Chinese Cuisine Training Institute (CCTI)
7/F Pokfulam Training Centre Complex,
145 Pokfulam Road, Pok Fu Lam.
The CCTI is a vocational training center where culinary students,
mostly teenage high-school dropouts, learn a trade in the hospitality
industry. Service is therefore haphazard and uneven, but that is to be
expected from students whose average tenure at the CCTI is no more
than a few months. Food is also cooked by students who have spent no
more than a few months in the school kitchen. It is thus remarkable
that the students were able to deliver a decent Cantonese meal,
complete with double-boiled soup, BBQ meats, and an array of Cantonese
dim sums.
Double-boiled "silkie" chicken (烏雞) with assorted meat soup,
assortment of dim sums (shrimp dumpling, pan-fried vegetarian and bean
curd sheet roll, and steamed minced pork bun with preserved
vegetables), BBQ pork with honey glaze, steamed water melon with whole
conpoy, sauteed beef fillet with wild mushrooms, sauteed string bean
with olive pickles, fried rice, and double-boiled papaya dessert with
snow fungus. Everything came out decently, especially the fried rice,
with each rice pearl nicely separate from the others. The BBQ pork was
slightly chewy and could use more honey glaze, but the meal overall
was a good experience for all.
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