Iron Chef Thailand Winner, Chef Tom Halpin, Shares Experience with Budding Future Chefs at KDU University Colleg

Halpin sharing his experience with KDU’s culinary students

What better source of knowledge, experience, or information that we could get than from the master, guru, or the expert themselves. In this entry, we will take a peep at the sharing session with Chef Tom Halpin, an ex sous chef at Denmark’s two Michelin-starred, Noma and the winner of 2015 Iron Chef Thailand which was hosted by KDU University College at the Utropolis Glenmarie campus for our culinary students.

Halpin was in Malaysia for a collaboration with Chef Darren Teoh, executive chef of KDU’s own modern Malaysian fine dining restaurant Dewakan, on a dinner series featuring his exclusive interpretation of our Malaysian herbs and produce, held from 20 to 22 October. 

We utilised the opportunity to arrange for a special sharing session with the celebrity chef to impart his wealth of experience in the culinary industry with the students who are eager to learn more from his previous endeavour.

The evening transpired into a rich and colourful session for the students as they managed to throw important questions such as the source of inspiration, best recipe and ingredients, best produce in cooking and many more. This sort of exposure is extremely useful for the culinary students to further pursue their dreams in the ever challenging industry that they will soon delve into as soon as they graduate. It provided them with a first-hand experience from such an iconic personality such as Halpin who made his way through in the culinary industry and became successful.

Group photo session with the rest of participants of an evening with Halpin

In conclusion, the students were very satisfied with the kind of opportunity given to them to attain knowledge and get to mingle with one of the best chefs in the world. When asked if they were looking forward to attend such occasion again, they replied with open arms and hope to get such rare opportunity again in the near future. It was a remarkable evening that the students had with the Iron Chef and they had a lot of fun while taking a step closer towards their dream goals, to be the best chefs in the world.