Master Baker Pascal Tepper gave SYB students a demostration class on Wednesday May 9th in our baking center. Read more...
Jinjiang Amusement Park is one of the most wonderful memories in Shanghai people's childhood. On Sunday April 22nd, SYB students spent half a day there in a big sunny day for spring outing. Read more...
On Monday April 9th 2012, SYB students were honored to visit Sunflour in Lujiazui, one of the most successful bakery shops in Shanghai. Read more...
On Monday April 2nd 2012, Silliker gave a training course on hygiene & food safety to SYB students at the Baking Centre. Read more...
On Saturday February 25th 2012, the Louveteaux of Shanghai, a branch of the French Club Scout, gathered for a whole afternoon of "speculoos" and cup-cakes baking. Read more...
This Sunday, Brian Tan from HoF generously proposed to make a demonstration for our students in the Lujiazui branch of HoF. He prepared in front of us one of his amazing chocolate brownies! Read more...
What an original birthday party! On Saturday, February 18th, Carmen had a special class for her and her friends to bake her birthday cake and celebrate together. Read more...
On Monday, Shanghai Young Bakers´s (SYB) students, teachers, volunteers and employees gathered to celebrate three occasions: Chung To's birthday (the founder and director of Chi Heng Foundation), the Lantern Festival and the last day of Chinese New Years. 上周一 慈善项目海上青焙坊的学生，教师，志愿者和员工齐聚一堂，庆祝三种场合, 杜聰的生日（智行基金会的创始人和董事)， 元宵节和中国农历年的最后一天。Read more...
Thanks to the Hua Qiao Foundation, we now have a projector for the students' classes and our presentations!
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530 pieces of SYB "Galette des Rois" at the Pudong campus of the French school!
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Last Sunday 18th Dec, the SYB students joined the Family Fun Day organised by Compassion for Migrant Children ( 打工子弟爱心会) for migrant children.
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Today, Friday Dec 9th, SYB was more than happy to welcome a very special guest at our Baking Centre! We had an exceptional charity donation with Noelle Freeman, MISS CALIFORNIA 2011, who is in Shanghai to promote American pistachios’ nutritional and flavor benefits as part of “The Power of Pistachios” campaign tour, designed by the APG (American Pistachio Growers).
On Monday, December 5th, our 3 teachers took the initiative to organize a "SYB alumni" meeting with students from the 4 promotions! Each of us introduced oneself, in a cheerful atmosphere and with many laughters.
It was extremely nice for everyone to share about their own experience, and in particular for this year's students to meet with SYB graduates. We wish to strengthen the solidarity and networking between promotions, and to see new friendships bloom!
On Saturday, Dec 3rd, the French speaking network (Cercle Francophone) organized a Christmas family event, with a show followed by distribution of Christmas presents, drinks and food. Charity NGOs such as SYB, Enfants de Madaifu or Couleur de Chine were there!
Our teachers had baked about 300 very special apple turnovers... Indeed, they were baked with Madaifu's apples, coming from Gansu and Shaanxi... which is Zhang laoshi's hometown! Zhang Zhenghai actually also was initially recommanded to SYB by the ONG Madaifu, and that's what makes these apple turnovers highly symbolic of our partnership with Madaifu!
No need to precise that beyond their symbolic value, they were also absolutely delicious! It's very hard to find apple turnovers in Shanghai; French expats were thrilled and asking for more :)
If you want to learn the recipe, we have scheduled special classes in January for "Galette des rois" and apple turnovers; check it out and register!
BRAVO to the 10 of our students who participated in the FHC bakery competition!
Beyond their performance, the competition was also a great occasion of sharing the passion of food and discovering specialties from all over the world, in the three huge halls of the Pudong New International Exhibition Centre, where the FHC was organized. The students were more excited than ever, hanging around the hundreds of stands, and eager to experiment new recipes and try new ingredients!
We are extremely proud of our Young Bakers; they’ve started their training for only 3 months and were in competition with professional Chefs from luxury hotels, etc. Everyone was simply blown away by the quality of their baguettes, croissants and decorated breads!
SYB GO GO GO!!!
On Saturday 5th and 12th of November, the employees from Roquette (company producing SweetPearl®), who sponsored the renovation of our Baking Centre, had a chance to catch a glimpse of what the SYB programme their company sponsors is like, through teambuilding activity.
During these activities, the bakery lesson is taught by our students themselves, helping them realize how much they've learnt since the beginning of their training, and improving their self-confidence. It was a great moment of sharing for everyone, so excited to discover new recipes, and to bring back home the cookies/bread/cakes they had just baked!
