{"id":5017,"date":"2019-06-11T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.ift.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2019-06-11T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:03:07","slug":"ift-hosts-macanese-cuisine-cookery-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/ift-hosts-macanese-cuisine-cookery-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"IFT hosts Macanese cuisine cookery contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5017 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-herald-lay-a'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group-990x556.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-a size-herald-lay-a\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group-990x556.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/professional-group-414x232.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5019'>\n\t\t\t\tGroup photo of participants in the 10th Macanese Cooking Competition\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group-990x556.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-a size-herald-lay-a\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group-990x556.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/young-group-414x232.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5018'>\n\t\t\t\tGroup photo of participants in the 7th Young Macanese Cooking Competition \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<span class='pum-trigger  popmake-5021  text-center font-blue' data-do-default=''>\u4e2d\u6587\u6458\u8981 \/ Summary in Chinese<\/span>\n<p>IFT and the Macau Culinary Association recently co-organised 2 cooking competitions focused on Macanese cuisine. The 10th Macanese Cooking Competition and the 7th Young Macanese Cooking Competition were held at the IFT Mong-H\u00e1 Campus on 26 April.<\/p>\n<p>The Macanese Cooking Competition is an annual competition for industry professionals. It aims to promote Macanese cuisine among local chefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Macanese Cooking Competition is targeted at higher education students. It aims to offer participants an opportunity to learn more about the culture and history of Macanese cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Macanese cooking competitions are part of IFT\u2019s efforts to assist in increasing consumer and hospitality industry awareness of this gastronomic tradition. The Institute has met that objective also by offering Macanese cuisine training courses and by hosting cooking demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned a lot about the flavours and culture of Macanese cuisine,\u201d says Chef Yin Chan Hup, from Wynn Macau. He took part in \u2013 and won \u2013 the Macanese Cooking Competition. It was the first time Chef Yin had taken part in a competition focused on Macanese cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>For Chef Becky Than Thi Quynh Giao, the Macanese Cooking Competition was her first culinary competition. She came second.<\/p>\n<p>After working for about 15 years in Vietnam and Cambodia, she moved to Macao around 2 years ago. \u201cJoining the competition made me learn about Macanese food: I tried again and again, until figuring out the right flavours, to create my dish,\u201d Chef Than says.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cMacanese\u201d refers to the city\u2019s Eurasian population: those with ancestral ties to Portugal, Mainland China and\/or to Portugal\u2019s former colonial outposts, such as Goa and Malacca. The Macanese have a distinct social and cultural identity, cuisine and a creole language called Patu\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>Over the centuries, Macanese cuisine blended southern Chinese and Portuguese flavours with exotic new ingredients brought by Portuguese sailors. The result is a mix of influences from Europe, Latin America, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and China.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Macanese cuisine was included in the city\u2019s official intangible cultural heritage list. Also in that year, Macao became a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of gastronomy, with Macanese food \u2013 often dubbed as the \u201cworld\u2019s first fusion gastronomy\u201d \u2013 playing a role in UNESCO\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Macao Government has repeatedly stressed the importance of Macanese cuisine in the city\u2019s unique gastronomic culture, and in the development of a sustainable tourism industry, as Macao works to transform itself into a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning through competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unlike some competitors in the professional category, many of the participants in the Young Macanese Cooking Competition were already familiar with Macanese cuisine. IFT has included Macanese cuisine in the curriculum of its bachelor degree programmes, in order to allow students to learn about the origins, preparation and characteristics of this gastronomy.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this year\u2019s Young Macanese Cooking Competition was Rubie Lao. She is a Year 1 student on the IFT programme leading to a Bachelor of Arts in Culinary Arts Management. According to Rubie, the most challenging part of the competition was to present her own take on \u201cPortuguese Chicken\u201d \u2013 a traditional Macanese dish \u2013 using only traditional ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>The second place in the Young Macanese Cooking Competition went to Year 2 IFT Culinary Arts Management student Robella Lam. She says competing helps students to learn how to manage their time in the kitchen. \u201cWe always want to do better; but it turns out that, in the end, if we want to do too much, this results in us running out of time and the dish becoming too complicated,\u201d she says. \u201cI try to stay simple and to focus on the main ingredient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Year 3 IFT Culinary Arts Management student Abdul Basit Qureshi agrees. \u201cI always plan to do a lot, and finally it is easy to go over time. Time management is always a hard task for me.\u201d Still, he was able to come third in the Young Macanese Cooking Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul \u2013 who came from Pakistan to study culinary arts at IFT \u2013 says taking part in cooking competitions benefits students. \u201cThe judges won\u2019t regard you as a student, so you will need to do your best to perform well,\u201d he says. \u201cThis really pushes us forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mks_separator\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>List of winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mks_tabs horizontal\"><div class=\"mks_tabs_nav\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mks_tab_item\"><div class=\"nav\">10th Macanese Cooking Competition<\/div>\nWinner: Yin Chan Hup \u2013 Wynn Macau<br \/>\nSecond place: Becky Than Thi Quynh Giao \u2013 MGM Macau<br \/>\nThird place: Li Zhongxiang \u2013 MGM Macau<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mks_tab_item\"><div class=\"nav\">7th Young Macanese Cooking Competition<\/div>\nWinner: Rubie Lao \u2013 Year 1, IFT Culinary Arts Management Bachelor Degree Programme<br \/>\nSecond place: Robella Lam &#8211; Year 2, IFT Culinary Arts Management Bachelor Degree Programme<br \/>\nThird place: Abdul Basit Qureshi &#8211; Year 3, IFT\u2019s Bachelor of Arts in Culinary Arts Management<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFT and the Macau Culinary Association recently co-organised 2 cooking competitions focused on Macanese cuisine. 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