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The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Macao & Air Canada Present: Celebrity Chef Dale MacKay’s First Asian Culinary Tour

Macau & Hong Kong
February 24th - March 01st, 2012

 

Canadian Chef Dale MacKay is bringing his world-class skills to Asia for a series of exclusive culinary events. The “Grand Chef Relais & Château” award recipient and inaugural winner of Food Network Canada’s hit TV show Top Chef Canada is excited to be here for the very first time.
 

“Asia is a rich culinary melting pot where cultures and flavours blend to produce some of the most amazing dishes anywhere in the world.  Several of the most popular dishes on my ensemble group restaurant menus are built on complex Asian flavour profiles.  I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to come to Hong Kong and Macau, and work alongside influencers in the Asian food and beverage industry”, says MacKay.  

 
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Macao invited Chef MacKay to begin his culinary tour at the canadafood.hk launch dinner event on February 24. Canadafood.hk is a website/Facebook page/iPhone app marketing platform created by the Consulate General of Canada to enhance consumers shopping and dining experience of Canadian food products in Hong Kong. 
 
As part of the launch, Chef  MacKay will be collaborating with local celebrity chef Leung Man-To for an “East meets West” culinary exchange. Chef Leung will be preparing a nine course Chinese banquet using only the finest Canadian ingredients, while Chef MacKay will be incorporating his own Western culinary twist to a traditional Chinese beef dish on the menu. Chef MacKay will also be performing a cooking demonstration as a highlight.
 
Chef MacKay will also be lending his talents as the judge of the Consulate General of Canada’s upcoming facebook video contest. The contest begins on March 1 and will be extended to Macau via macau.com’s facebook page. The contest, aimed at promoting Canadian food products in Hong Kong/Macau, will invite people to upload their own recipe video to win cash prizes. Details of the contest will be announced at the Feb 24th canadafood.hk launch dinner event. 
 
Chef MacKay’s second culinary stop will be in Macau from Feb 28-29th. He will be hosting a gourmet and wine appreciation evening at Grand Hyatt Macau for VIPs and members of The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Macao. The high-end menu will showcase Chef MacKay’s culinary excellence and presentation of modern French cuisine. And to tie-in with the tastes of home theme, Canadian beef and spot prawns will be the main course on the menu.  Partners include Moët Hennessy Diageo, Grand Hyatt Macau, Angliss, Multipos Fine Foods and Macau Fisherman’s Wharf.  
 
Subsequent to the CanCham Macao welcome dinner, Chef MacKay will team up with Executive Chef Toby Dale at Grand Hyatt Macau to prepare an appreciation dinner for the mezza9 Macau VIPs and loyal customers on Feb 29.

Chef MacKay will return to Vancouver, B.C. on March 1 to prepare for the launch of his new line of private recipe spices, scheduled to launch this summer across Canada.

 

Photo courtesy of:  The Vancouver Sun 

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The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Macao & Air Canada Present: Celebrity Chef Dale MacKay’s First Asian Culinary Tour

Macau & Hong Kong
February 24th - March 01st, 2012

 

Canadian Chef Dale MacKay is bringing his world-class skills to Asia for a series of exclusive culinary events. The “Grand Chef Relais & Château” award recipient and inaugural winner of Food Network Canada’s hit TV show Top Chef Canada is excited to be here for the very first time.
 

“Asia is a rich culinary melting pot where cultures and flavours blend to produce some of the most amazing dishes anywhere in the world.  Several of the most popular dishes on my ensemble group restaurant menus are built on complex Asian flavour profiles.  I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to come to Hong Kong and Macau, and work alongside influencers in the Asian food and beverage industry”, says MacKay.  

 
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Macao invited Chef MacKay to begin his culinary tour at the canadafood.hk launch dinner event on February 24. Canadafood.hk is a website/Facebook page/iPhone app marketing platform created by the Consulate General of Canada to enhance consumers shopping and dining experience of Canadian food products in Hong Kong. 
 
As part of the launch, Chef  MacKay will be collaborating with local celebrity chef Leung Man-To for an “East meets West” culinary exchange. Chef Leung will be preparing a nine course Chinese banquet using only the finest Canadian ingredients, while Chef MacKay will be incorporating his own Western culinary twist to a traditional Chinese beef dish on the menu. Chef MacKay will also be performing a cooking demonstration as a highlight.
 
Chef MacKay will also be lending his talents as the judge of the Consulate General of Canada’s upcoming facebook video contest. The contest begins on March 1 and will be extended to Macau via macau.com’s facebook page. The contest, aimed at promoting Canadian food products in Hong Kong/Macau, will invite people to upload their own recipe video to win cash prizes. Details of the contest will be announced at the Feb 24th canadafood.hk launch dinner event. 
 
