate on sticks. Both teams more profit, which was given to the Enlighten epilepsy charity
