LaI pO HeeN kItcHen

Place : Mandarin Oriental
HotelDepartment : F&B
Restaurant : Lai Po Heen Kitchen
Period : 1 March - 21 March
Scheduled Shift : 10.30am - 10.30pm (Split Shift~Break @ 3pm-6pm)


Cant believe that this is the end of my training journey..
felt kinda sad and happy at the same time lol....
so confusing .......


this is my first time working with a bunch of chinese in a kitchen in Mandarin Oriental...
cause this is a chinese restaurant ..DUH~~!! lol...
and also the past 2 months i have been using Malay language so much till my chinese a bit wrong d lol....


i really liked the atmosphere in this kitchen and also the people there...
the first day i entered this kitchen , i dont know why but i kept on smiling and smiling...nth much LOL... just that.. maybe it's because of their communication skills in the kitchen and also the jokes that were all around the kitchen hahaha.....
this is also the first time i get to blend in with people that fast ....i am really happy about this..

The pics are a bit jumbled up and not in order...sry for that : )

9 New dIshes fOr April Promotion
and i am so lucky that these dishes were made before i left the kitchen on my last day T_T

dA cArvinG dOne by 2 cheFs

dOne bY me Lol... a roSe caRving

caRvings dOne by Chef Wah (not me hehe...)

this swan is so funny lol.... wtahcing it's egg till hatch LOL....

one of the best carVings that i have seen so far... a PRAWn~!!!

it is so real @@

flower decorations...these are the few i did...but just using toothpicks to join them up : )




My 1st attempt to carve out a leave shape using a red capsicum
well... from the look of it i FAILeD...lol

this is the dont know how many attempts...can say partially a Success

a small little prawn that my chef friend found LOL... so cute ahhahah

Dim sUm Chef Hoe did this ...actually i challenged him to make as many petal shape/holes as possible lol..well he did it lol...been screwed by him too... cause if i request him to do this...i should be paying him for the workmanship lol.......

this plates here are for those fried dim sums during the lunch hours...normally orders will come in and there will be a few pegs clip together with it and we will place the pegs to the respectives dishes stated on the bb plate...

well since i am a BANANA.......i cant read chinese symbols...that well..i decided to write the Pin Yin version of it... ahahah for the ease for me to collect order faster...see very EfficiEnt leh...

: )

these are prepared for functions with buffet styles..

this product is used to clean the prawns after they the shells are all ripped of LOL... after putting this powder in the water soaked with prawns , continuous flow of water is need to clean the prawns...the starting of this process will create a lot of bubbles which is just like having a bubble bath but this time the prawns have it LOL...

there was once i was in the butchery section of the kitchen...i was taught to remove the skin of the fillet and slice them to a certain size... believe it is NOT EASY !!!

this wouls be the skinless fillets : )

this is a sea cucumber...really my first time seeing it that big...nvr really thought thatit can be this HUGE....

look at the fish's gill... so bloody red which means...very fresh hehe...

the slaughter......

KILLING is not cruel....but EATING it is CRUEL!!!

dishes prepared for a function for 20 tables in the ballroom
the set was Muhibbah Set so there would be Malay, Chinese and Indian dishes...

this would be the 200 pax dinner in the ballroom...a western cuisine... so there would be a lot of plates involved...need a lot of man power to garnish and stuff...

this is the Main Course - Slmon fish

this pulak... is the dessert... chocolate muffin!!!!! looks good.....

well back to the kitchen....when free the butcher chefs will SLAUGHTER some crabs and cook them in steam and guess what... we will start to slowly remove all the meat from the shell....so .....nothing to say......

these are some of the decos... made by me !!

this really is cruel....well... the story started like this....

the crab got the chance to break itself free from the strings that are tied around it including the snappers...so... it got so excited...it eventually jumped out from the container as well....... so semangat... LOL..and ended up... got discovered by a chef and since it was so fierce... and they dont really know how to tie the crab back , they decided to kill it lol....

well firstly the snappers are destroyed ...so sad leh...... so that it wont attack anyone and harm us..

after that... the slaughter begun...

well for your info.........this is a Lobster's

HEAD WITHOUT IT'S BODY and it is still MOVING.....

Sea hOrse carvings done by Chef Dai Wai
so cute!!!

YES finally.... here lies the Award Wining Dessert....and am proud to announce the Man darin Oriental's Famous DURIAN PANCAKE!!!!!
it will cost you rm15 for a plate of 3 pieces : )

well i got to eat it for FREE heheheh....i normally eat the ones that cant be sold of due the the kebocoran of the pancake wrap...which is superbly thin and hard to make...

this dessert even got it's own license so that no one could make this and sell it anywhere else ...only Mandarin Oriental KL has it!!!

it is made up of cream and durian flesh as the filling

this is the promo dish of dim sum...which consist of 2 slices of Bao Yu and bao Yu cubes wrapped in the dumpling... it cost around rm20++ for a dish...which is quite worth it : )

this would be the westernized Gui Ling Gao dessert...as you can see... the deco is mor to french style...it contains a fried gui ling gao with rock melon strips and the normal cold one...

1 hot 1 cold ~~~~

these are the cans that i opened... during my first day of work in that kitchen.... LOL...

was given a titled... Prince of Cans LOL..........

i opened about 210 cans.. which could last me a lifetime i suppose LOL...

these are the sea coconut...

this pulak the longans...

i even slice the jelly into dimond cubes... and got to separate them...

ended up my whole hands are red because of the colouring...

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Ah Che and me

Celebrating Ah Ling's B'day... the tallest guy around LOL...

got to eat banana choc cake hahahah.........

Chef Wah and Me , C wah lol.......waHWaH wah....

the cooking area which is exposed to the restaurant itself through the see-through glass

Chef Fly and me hahahaha funny guy...

Chef Dai Wai... taught me some carving skills...

Chef Hoe...from the dimsum section... funny guy too...

On my left is a new staff... her name is Wong Fei... nice name hahaha...

and on my right is the one who make the durian pancakes wrap...GREAT

he is currently making the skin for the pancake...so i only could took picture of him not with him... he means serious business hahaha...he should be the follower d hahhaha

funny ppl hahahahaahhaha

Mr Look like a Blur guy...ahhahaha Ah Sing... from the first section i have been, the dessert section

all the fun peeps....... LOL..........

the one in front with the glasses is Chef Mok from HK very funny guy as well ahhahaha...........

well this guy here prepares one of my fav dishes which is the roasted duck and chicken ....those skills he had to cut and debone the parts of the duck and chicken are so fast and neat~~!!!

Really Truly missed this kitchen..........hope one day i will be back to eat some free meals there hahaaha...........!!!

at last i have finished posted all my 3 training departments.......... not easy ......with all these pictures to upload.....it takes quite some time.....but an=m happy i done it : ) enjOy!!!