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Module 10: Cookery
esrt programme
TRAINING FOR
HOMESTAY OPERATION
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Menu planning
Cooking Class: Breakfast
Cooking Class: Lunch and Dinner
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Topic 5
Topic 6
The homestay culinary experience
Food knowledge
Good personal and food hygiene
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Topic 2
Topic 3
Module introduction
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
Module introduction
• Attention getter: Show a short video clip or a story about feeling of tourists on Vietnamese foods• Relevance: Discussion based on video clip watched or stories read – ask learners to discuss why it is important for homestay hosts to know the local food • Discussion: Invite participants to share their prior experiences of local food they have had at their homestay.
Topic 1: The homestay culinary experience
• The homestay culinary experience• Understanding culinary cultural
differences
Topic 2: Food knowledge• Selecting good food• Storing food safely
Topic 3: Good personal and food hygiene
• Personal hygiene• Food hygiene• General kitchen hygiene
Topic 4: Menu planning• Planning what meals to serve guests
Topic 5: Cooking Class: Breakfast• Prepare breakfast
Topic 6: Cooking Class: Lunch and Dinner
• Lunch and dinner
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The homestay culinary experience
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Brainstorming: Types of local dishes or drinks that tourists might like that display the best of local cuisine • Group discussion: Importance of providing local foods to guests.• Group discussion: Why food is an important part of the homestay experience.
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Tourist culinary motivations and expectations of homestays
• Culture and (local) food is an important part of tourism experience.
• eating foods that they will never be able to get anywhere else is an exciting and interesting experience
• Learning about different types of cooking techniques or flavours
• enjoy healthy, safe, interesting and appropriate dishes
What makes a dish or meal ‘authentic’?
• Local ingredients, recipes, cooking methods and dishes presentation
• Serving food traditionally using traditional utensils and dishes
• Serving with traditional accompaniments and drinks
• eating in the traditional way• Seating may or may not be traditional
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The homestay culinary experience
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Understanding culinary cultural differences
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
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• Storytelling: Bad food experiences in homestay of tourists• Group discussion: The differences between Asian and Western cuisine and palate. Identification of dishes observed to be the most popular and unpopular with guests and matching the type of food with the type of guest.
• Spicy• Fat• Bone
Culinary influences• People from different countries generally
eat food that is particular to their culture. • Traditionally cuisine is a product of the
food that can be grown or caught in an area as determined by:* Local geography* Local climate * Historical outside influences* Upbringing
Common Asian likes but Western dislikes in cuisine:
• Fat kept on meat• Meat kept on bones• Spicy food• A lot of oil• Internal organs or blood• MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate)• Charismatic animals (cats, dogs, horses)• “Dirty” or dangerous animals• Insects• reptiles (frog, snake)
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Understanding culinary cultural differences
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Selecting good food
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Brainstorming: Why select good food?• Flashcard matching game: english names of a range of food items
Selecting foods for homestay menus: • Use ingredients that can be bought in
local markets or grown at home.• Do not usually include items with wheat
or dairy items• Main products are poultry, forest animals,
fish, shrimp, fruit and vegetables.• Use green herbs that can be bought or
grown locally. • Spices: popular and dry• Some ingredients that are brought from
the cities (if necessary).
What is good food?• Good food means a wide variety of fresh
foods of good quality including - fruit, vegetables, grains, lean meats, fish, poultry and eggs.
• Safe: food that is fresh, stored properly and has no spoilage, pest activity or any signs of damage. Food that is therefore hygienic and will not make anyone sick.
• Quality: best quality possible - e.g. meat from younger animals, ripe not over ripe fruit, vegetables that are not old and woody, unwilted vegetables, no bruising on veg or fruit
• Nutritious: fresh food has the best nutrition value.