On Sunday 23rd of October, volunteers from Citi Bank gave a lecture on financial management to the SYB students, as part of their life skills training organised by CMC.
The volunteers also got the chance to taste some delicious bread made by the students that week in class!
This Sunday, 800 TeleServices, long-time supporter of Chi Heng Foundation, invited SYB students to join their Employee Family Fun day at the Waterworld of Changfeng Park.
A lot of fun watching the white whale performance, and it was a beautiful day to walk around in the park afterwards.
Chung To, founder & director of Chi Heng Foundation, joined as well – some of the students who had met him when they were younger were very excited to see him again, now that they are SYB students in Shanghai!
Today we took the students to see some of the bakeries selling the products they are currently studying.
From Anfu Lu to Jing An Si, altogether we visited 12 different bakeries!
We had an especially warm welcome at the newly opened Sunflour bakery, where one of our class 1 graduates is currently working.
His tutor, Guo Lifei, has known and supported Shanghai Young Bakers since the very start of the project, and encouraged class 4 students to let this profession help them develop.
Today we took the students to see the Bund together. Everybody was very excited (most of them had never seen anything like it), taking a lot of pictures with their mobile phones.
We also took this opportunity to show them two hotels on the Bund - the Peninsula and the Waldorf Astoria - where some of them will work as bakery interns from October onwards. They were VERY impressed and hoped to be picked to go work there!
On August 4th 2011, the 30 children from the Chiheng summer camp were lucky enough to have a baking lesson by the Shanghai Young Bakers! Professors Wang, Zhang and Xiao had just come back from their semester of training in France and were glad to show to the kids a few of their impressive baking skills.
They then taught them how to bake Chinese pastries, helped by other SYB graduates that had very kindly come back to give a hand for the event. The children baked with great application and were really excited to taste their own creations!
Last Sunday, July 3rd 2011, Shanghai Young Bakers students welcomed 22 Evonik employees in their baking centre to take part in a very special team building, where students taught employees how to make bread!
The event was co-organized with Forget Me Not (FMN), a non-profit organization bringing together the corporate world and underprivileged Chinese through team-building activities.
After ice-breaking games in the morning and a shared lunch, the students carefully looker over the Evonik employees as they were preparing brioche and Viennese bread. The atmosphere was very warm and relaxed and both employees and students had great fun!
Xiao Jin, one of the students, concluded: “one year before, we didn’t know anything about bread, and now we are able to teach to other people and pass on this great tradition and passion!”
On a hot and humid but otherwise beautiful day I got off at the Qilianshan station and began walking to Shanghai Young Baker’s new baking center to watch Master Baker Pascal Tepper give a demonstration for Shanghai Young Bakers, for the second year in a row...
On Sunday March 21st, 2010, students from Shanghai Young Bakers (SYB) went to meet the incredible pastry chef, baker and entrepreneur Brian Tan, founder of the House of Flour. With the purpose of learning how to make one of Tan’s renowned chocolate cakes, the students of SYB also had the opportunity to learn how to effectively use their skills as bakers to build a career.
My name is ZHANG Zhenghai, a student aided by Association Marcel Roux, and I come from a remote village in Baoji city, Shaanxi Province. An accident deprived me mercilessly of paternal love, but a volunteer work connected me with Association Marcel Roux. I should thank...
Hotel, a totally new concept to me. Since the day when I first stepped into Radisson Hotel, I started to have a fresh impression on it...
My name is Wu Yaguang from Zhumadian, Henan province. I’m 22 years old.
I have never been Shanghai before. I just heard about what a fantastic city Shanghai is, but I’ve never seen it with my own eyes. When I joined SYB program, my dream to Shanghai came true...
Last year I heard from one of my good friends that twelve French volunteers who were working in China were running a project called Shanghai Young Bakers which was aimed to help sixteen orphans learn bread-baking technique in order to make them stand on their own feet by their abilities and skills. When I found about that the SYB team was looking for a social educator, I decided to join the project without any hesitation...
Supermarket is a place with endless lines of clients, and for a supermarket like Gubei Carrefour, whose turnover stands out among all the supermarkets in China, attends always to numerous clients.
All of us were led by our teacher to Hotel Sofitel Hyland in the morning. Upon our arrival, there was another teacher leading us into the hall in the hotel. There were guests arriving now and then. Next, the organizer of Shanghai Young Bakers gave a speech. I know clearly that without them I would never have had this opportunity, so I’m very thankful to them...
