Chinese Cuisine Training Institute

I joined the American Women Association tour of the Chinese Cuisine Training Institute last week. CCTI is a government run facility in Pokfulam to train new and experienced chefs in the art of Chinese cuisine. I had a glimpse of the training kitchens devoted to certain regions (Northern Region vs Southern) or certain preparation. I think in the "Southern" kitchen the woks have one handle so they can flip the food whereas the "Northern" kitchen woks have two handles.

We were also fortunate that they were holding the Best of the Best Competition that day. At the time, it was the Dim Sum category. It was fascinating to see the chefs create small wonders, being so meticulous so that each and every dumpling is as beautiful as the next. This could have been an episode out of Food Network.



A trainee was concentrating on making each slice as thin as could be but when the supervising teacher came by, he kinda fumbled. It was nerve wracking to see them cut the vegetables with huge cleavers.
















Chefs in training
















Best of the Best Competition Dim Sum Category
































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