Whoa!!! These cooking lessons are long overdue. I think I registered for them about in April and it was suppose to start on July, but it got pushed back and only started this week!
I paid $85 for 8 lessons and for 16 recipes. I can show you the dishes that we are going to learn. They actually have it on the course outline. Beside the cost of the course, there is also ingredient price that would be needed to be paid to the instructor at the end of each lesson.
Then why I want to take up this like cooking lessons right. I think for me, it is just to be able to learn many other recipes and I want to learn the different techniques of cooking. I want to be able to improve my skills and to spend more time in things I like to do.
The first lesson was on 26th August and I was damn excited about it. The lesson was held at Bukit Merah Community Centre and it is at 7.30pm.
I reached damn early at around 7.05 and just wonder around the CC and also trying to find the classroom. I managed to find it, and I was quite shy at first. I looked into the classroom and all of them are aunties and like they know each other and talking to each other.
I found a seat at the back of the class, and just sat there silently. I was very shy and some aunties look at me and I smiled at them and give them a nod.
Some of the aunties were busying preparing the demo, and the instructor came in at around 7.15pm.
Suddenly, one of the aunties sitting in front of me, turned around and say hi, and like initiated a conversation with me, and I was so happy, like yay! I asked her If she know most of them, and she said that, they have been attending lessons for about 10 years and following the same instructor. Then again, I asked her where she stay, and she is staying at Woodlands, and she come all the way to the South side, just to spend some time together with her friends. I was quite shocked!!
She was like, very very rare to see young people joining them and coming for such classes.
It was at 7.30pm, when the teacher start her lesson and passed out the recipes for the dishes that we were going to cook on that day!
It was Spice Curry Chicken and Peanut Shallot Cake.
She started doing the Peanut Shallot Cake first, cause you need like 35 minutes to steam it. She was quite detailed and she spoke in Chinese and like say all the ingredients in Chinese, and sometimes I need to check with the aunty that spoke to me to confirm the steps and ingredients.
Alot of aunties will take video on their phone and will stand near to the teacher and start asking questions. They take their lesson very seriously!
Slowly, slowly, I also stand up from my seat and went in front and start taking photos and joining in to the conversation with the teachers. Majority of the aunty spoke Cantonese and luckily, I know how to hear and speak, then can join in the conversation.
So, the lesson went on for about 1 hour 30 mins.
Nearing at the end of the lesson, the teacher will tell like the leader of the group, that today ingredient cost about $35 and we are suppose to divide it and part for our share, so about $2.4 for the first lesson.
Then the teacher, will then pack for us the food that she cooked, and then she will hand it over to us, when we made payment.
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