Food for Thought School & College Tours to China
Explore the "Real China" with this incredibly educational Food for Thought tour to China. Groups will enjoy tasting diverse types of dishes throughout their tour, learn how to cook typical chinese dishes and visit several markets.
Food Related Visits
- Cooking Demonstrations- Groups will discover how to use local produce in three different cooking demonstrations throughout their tour.
- Day at Cookery School - Spend the day learning the cooking technique used to create some of China's greatest dishes.
- Snack Market - Visit a local snack market to explore China's new flavours and produce.
- Muslim Market - Discover the smells and flavours of food from China and the rest of the wold.
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Curriculum Focus
- Learn about and practise a range of practical food skills/methods/processes to produce quality outcomes
- Learn about the impact and effect of using a range of different equipment to produce food items of quality and consistency
- Explore how quality control checks are used to produce consistent food products on a commercial scale
- Experience the impact of ICT within the food industry
Student Outcomes
- Develop an awareness of current commercial/industrial processes of food production
- Learn about methods of food processing and preservation
- Witness and consider health, safety and quality control in all its aspects and discover the importance of packaging within the food industry
- Produce high-quality dishes that are accurately assembled and well finished to produce a high-quality product overall
- Learn about technological development, cultural and economic issues within the food industry
