Your team-building efforts will be super effective if you find the right team building activity. The Amazing Race and Cook-Off Challenge will help increase teamwork, encourages efficiency, improves productivity and more. If you want your team members to work well together, you'll need to show leadership, encourage collaboration, work toward common goals, celebrate diversity and invest in events for building effective teams. Read on to learn how you can build effective teams in our team cooking.

Experience the highlight of Victoria Street with Asian foods in this fun and unique team-building activity. This team cooking challenge is designed as a hybrid it uses the same theme with the popular Amazing race TV. This will suit a variety of event styles where you want your team to have some great fun plus some challenges along the way.

Teams will then have to work together or nominate a leader to perform an activity or task designed to test their teamwork, communication and decision making in order to receive the clue to their next location. With our version, teams of 2-3-4 or 10 people will make their way to Victoria street grocer, meat, kitchen or fish stores to find a secret ingredient challenges. They will take photos of the ingredients. They race to finish as the number one team.

They will then complete the 2nd challenge with cooking with the chosen menu. Our chef will judge teams to award the most authentic, tasty, well present dish.  Victoria Street Richmond is famous for Vietnamese foods so naturally, we do Vietnamese food however we can work on Korean or Chinese menus.

HIGHLIGHTS

• New cooking challenge format with amazing race.
• Explore the fundamentals of ingredients, spices and flavor profile
• Create a delicious meal to your palette then enjoy with complimentary beer and wine
• Listen to cooking tips and tricks and recreate the dishes at home with online recipes
• Access to exclusive use of our venue, indoor and outdoor function spaces available
• Our classes are for all level of experience and everyone get in to win!
• A chef is there to help you! 

AHEAD OF THE CHALLENGE

• Confirm preferred cuisine Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese. 

FIRST HOUR

• Welcome to the team. 
• Health and safety instructions.
• Teams to be divided into as many teams fitting up to 5 benches
• Explain Amazing Race logistics and teams exploring Victoria Street vibrant shops to find their secrete ingredients for their cook off.

NEXT 1-1.5 HOUR

• Once the teams are back to the kitchen, record their arrival time and proof of sabotage mission.
• We will offer refreshments
• Brief the teams on the next steps
• Cooking demonstration of the chosen cuisine
• Identify and demonstrate how to use the chosen ingredient(s) in the dishes
• Teams go back to their benches to replicate and enhance the dishes
• Teams need to prepare an extra portion of the dish for judging and handover to the chef for later judging.

FOLLOWING 30 MINUTES

• Team enjoy their meals with drinks
• Judging session and award presentation
• End of challenge

BOOKING TERMS

• A minimum charge of $1,650 is applied to all group and venue bookings. If your group number falls below the minimum spend, the minimum spend is applied. 
• A deposit of 10 seats or 50%, whatever is greater, is required to confirm your booking. Payment may be made via credit or debit card, cash or invoice. Full payment is required at the event booking time, within 14-day of the event date. The balance is due 14 days before the event upon confirmation of the guest number and their dietary requirements. 
• If cancellation is made with more than 14-day notice, we will refund 50% of your deposit. For a cancellation is made within 14 days, no refund will take effect, and you will have to pay for the minimum spend. If your group voluntarily leave or does not show up to the event on the day, no refund will take effect.
• Final numbers and dietary requirements for your session must be confirmed no later than 14-day prior to the start time of the cookery session in order to give us enough time to pre-order the necessary ingredients and staff.
  
• If you would like to increase the number of participants after this time, please email us at hello@otaokitchen.com.au to discuss this, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

• Email hello@otaokitchen.com.au or call chef Ha Nguyen 0408 217 899 for available date/time and obligation free quote today. 

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