Team Cooking Challenge Workshop: Corporate Kindness

Looking for fun team building activities in Melbourne? Join this interactive team cooking challenge with Otao Kitchen! Together we will help support homeless people's basic needs. Explore your team's true reasons for giving, make it a core part of your culture and encourage your employees’ involvement with team building activities. Plus we will give 10% on behalf of you to the charity we support. Besides just being the right thing to do, giving brings positive energy to your team culture and boosts morale. It’s a way to better lives throughout our community, and it provides a greater purpose for the work your people do daily.Not to mention, participation in community service activities can help to recognise top team members within the company. This improves its employer brand and creates better team work and engagement. In this class, your group gets together to enjoy a hands-on cooking experience with plenty of entertainment to prepare a social cook-off party. This class is perfect for clients or work colleagues cooking together looking to ignite their culinary passions. Located conveniently in Richmond, our facility is a purpose-built space offering a range of hands-on and demonstration-style Asian cooking classes to suit your event. Our training kitchen is fully equipped, using the latest induction cooking technology which is efficient and safe for you and your group. Highlights:

• A fully interactive cooking session, everyone cooks together.
• Each group will make enough food to feed 15-20 meals or people.
• Can include friendly competitive pressure on the teams.
• Explore fundamentals of cooking ingredients, spices and flavour profile.
• Create a delicious meal to your palette then enjoy a homemade meal with complimentary beer and wine.
• Chef led so there are no cooking disasters.

Sample menu We have worked with these menus as clients want to have frozen meals, however, we can get work with other menus as well. Ask us for a menu with Italian, Vietnamese, Korean or Japanese dishes.

• Indian 1 with Samosa vegetables (V) | Butter chicken and rice | Butter Potato and Mushroom(V) Date & Chocolate Balls
• Indian 2 with Beef Vindaloo, Sweet potato curry (V), Festive Rice, Coconut Ladoo
• Thai 1 with Chicken Glass Noodle Salad, Pad Thai Vegetarian (V), Thai Sweet Rice + Coconut
• Thai 2 with Spicy Chickpea, and Tomato Soup (V), Thai Pork Larb with roasted rice, Thai Jelly, and Coconut
• Chinese 1 with Chicken Wontons, Steamed Vegetarian dumplings, Sweet dumplings to taste
• Chinese 2 with Chinese Noodles with Sweet and Sour Vegetables, Fried Pork and Cabbages Dumplings, Chinese Sweet Spring rolls - Nian Gao
• December Christmas Menu with individual Turkey Pies, Vegetable Pies (V), Thai Salmon Cakes, Mini mince pies

On the day:

• We begin with a complimentary refresher while guests are arriving. Next, we prep for one hour. Then we together cook all the dishes. Finally, you and your guests can enjoy new flavours, exotic ingredients, cooking, drinking, eating and sharing your creations around a large kitchen table.
• The experience will be for three hours so you might cook two or three rounds. We will set the kitchen up according to the menu of the country you choose. Working in teams up to two to three people, you will be making two to three dishes from scratch and possibly another dish or two for you to eat. Each team will finish and present the dish in takeaway containers so they can be transported to the client's venue.
• We can include a competitive or relaxed style of cooking in this class. Each group will make enough food to feed 15-20 meals.
• Pre and post party venue – The National Hotel, located in Richmond’s bustling Victoria Street, is a place for locals and far-flung travellers to come together in a community-minded space, where the staff is always proud to serve and the atmosphere is heady with good vibes.

Perfect for beginners!
  All ingredients and equipment needed to make a homemade meal to enjoy together with beer and wine.
  Wear enclosed shoes and tie up long hair.