Sunway University College (Sunway) students experienced Venezuela when students of the School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Management (SHTLM) participated in Venezuelan Week at Sunway. This event commemorated Venezuela’s Independence Day and a wide selection of cultural activities were held across Kuala Lumpur.
About 40 hospitality students and their lecturers prepared, cooked and served a Venezuelan lunch for guests and media during the opening ceremony under the supervision of Chef Edgar and Chef Mariana.
Chef Edgar Leal and his wife, Mariana Montero De Castro, a French-trained pastry chef held a cooking workshop the day before at the School’s preparation kitchen. Chef Edgar, who studied the culinary arts in New York, is a world-renown celebrity Chef who was the first Venezuelan to prepare a dinner at the James Beard Foundation House in New York City. He owns “Cacao” a restaurant in Miami that specialises in Venezuelan and South American cuisine.
During the opening, guests viewed a unique Photo Exhibition “Holga & Diana” by Vladimir Marcano and Esso Alvarez in which 40 black and white images of nature produced by two low cost cameras, popular during the eighties, were used. A Venezuelan Salsa Band “Pecheche y su Melao” was in attendance and had the audience doing the salsa to the beat of its mesmerizing Latin music. Tourism students of the SHTLM were involved in the planning and organisation of the event. The Opening Ceremony was graced by the Ambassador of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, His Excellency Manuel Antonio Guzman Hernandez.
The finale was a Venezuelan Promotion Lunch at the School’s Dining Room@Sunway restaurant, a fine dining training restaurant. The students served mouth watering Venezuelan favourites such as chicken with arepa chips, rice and black beans, a tasty beef with a mechado sauce, fried plantains (bananas) and a Grand Saman chocolate mousse dome which were all prepared by the students and staff of the SHTLM.
Elizabeth Lee, the Executive Director of Sunway University College said “Through this event today which showcases Venezuelan cuisine, music and art, there will be greater cross-cultural understanding between Malaysia and Venezuela. As an educational institution, we are thrilled to be a platform for cultural exchange among our younger generation and the Venezuelan people”. Hospitality and Tourism students of the SHTLM were awarded marks for their work which will be counted towards their final marks in their programme.
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