• Vegetables• Meat• Fish• Chicken• Prawn• rice
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Selecting good food
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How to select the best food
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Brainstorming: Criteria for selecting good food – name a food product and explain how to identify if it is fresh or not• Group Discussion: Criteria for selecting different type of foods
Importance of selecting good food?• To ensure the safety and well-being of
guests• To serve the best possible meals to
our guests
Criteria for selecting good food: • Colour• Smell • Freshness: different for meat, fish,
poultry, fruit and vegetables, tofu• Condition: the food must be in good
condition – no bruises, dry patches, insect stings or pest damage, sealed properly if in containers,
• Use-by date: any date stamped items should be bought and used before the date has expired)
• Seafood• Fresh
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How to select the best food
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Storing food safely
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Brainstorming: Disadvantages of storing foods at homestay• Discuss: What should be done to
solve difficulties in storing foods?• Group Discussion: Criteria to select
differance type of foods
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General principles:• Store in clean, closed containers• keep cooked food above raw food• keep different types of food separate• keep uncooked fresh foods as cold as
possible• Store food off the floor away from
animals, pests and damp. • Cover foods with a clean cloth or store
in a traditional wooden food safe. • Avoid “left-over” from cooked &
uncooked food
Main criteria in storing different types of foods:
• Meat, chicken and fish• Vegetables• Fruit • rice• Spices• Cooked food
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Personal hygiene
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Demonstration of cross contamination from surfaces – one to another using gloves and colouring• Group discussion: What are Dos and DoN’Ts in keeping personal hygiene when dealing with foods?• Demonstration: Trainer provides a demonstration of how to wash hands, following the diagrams in the flip file – all delegates to follow and practice.• Individual practice: Washing hands
• Washing• Cover• Hygiene
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Why practice good personal hygiene principles?• Good personal hygiene can prevent food poisoning• Tourists are more sensitive to bacteria and may get ill
more quickly.• Consequences of poor hygiene:
* Tourists will not stay and eat at your homestay* Tourists may leave negative comments on the
Internet (Trip Advisor, Facebook)* Tour guides may not bring more tourists to you.* Fewer tourists = Less income.
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Personal hygiene
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What are Dos and DON’Ts in keeping personal hygiene when dealing with foods?
• Wear clean clothes or a clean apron when making food
• Wash your hands:* After using the toilet* Before working with food* After working with raw meat, fish, poultry
or other animal products* After smoking* After blowing your nose or scratching or
touching any part of your body – even hair* After touching animals* After working outside
• Cover any injuries or wounds on your hands with waterproof dressing
• Never cough or sneeze over food – turn to the side and cough and sneeze away from the food
• keep hair tied up and away from the face• Don’t wear any excessive jewellery that
may catch bits of food• keep nails short and clean so no food gets
stuck under the nails• So not work with food if you are sick with a
cold, upset stomach or other illness.• Do not cook barefoot – hot food or dropped
utensils can hurt your feet
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Food hygiene
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Discussion: Principles in keeping food hygiene• Group exercise: Find out the source of contamination when we cook and sever food
• Poisoning
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Importance of practicing food hygiene:Prevents food from spreading bacteria that can make you or your guests sick.
Food Hygiene: Looking after food carefully so that it does not get contaminated with bacteria and cause food poisoning
Food Poisoning: when people get sick from eating food that has specific kinds of bacterial on it
Key principles in keeping food hygiene:• Prevent cross contamination• keep food cold• keep food covered• Heat food quickly• Manage waste• Wash food• Store food separately• Manage children and pests• Use food quickly• Food utensils and container
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Food hygiene
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General kitchen hygiene
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Group exercise: What is practice of kitchen hygiene • Discussion on types of kitchen waste, problems that are related to kitchen wastes and how to handle kitchen wastes
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Practicing kitchen hygiene will help prevent food poisoning!
