Contest offers culinary trip to Amsterdam
The Okura Prestige Bangkok invites young aspiring chefs to vie for an intensive culinary training programme and an educational trip to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Applications are being accepted until March 31.
Held to celebrate the hotel’s fifth anniversary, the competition is open to third- or fourth-year students at the faculty of tourism, hospitality or cooking school at any accredited university; and also second-year students at a higher vocational cooking school.
Applicants must be Thai nationals between the ages of 18-25. They must possess a minimum GPA of 2.75 and a good command of English. They are also required to produce a three-tofive minute cooking video and post it on their Facebook by April 7.
Those who pass the first round will proceed to an English interview and five successful candidates will sail through the final round where they will get a three-week training with master chef Shigeru Hagiwara at the hotel’s Yamazato restaurant, starting May 22.
At the end of training, they will prepare dishes for a judging panel on June 9. The winner will receive a nine-day educational trip to Hotel Okura Amsterdam worth more than 100,000 baht.
The trip will include round-trip air tickets to Amsterdam, eight nights at Hotel Okura Amsterdam, a luncheon and dinner at Michelin-``starred restaurants, a day trip in Amsterdam and a training course with two Michelin-starred Chef Onno Kokmeijer, who has been awarded the title SVH Meesterchef (master chef ) by the Dutch hospitality organisation — Stichting Vakbekwaamheid Horeca.
Email hr@okurabangkok.com or call 02-687-9073.