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11/02/2010
Healthier Options For Year Of Tiger
Chefs from Chinese restaurants across Belfast will be doing battle this Valentine's Day in a 'masterchef' competition organised by the city council.
Alos celebrating the Chinese New Year, the culinary challenge will take place in St George's Market as part of the annual celebrations this Sunday (14 February).
The 'Year of the Tiger' event follows on from a successful project organised by the council's food safety team last year, to encourage Chinese takeaways to include healthier options on their menus.
High Sherriff of Belfast Councillor Christopher Stalford, who will be on the judges' tasting panel, said: "More than 50 chefs from Chinese restaurants across Belfast took part in our healthy cooking workshops last year, with celebrity chef Nancy Lam (pictured here with Chung Wing Wong).
"To build on that success, we thought this would be another way of getting the 'healthy' message out there.
"Research shows that Chinese food is the takeaway of choice across the UK but very often the nutritional value is reduced because the recipes have been adapted to suit our westernised palette," he explained.
"The aim of this project is to encourage takeaways to include healthier options on their menus and for chefs to go back to their traditional, healthy roots."
This Sunday's competition will see chefs prepare one meal which will be judged on its taste and nutritional value, and how hygienically it has been prepared.
Joining the High Sherriff on the judging panel is Jeremy Chan, owner and chef of Sinley restaurant in Cookstown, and William Lam from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
The winning chef will be announced at the event and they'll enjoy a two night stay at Galgorm Manor in Ballymena, sponsored by Firmus Energy.
The winner will also be invited to the annual Chinese New Year gala dinner at Belfast's Europa Hotel.
Meanwhile, St George's Market will be host to a sea of colour and activity to see in the Chinese Year of the Tiger.
There will be entertainment for all the family including Chinese performers, acrobats, jugglers, martial arts demonstrations and Chinese arts and craft workshops.
As well as the masterchef event which runs from 12pm-2.30pm, food stalls will be selling local and global cuisine and a spectacular Lion Dance from 1pm-3pm.
(BMcC/GK)
Alos celebrating the Chinese New Year, the culinary challenge will take place in St George's Market as part of the annual celebrations this Sunday (14 February).
The 'Year of the Tiger' event follows on from a successful project organised by the council's food safety team last year, to encourage Chinese takeaways to include healthier options on their menus.
High Sherriff of Belfast Councillor Christopher Stalford, who will be on the judges' tasting panel, said: "More than 50 chefs from Chinese restaurants across Belfast took part in our healthy cooking workshops last year, with celebrity chef Nancy Lam (pictured here with Chung Wing Wong).
"To build on that success, we thought this would be another way of getting the 'healthy' message out there.
"Research shows that Chinese food is the takeaway of choice across the UK but very often the nutritional value is reduced because the recipes have been adapted to suit our westernised palette," he explained.
"The aim of this project is to encourage takeaways to include healthier options on their menus and for chefs to go back to their traditional, healthy roots."
This Sunday's competition will see chefs prepare one meal which will be judged on its taste and nutritional value, and how hygienically it has been prepared.
Joining the High Sherriff on the judging panel is Jeremy Chan, owner and chef of Sinley restaurant in Cookstown, and William Lam from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
The winning chef will be announced at the event and they'll enjoy a two night stay at Galgorm Manor in Ballymena, sponsored by Firmus Energy.
The winner will also be invited to the annual Chinese New Year gala dinner at Belfast's Europa Hotel.
Meanwhile, St George's Market will be host to a sea of colour and activity to see in the Chinese Year of the Tiger.
There will be entertainment for all the family including Chinese performers, acrobats, jugglers, martial arts demonstrations and Chinese arts and craft workshops.
As well as the masterchef event which runs from 12pm-2.30pm, food stalls will be selling local and global cuisine and a spectacular Lion Dance from 1pm-3pm.
(BMcC/GK)
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