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. 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 Abbotsford, our facility is a purpose-built space offering a range of hands-on and demonstration-style multicultural cooking classes to suit your event. Our training kitchen is fully equipped, using the latest induction cooking 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 6-15 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. Sample Menus by Theme1. Thai Cooking: Yellow Chicken Curry with Rice | Green Eggplant Curry with Rice (V) | Mango Sticky Rice2. Thai Cooking: Chicken Laab | Tom Kha Gai | Coconut Sago Pudding with Mango3. Japanese Cooking: Chikuzenni - Chicken and Root Vegetable Stew | Takikomi Gohan - Mushroom Rice | Matcha Pudding4. Japanese Cooking: Japanese Curry Chicken | Rice | Asazuke Japanese Quick Pickles with Kombu | Japanese Curry Eggplant | An Mitsu - Lemon Jelly, Green Tea Ice Cream, Red Bean Paste, Fruit5. Chinese Cooking: Mapo Tofu | Mushroom Mapo Tofu (V) | Steamed Chinese Vegetables | Steamed Rice | Mango Pudding6. Korean Cooking: Dak Galbi - Chicken Stew with Bean Paste | Oi Kimchi (Cucumber Kimchi) | Hwachae (Korean Fruit Punch)7. Korean Cooking: Seolleongtang - Oxtail Stew with Daikon Radish | Oi Kimchi (Cucumber Kimchi) | Hwachae (Korean Fruit Punch)8. Indian Cooking: Murgh Makhani (Butter Chicken) | Cucumber Raita | Vegetable Biryani | Coconut Ladoo9. Mexican Cooking: Chicken Enchiladas | Arroz Rojo (Mexican Red Rice) | Frijoles Negras (Stewed Black Beans) | Churros (Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts)10. Italian Cooking: Chicken Cacciatore | Polenta with Parmigiano | Tiramisu11. Italian Cooking: Rigatoni Bolognese | Lemon Garlic Broccolini | Mushroom Ragu | Passion Fruit Panna Cotta12. French Cooking: Turkey and Sage Fricassée | Mushroom Fricassée (V) | Herb Roasted Potatoes (V) | Lemon Cheesecake Balls13. French Cooking: Beef Bourguignon | Champignon au Vin (V) | Mascarpone Mashed Potatoes (V) | Chocolate Bread PuddingOn 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. We will set the kitchen up according to the menu of the country you choose. Working in teams up to two or more 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 6-15 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.

All ingredients and equipment needed to make a homemade meal to enjoy together with beer and wine. Read more details