Academy of Pastry Arts Malaysia

I've enrolled myself in this fine academy to learn how to bake pastry and goodies. Apart from its fineness, they also have a staff of foreign staffs and some very good chefs scoured from the West. Its so odd that the owner happens to be an Indian national no less.

I took the 3 month basic course, well because plus I want to get away from the country before my birthday arrives. The last place on earth I want to celebrate my birthday is away from my husband. We spent too many years apart already I hate being away from him

The theory class was good, we were given 3 sets of uniforms, 2 aprons, a pair of safety shoes (which is really the cheapest they got for us, when they could have gotten better ranges for us like the ones with metal tip to stand knife fall) and thick file of papers containing work place safety, hygiene practices and food preparation practices in culinary and pastry art. Everyone were aptly brainwashed about the filthiness of mamak food and that lasted till this Monday when everyone scurried to wash their hands before classes started and on Tuesday a handful of them were queuing up to wash hands and by Thursday no one was washing their hands anymore.

The institute promised to have no more than 12 students per class but most of the pasry chefs have gone to Singapore for a competition and won't be back till next week so this week all 17 of us were crammed with a single bread chef from France who not only had to cope with us but also an annoying banshee in class

So next week I will have to push the management to keep to their promise to reduce the size of students per class or extend our course until the chefs get back from their rendezvous

 Baguette Bread

 Milk bread/Pleated bread

Soft Roll

Pleated Bread

Soft Roll

Soft roll, the chef expreimented with sour cream and cheese topping which failed to stay so it bubbled, burst and rolled everywhere on the tray

Pizza from leftover dough

Soda bread, baguette, soft roll and pizza cubes 

Raisin bread and pleated milk bread added to the presentation

Focaccia, rye and multigrain bread

Pizza day!

Pizza toppings

 Pizza going into the oven

Naan bread

Rye bread

Soft crust pizza

Thin crust pizza

The disadvantages of this place is that the water always run out at other basins and faucets when one faucet is turned up to maximum. The women's loo doesn't flush and the basin pipe has no running water at all, so from 2 loos only one is in working condition and that one too has no soap in the dispenser so we have to take one flight of stairs down to another basin with soap dispenser and wash our hands there

The items are well used and the machines are aging. Some of the machines no longer work or some part of it is faulty. Its cheaper to just use them until they war out than to fix them because they're cheap China imports. The ingredients seem reasonable,they aren't that cheap; kind of at an acceptable level