Cooking School in Singapore: True Asian Fusion

Singapore is a tiny island state just off the coast of Asia. It is a melting pot of Asian culture and offers up a distinctive array of cuisines and fusions. Even languages are varied and include: Malay, Mandarin, and English. For students of Asian cooking Singapore as an educational destination is unmatched. In fact some very well-known cooking schools are located here.

Master Singapore Street Food

One of the more notable culinary anomalies in Singapore is the small nation’s street food, found primarily in the public hawker markets. Like American street vendors this type of food is inexpensive and usually quite flavorful. But in Singapore the street food has reached a level of culinary notoriety. Popular street foods include satays, hainanese chicken rice, curried pancake creations, and chicken and coconut rice. The flavors are true melds of Asian flavors and combine to create famously tasteworthy combinations that even international food critics have hailed. Guess what? Learn how to cook Singaporean street food at the popular cooking schools.

Popular Singapore Culinary Schools

Shermay’s Cooking School -- Founded by Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, Shermay Lee, this Singaporean culinary school provides a curriculum designed for amateurs and pros alike. This Asian region offers a unique variety of cuisine from traditional to “street” foods—and you can learn them all at Shermay’s. In fact the region’s foods embrace components of Japanese, Chinese and Malay cuisines. Local and national executive chefs and chef/owners teach the courses, which offers you an even better opportunity to learn details of the dishes and commit culinary technique to memory.

Cookery Magic -- Small, informal and intimate characterizes Cookery Magic’s classes. This school is well-known in and outside Singapore and appeals to both novice cooks as well as experienced student chefs looking to perhaps deepen their Asian cooking skills, or diversify their Western culinary skills. The Daily Home Cooking class delivers daylong 3 course intensives in a medley of Asian traditions, including Singapore, Malay, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and simple fusions like Indochina-Thai, or Indochina-Vietnamese. Chef founder and teacher Ruqxana Vasanwala has confectionary education from Wilton School.

At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy -- At-Sunrice takes chef training and education seriously. As a student chef you learn and work locally in one of the many restaurants and hotels in multicultural Singapore. In fact the students of At-Sunrice are important features of the local food and beverage industry. Faculty include chef/instructors from world-famous Johnson and Wales University Culinary Arts program. At-Sunrice programs of study include:

• Advanced Culinary Placement Diploma, a 2-year intensive in culinary training that preps you for mid-level entry into Asian, European, or American food and beverage industries.
• Diploma in Culinary Craft and Service Excellence, a 1-year intensive in Eastern/Western culinary traditions.
• Diploma in Pastry and Baking Arts, a 15-month intensive that blends the best of Eastern and Western confections and baking.