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
Its all about the dough!
The sweet indulgence course for the semester of Elements culminated in with enriched bread dough, with students making a selection of doughnuts, cinnamon rolls and churros. I was great to see how the students had developed their skills and creativity over the last few months of this course and they loved this final practical.
No stra bakers this week, because everyone was so good!
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.
Food careers
Great website, if you are interested in a career in the food industry
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Year 10 IGCSE class takes a trip to Pop Vegan, the newest restaurant in town
On Tuesday, the Year 10 IGCSE class took a trip to Pop Vegan, a new restaurant that recently opened on Elgin street in central. The class has been learning about meat and meat alternatives. On the trip, students enjoyed a three-course vegan lunch made completely without meat. On the menu was Vegan Tuna Tartare for a starter, Spaghetti Bolognaise for main course and a delicious Strawberry Cheese Cake for dessert.
After lunch, Miss Joanne Chow (General manager) and Miss Kaylie Mak (Marketing Executive) gave a talk about the vegan way of eating and why their restaurant advocates for this. Miss Mak explained to the students how the restaurant takes usual dishes to makes vegan alternatives, which are more environmentally friendly. She gave an example of the tuna tartare, which they make from konjac but still tastes and looks like real fish.
This was a great experience for the students.
Pop vegan are happy to welcome any members of the Island school community and gave us the QR codes below which provides more information.
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.
If the Choux Fits – Star bakers (Rachael, Sarrah, Prekesh, Emilie, Emisa)
This week in Sweet Indulgence was all about chop. Students had to make a batch of cream puffs using the same recipe and then differentiate by accuracy and presentation techniques. Doris Chan the students teacher made an amazing croque-en-bouche to show how to elevate the product to high class bakery standard
The standard of final results was the best so far form the entire class and Ms Leung found it really difficult to choose her favorite, but went for the students who had put the most detail into the plating. Well done to Rachael, Sarrah, Prekesh, Emilie, Emisa who won the star baker award
Homemade pasta week – Chefs of the week Jasmine, Zekie, Shyan
Homemade pasta week is always one of the favorites in Lord’s kitchen, with a great balance of skill, creativity and collaboration. students had to decide whether to p\make, spaghetti, tagliatelle or ravioli and which of the 5 mother sauces they were going to make to accompany the pasta. Rolling the pasta was a bit of work out and the sauces gave students the potential to elvate their dish to another level. jasmine was awarded chef of the week for working independently and making the best quality pasta, presented to the highest standard and Zekie and Shyan got the accolade for great teamwork and being the only studenst try the more challenging ravioli
Halloween Cupcake wars – Star bakers (Barbie, Halle, Sarrah and Rachael)
Sweet indulgence does Cupcake wars for Halloween and the atmosphere could have been cut with a knife, as students worked on their scary creations. All the students had to make 6 cupcakes that showed skills, creativity and consistency and we even goit Y13 BTEC Hospitality and Business students in to judge. The top three cupcakes and thewir maker werte awarded star baker and this went to;
- Rachael for her eyes ball cupcakes, which showed so many skills learnt in previous weeks and great favour ands texture combo.
- Sarrah for her amazing handmade purple flowers and other decorations
- Barbie and Halle for their Candy corn, inspired cupcakes. Candy corn is American confectionery given out for trick or treaters (so I learnt today)
BTEC work experience catering at at the Alliance event
Well done to Ernest, Kirsten, Kisha and Hitesh, who helped the chef and serving satff at Club Lusatino, in Central yesterday, at the Islnad School Alliance event last night. They really impressed the chefs with their professionalism.
