Hong Kong’s own Truffle Queen Esther Au has opened her spacious private Cooking Studio (website: http://www.moltodolce.com.hk/), and I took 2 cooking classes within the same week here. A normal class starts from around $600 and you learn to cook about 4 dishes ranging from Italian food, Esther’s forte as she has spent quite some time there in Italy, all the way to Abalone Dim Sums and Japanese food as taught by some very famous Michelin starred Chefs. This event was a collaboration between Dolce Donna’s Black Truffle dishes with 7-Eleven’s brand new slow-cooked pasteurised eggs plus other brand new items. The cross-over event sprang some surprises as it is very likely to save us a lot of time preparing certain dishes involving eggs!
Held at Donna Dolce,
Quite close to APM Shopping Mall in Kwun Tong -
Esther’s private Cooking Studio has Italian food classes, as well as Dessert making courses, and cross-overs with multiple Michelin Starred Chefs in town teaching you how to make dim sums. *You need to email or call up to ask about the Chinese courses, as the restaurants the Chefs come from are very strict on advertising using their restaurant’s or head chef’s names. But trust me, the best chefs in town are here.
Huge Winter Black Truffles -
Some Pancetta today, for making a more laymen version of Carbonara today -
During an earlier class, Esther used the more traditional Guanciale instead but since it was a much bigger group today, she decided to use a more commonly available product.
Some Pots of Flowers and Herbs -
Food being Prepared from Scratch -
Here we go – Making our own Pasta Doughs!
Using a mixture of Italian eggs and 2 types of Flours, I will let you find out about the final secret formula for a great pasta, when you come here yourself!
Rolling out and Cutting the final Pasta to the right size -
This time a Tagliolini pasta..
My fresh Tagliolini -
I made them quite long today.
Toasting some Bread –
These are actually available at 7-Eleven stores now!
Eggs Benedict of Spring Asparagus, Onsen Egg,
Truffled Hollandaise sauce,
Mangalica Ham and Shaved Black Truffles -
The pasterized Onsen eggs are actually now available at 7-Eleven stores for HKD $9.90! Amazing isn’t it? The bread we toasted with butter was also their product. The Mangalica ham is made from Hungarian DNA hairy pigs in Spain, they are actually really flavourful. You can purchase them here at Dolce Donna for under $100 which is nearly half price, and Italian eggs here are $8 each only!
The Egg is quite runny too..
Keep it refrigerated and they can be eaten as is since they have been pasteurised. The 100% raw version is also bacteria free, also available at 7-Eleven stores. Note that their egg-whites are slightly murky in color due to the quick pasteurisation process.
Our Home-made Tagliolini Carbonara with Egg Yolks, Pancetta, Cheese & Black Pepper -
It’s topped with an onsen egg as well. The pasta making process is hard enough, let’s save some time by buying a pre-slow cooked poached egg! Esther recommends the base Carbonara formula to use slightly less egg yolk if you have this additional egg!
Summer Berries Ice Cream Sandwich -
Trying out this new product! Quite summery…
7-Eleven’s Curry Beef Rice with Egg -
This was surprisingly very good, I was very shocked as this is potentially Yoshinoya beating stuff!
The additional egg was added in by me but you could replicate this same dish at 7-Eleven outlets now and make yourself look like a fast food master!
Raw & Poached Eggs (Pasteurized) - $9.9
Making life easy with safe and readily purchasable eggs.
Kitchen Studio by night..
A Chitarra utensil to make ‘Guitar’ and also Tonnarelli pasta -
Cooking Classes here can be booked at Molto Dolce’s website:
http://www.moltodolce.com.hk/
Follow their FANS Page on Facebook to keep up to date: https://www.facebook.com/moltodolce.hk
The website is mostly in Chinese but they communicate fluently in English and Italian, so the classes ranging from Italian to Chinese Dim Sums, Japanese to Wine Classes can be held in multiple languages.
Address: Dolce Donna 觀塘駿業里6號富利工業大廈8樓B室
8B, Fully Industrial Building, 6 Ysun Yip Lane, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Email: info@moltodolce.com.hk
Ph: +852 21510609
Address: 7-Eleven Convenience Stores throughout Hong Kong
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