Third time is not always a charm, as I found out in class yesterday. The recipe for stir-fried chicken and shrimp in bird’s nest is easy enough, and I figured no problems, I’m going to finish early. It was not to be so, however, because something can be easy to describe but not so easy [...]
Curry beef in flaky pastry, and almond cookies. Who’d have thought just those two items would take just over 5 hours to prepare? Admittedly, someone with more experience would probably do it all in about an hour. For us novices, though, the day’s two items which initially seemed really simple turned out to be far [...]
The latest dim sum class was yet another seemingly typical class with Chef Chim – start early, end late, and learn a whole lotta stuff! We learned to make: spring rolls stuffed green peppers stuffed eggplant wu gok (taro dumplings) crispy shrimp balls (which, if you jam a crab claw into them become the standard banquet [...]
Today’s class was unlike any other I’ve had. Tonight was “banquet night” and we as a class put together a banquet for ourselves. It was, at once, a practical test based on what we’ve learned before and a brief taste of what it might be like in a professional kitchen. Chef demo’d a few items [...]
So it wasn’t a busy-up-to-our-gills day as Chef Chin had suggested it would be, but it was still an educational day today. We covered 3 dishes, two of which are fancier fare and one of which is simple as all heck but looks and tastes very nice. We covered: Steamed chicken w ham + mushrooms, [...]
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