DH17 Food Promotion - American Cuisine (6 August 2005)

Phew!!! After what called tension and drastic preparation for about 3 weeks, finally our food promotion has come to an end. I'm glad though as it is over. In the first week of this term, we were given the theme for the food promotion and 26 of us in the kitchen specialization were asked to come up with a menu that goes with the theme - American cuisine. Ken Wee was elected as the 'exec chef' in charged and sadly, he chosen me as his assistant, while in the F&B side, Denise is the person in charge and Terence as assistant.

The kitchen side have to do from coming up with a menu, costing, fiche technique, to cooking and stewarding of course. But i feel that the FnB has much more to do compared to us. They have to set up the restaurant, the cutleries, crockeries, decoration, marketing, logistics, and programs for that day, etc... Phew!

Erm, i would give the performance of the kitchen students yesterday a rating of 7/10. The event was quite succesful as we have full house - 122 pax turned up, and Mr Kwong, our accounts and finance lecturer, surprised us by proposing to his girlfriend during the dinner! Well, about what happened during the proposal i'm not sure cuz i was in the kitchen all the time, didn't get to see what happened though (sigh!). But, i wonder how would it feel like when your boyfriend propose to you in front of so many people. Ok, back to the rating, why 7? Hmm, well the class is quite cooperative in preparing the dishes, (seeing that we have 1 and 1/2 hour break), but it was quite messy throughout the whole day. Some people don't know what to do, and we nearly ran out of food that Chef Bala had to cook a dish of stir fried beef with celery. Hah, and i was scolded by Chef Bala when making the lemon butter sauce... anyway... well, at least there's people doing stewarding, thank God... Everything turn out to be fine... Well, to all DH17 students, well done and thank you!