General kitchen cleaning:• keep the kitchen tidy • Sweep the kitchen area and wash the
floor every day.• Wash the counters, shelves,
cupboards and food storage areas regularly
Clean dishes and cooking utensils and equipment
• Clean cooking equipment as soon as possible after using it
• Clean dishes and utensils thoroughly using proper equipment
• Dishes and utensils should be rinsed with clean water to remove the soap.• Dishes and utensils should be dried properly before being stored and used
Kitchen waste • Put kitchen wastes into a container with a tight fitting lid• empty the waste container once or twice a day• keep your waste container clean
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Importance of menu planning
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
Group discussion: • What is menu planning? • Why is it important? • What must be considered? • Why menu has put price?
• Menu• Dish• Meal
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What is a menu?• A range of dishes available for a meal service such as breakfast,
lunch or dinner
Why is menu planning important?• Identify ingredients to be purchased and from where• estimate time required to prepare the food• Arrange the equipment needed • organise the people needed • Budget the money needed to purchase foods• Calculate how much the food costs is
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Planning what meals to serve your guests
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Group exercise: What are the main raw food products available during each season, and the main types of meals that are often cooked at that time? • Group exercise: Menu development
• Breakfast• Lunch• Dinner• rice
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When deciding what to serve your homestay guests, think about:
• Meal time • Local specialties • existing options• Seasonality• Number of guests
• How many dishes• equipment• Cost• Type of guests• Food mix / complimentary foods
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Prepare breakfast
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Brainstorming: Name of some typical dishes for breakfast • Role play: What is offered to Western tourists if they are
not comfortable with Vietnamese breakfasts? • Practical session: Making breakfast dishes
- Preparation - Demonstration of trainer: Group or individual practice
under trainer’s supervision and instruction - Tasting: trainees taste cooked breakfast and provide
comments - Trainer provides feedback.
• Breakfast menu and recipe • egg• Porridge• omelette• Crepe• Pancake
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Western Breakfast: • Very specific items are eaten at
breakfast – and only at breakfast
• Typical dishes:* Cereals and porridge* Fruit* Dairy* Hot breakfast* Bread items* Drinks
Vietnamese breakfast:• Two types of typical dishes in
Vietnamese breakfast cuisine:* Dishes with stock* Dishes without stock
• Typical dishes:* Soups* rice porridge* rice based dishes* rice dishes* egg dishes* “Pho” or rice noodles* Instant noodles
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Prepare breakfast
If Western guests are not comfortable eating a Vietnamese breakfast, you could offer them:
• Fresh fruit• eggs dishes• Fresh tomato with the egg • Any bread such as baguette• rice porridge• Pancake (rice) or stuffed rice
pancakes
Practice to make breakfast dishes
Presenting breakfast dishes:• Clean bowls or plates – no splashes• A bit of garnish like some fresh
coriander leaves• Suitable accompaniments.
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Lunch and dinner
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ActivitiesHand-outs english
• Brainstorming: What are differences between Asian and Western lunch and dinner?• Discussion: What should be considered when cooking for Westerners?• Group exercise: Popular Asian and Western dishes served at homestay• Practical Session: Making lunch and dinner dishes
• Lunch and dinner menu and recipe • Soup• Selection of dishes
(see the table below)
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Western eating pattern: • Lunch: midday meal is usually
lighter than evening meal. Can consist of various dishes like:* Sandwiches* Salads* Soups* Light dishes
• Dinner: this is the main meal. It is also called “square meals” – consisting of 4 elements: protein, starch and 1 green veg and 1 yellow veg.
Protein: meat, chicken, fish Starch: rice, potato, noodles
Yellow veg: carrots, butternut, pumpkin, etc
Green veg: spinach, broccoli, beans, etc
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Vietnamese lunch and dinner:• Soup• rice • Noodle dish• Meat dish
When cooking for Westerners: • remember the guidelines that are
discussed at the beginning of the module • Westerners usually like to have vegetables
or a vegetable dish with their meals.• Provide a lighter meal at midday, and a
bigger/heavier meal in the evening• Taking a western dish and adding local
ingredients or flavours
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