Day 1

Day1 kicked off with general orientation. Mostly boring.

Only 4 of the 19 people in the Baking course were men ! In contrast, my culinary class had 5 women and 8 men. 

We are going to lunch in every day! Prepared by the culinary students themselves (mostly by people in the diploma course, but we'll have one chance later in the course I think). The chicken parmagiana was basic but nicely seasoned albeit dry. Had a half walnut muffin (ok) and a small slice of mango cake (good).

For the programme itself, of the 25 days, 

First 2 weeks.

- 1 for orientation.

- 5 for food safety, equipment familiarization, industry standard operating procedures.

-  2 for basic mise en place (including knife skills).

- Another 2 for subjects like plating/presentation, portion control, receiving etc.

last 3 weeks

- 12 days of cooking with techniques from Thai, Western, Indian, Chinese, Malay and Singapore.

- 1 day to cook lunch for the school's students.

- 2 days of assessments / tests.