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Deliciousness Lasts through VPET, while Love and Care Bring Generations Together – 2024 March Issue

Cooking Together, Passing on Happiness through Delicacies

With the support of the Chinese Culinary Institute (CCI) and the Student Development Discipline, we collaborated with the Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) "Caring Engaging Smart" (CES) for the first time to organise the "Inclusive Fun Kitchen". Participants were senior volunteers from CES at Kwun Lung Lau in Kennedy Town, who prepare nutritious soups and snacks for elderly people living alone or in pairs in the estate every month to show their care and concern. The aim of this activity was for VTC students to teach these senior volunteers how to make Chinese dim sum, which they could then share with the estate's residents, achieving the goal of bridging the generation gap and connecting the community through VPET.

The dim sum made this time was "Four Happiness Dumplings". The cooking method and ingredients were light and delicious. In addition to being healthy, the CCI teachers and students also considered the auspicious meaning of the dish. "Four Happiness Dumplings" symbolises happiness, prosperity, longevity, and good fortune, and the hope was to spread happiness throughout Kwun Lung Lau. FONG, a student in the Diploma in Chinese Cuisine programme who participated in the activity for the first time with the elderly, found it very fulfilling: "During the process, I taught the elderly a new way to wrap dumplings, and they were all very excited. They also shared a lot of cooking tips with me and asked me why I wanted to be a chef. It turns out that food can really bring people closer together!"

To watch the highlights of the event and learn the secret of making Four Happiness Dumplings, please visit our YouTube channel: 

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[Photo above] Dr Tommy LAU Wing-tong (second row, middle), Vice-Principal of Hotel and Tourism Institute (HTI), Chinese Culinary Institute (CCI) and International Culinary Institute (ICI), with teachers, students, and participants

New Soft Food Products Enter Tasting Phase

The development of soft food for the elderly, a collaboration between Health and Life Sciences Discipline, Design Discipline, and Sik Sik Yuen, is in full swing. After repeated verification and testing, students have designed dishes according to the needs and tastes of the elderly and have produced two soft food products: Steamed Chicken Roll and Steamed Pork Ribs with Black Bean Sauce Rice. These were recently given to the elderly for tasting, and feedback was collected for further adjustment. CHAN, a student in the Higher Diploma in Food Technology and Safety at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), said: "In addition to taste, we will also adjust the soft food according to food safety, nutrition, and thickness. We hope that the elderly will enjoy eating it and that it will be healthy for them."

After the soft food products have been finalised and packaged, we plan to share the results at the Wong Tai Sin Temple in the third quarter of this year. Please stay tuned.

Artistic Lighting Illuminates Extraordinary Lives

The water pipe lamps that were previously made by teachers and students from Pro-Act Training and Development Centre (Mechanical) and people in recovery (PIR), were unveiled at the opening day of the Integrated Community Centre for Mental Wellness (Hong Kong East) of the Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service (BOKSS) this month, with several officiating guests presiding over the lighting ceremony. These ingeniously designed water pipe lamps will also be exhibited in three of BOKSS' Integrated Community Centres for Mental Wellness to promote mental health awareness.

These water pipe lamps will also be exhibited in Times Square soon, so please stay tuned.

For an interview and highlights of the water pipe light production workshop, please visit our channel: 

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[Photo above] Officiating guests: (from left) Centre family representative, Ms Zoe MA Lai-ha (Project Coordinator (Eastern District Health Centre Express), The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation), Mr HUNG Chiu-kwan (Eastern District Council Member), Ms Jenny KO Lai-fong (Academic Director of Student Development Discipline, VTC), Mr Raymond CHIU Han-man (Chief Executive Officer of BOKSS), Ms Patricia WOO Mei-hing (District Social Welfare Officer (Eastern & Wan Chai), Social Welfare Department), Ms Rebecca WONG Yuen-yung (Coordinator (Patient Resource Centre & Community Service), HKEC), Ms NG Ching-ching (Eastern District Council Member), Mr LAM Sum-lim (Eastern District Council Member), and Centre member representative

[Photo below] Teachers and students from Pro-Act Training and Development Centre (Mechanical) were also invited to attend

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