Monday Blues ....

Choux Pastry

Eclairs

Start with a fresh day looking forward to school only to find out that there might be more then meets the eye in our class. It was stated that we were suppose to studee under Chef Frederic , work in TOP hotel/patisseries as quote in the brochure as per below : -

- The first diploma of its kind in Asia, master the integrities of pastry and bread-making from the French pastry master himself, Chef Frederic Deshayes.

Note : "HIMSELF"

Faculty : You will receive instruction from the at-sunrice team of professional pastry and baking educators who have worked in the USA, France, UK, Belgium, Japan, Korea, Thailand, India, Vietnam, China, Malaysia and Hong Kong

Apprenticeship in top hotels patisseries,fine dining patisseries and standalone patisseries.

Note : "TOP"

But least did we all know , most of our classes will be taken by Chef Jimmy, Chef Frederic will most prob take us for orientation and term 4 n 5 ( as he is already taking 2 full time classes) and most of our attachements are new partners , hotel placement is only 3 pax and the rest of us ... all standalone pastry shop and stuff. Not that we had any thing against Chef Jimmy , just that we were all enrolled thinking that we will be trained under Chef Frederic himself. But now all seems different so we also dunno what is in for us now ... think we will need to sort it out with the school. This is just not fair to us cos all these was not mention to us before the course and we will assume what we read on the brochure.

Anyway today's first theory class with Chef Frederic , all was quiet cos he asked us anyone of us read pior to the class and only 1 did , yet none can answer his question. We had our afternoon class with Chef Jimmy for piping practices again and this time is piping choux pastry .... i totally suck at piping .. think getting from bad to worst ... think last time at BITC i still ok leh .... anyway more practices needed for me ... anyway attached it 2 pics i took today.