Food lovers in Hong Kong are spoilt for choice, with everything from dai pai dong serving up cheap, tasty food to a host of Michelin-starred restaurants offering local, regional and international delights to tickle the taste buds of even the most hardened of food critics.
The food here inspires an ever-growing number of people to take classes in cooking, in the hopes of replicating some of their best-loved dishes at home.
Many cooking schools offer the chance to learn, not only the skills needed to create local specialities, but also dishes from Thailand, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, the mainland, Japanese and Western specialities. In fact, one can learn to cook pretty much anything at one school or another.
Some offer demonstration lessons to give students an overview of how to cook a dish, while others offer hands-on practical lessons that allow students to cook the dish themselves.
Some of the specialist classes teach dishes that anyone living in Hong Kong will be familiar with, and one of the most popular classes teaches the art of making dim sum. Adding those extra special touches to a dinner party, such as elegantly folding napkins, mixing cocktails and setting the table, are skills that can also be learned at the school.
