These series of classes are designed for those of you who are interested in learning proper cooking or baking techniques and skills. Classes are held in the culinary arts laboratories and lecture rooms. In most cases, you have the opportunity to prepare and produce certain foods, sample, and discuss methods and techniques with the chef instructor. The culinary series are modular. This means you may pick and choose classes that fit your personal interests. In order to ensure individual attention and safety, class enrollment is limited. To enroll, please call 808-734-9211.

Dress code : As a safety precaution, participants in all culinary classes are encouraged to wear covered, non-slip shoes (e.g. tennis shoes) and comfortable slacks. Aprons or any other personal items may also be brought to class. The college, however, will not be held responsible, if such items are lost or stolen.

Man Can Cook – The Joy of Choys

Man Can Cook – Asian Home-Style Cooking
Daniel Leung is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Kapi’olani Community College and our Culinary Tourism Coordinator. A self styled “rabid foodie”, he learned most of his Chinese cooking from his mother and continued to refine them through years of travel and cooking for family and friends. (His children love his broccoli and spinach!) Daniel has eaten his way through China, Vietnam, and Thailand on personal “research” trips, and has taken groups on food tours to China and Hong Kong. Ask him about his eating adventures from the sublime (freshly harvested baby corn) to the extreme (deep fried scorpions).

The Joy of Choys
This class will go through different methods for bringing out the best flavor in various types of fresh, green leafy vegetables available at local markets. You will learn how to pair each type of vegetable with traditional as well as not so traditional flavoring agents and garnishes. You will learn to name and identify Chinese and Asian leaf vegetables and how to pick the best in their different forms. For example, do you know why if you order “choy sum” in different parts of China you will get a different vegetable? You will also pick up a few interesting facts about these vegetables. (Please note that this is not a class for vegetarians as one of the main ingredients used will be chicken broth.)