Chef MacKay’s second culinary stop will be in Macau from Feb 28-29th. He will be hosting a gourmet and wine appreciation evening at Grand Hyatt Macau for VIPs and members of The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Macao. The high-end menu will showcase Chef MacKay’s culinary excellence and presentation of modern French cuisine. And to tie-in with the tastes of home theme, Canadian beef and spot prawns will be the main course on the menu.  Partners include Moët Hennessy Diageo, Grand Hyatt Macau, Angliss, Multipos Fine Foods and Macau Fisherman’s Wharf.  
 
Subsequent to the CanCham Macao welcome dinner, Chef MacKay will team up with Executive Chef Toby Dale at Grand Hyatt Macau to prepare an appreciation dinner for the mezza9 Macau VIPs and loyal customers on Feb 29.

Chef MacKay will return to Vancouver, B.C. on March 1 to prepare for the launch of his new line of private recipe spices, scheduled to launch this summer across Canada.

 

Photo courtesy of:  The Vancouver Sun 

Bio - Chef Dale MacKay

Macau & Hong Kong
February 24th - March 01st, 2012

 

Father, successful entrepreneur, and national TV star - Dale MacKay has truly done it all. As season one’s winner of the hit TV show Top Chef Canada on Food Network Canada, MacKay captured the nation’s attention with his passion for culinary excellence and quickly became a household name in Canada.   Vancouver Sun/National Post/The Globe & Mail, along with other major Canadian media outlets, have followed his every step post-win, but MacKay’s sterling reputation was established before he became a celebrity chef.  MacKay honed his skills by working kitchen front lines and opening restaurants for top chefs Gordon Ramsay and Daniel Boulud.  
 
 
MacKay is a prairie boy, born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1979. From the time he was 17 years old, he was singularly focused on proving to himself and to his family that he could become a great Canadian chef with his own unique culinary style and voice.  
 
His experience runs a gamut of challenge and profile, from the anonymity of private chefing in Italy, to assuming the title of the Youngest Grand Chef in the World (at age 27, of 160 globally) as Executive Chef of the Five Diamond, Grand Relais & Chateau Lumière, in Vancouver, and most recently to a widely publicized battle for culinary supremacy on Food Network Canada's Top Chef Canada.
 
Ironically, his love affair with kitchens began in Vancouver at a chain diner where he worked briefly as a fry cook.  Soon after, armed only with a fistful of dollars and unbridled enthusiasm, MacKay set off to London, England - with no appointment, no formal culinary training and no resume - to ask Chef Gordon Ramsay for a job in his Chelsea restaurant kitchen.
 
Some seven years, six restaurants and 30,000 hell's kitchen hours later, MacKay had ascended to the top of his field.  As Ramsay's protégé, he'd worked in London at Claridge's Hotel and at the three-Michelin-starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, and in Tokyo at The Conrad Tokyo Hotel. Before returning to Canada, MacKay worked as Executive Sous Chef at the London NYC Hotel, overseeing Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Maze Restaurant, private dining and room service.
 
MacKay moved back to Vancouver, B.C. in 2007 and worked as Executive Chef at Lumière. In December of 2008, MacKay became Executive Chef of both Lumière and db bistro moderne Vancouver (sister to NY Chef Daniel Boulud's db bistro moderne NYC, Miami  and Singapore), and remained there perfecting his craft by applying classical French technique to pacific northwest ingredients, until the restaurants closed their doors in March of 2011.
 
One week later, MacKay announced the May 2011 opening of his first restaurant, ensemble, in Vancouver and one month later, Top Chef Canada began airing on Food Network Canada. 
 
Having consolidated a career's worth of lessons, mistakes, opportunities and successes into the previous 13 years, MacKay knew exactly what he wanted when it was his turn to be a business owner. "My life as a chef and as a single father to my young son Ayden taught me so much of what I need to know about people and opening my own restaurants … that is, surround myself with intensely talented, creative, disciplined, impassioned, authentic people I can trust, and empower them to shine as key players on a successful team.  Finally, lead by example and work harder than anyone else."  On July 4, 2011, MacKay was named Top Chef Canada - the country's first.  And in December 2011, he opened his second restaurant, ensemble Tap.
 
When MacKay is not in the kitchen or managing his two critically-acclaimed restaurants in Vancouver, he and Ayden keep busy doing homework, exploring the city, and visiting family and friends. He is committed to passing his good fortune forward, mentoring young men, and working with aspiring young chefs.
 
 

Past Events

CanCham Members Get a Sneak Peak at The Hengqin New Area

The Hengqin New Area
November 30th, 2011

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce hosted a full day visit to the Hengqin New Area on November 30th, 2011 to get a first hand look at future development plans for the district.

After receiving a warm welcome from government officials, the CanCham delegation visited the Hengqin New Area Exhibition Hall, where they learned more about the Hengqin construction model and watched a planning and exhibition video.

After lunch, members were taken to the Hengqin wind turbines field, which features a giant 50-meter-high turbine capable of producing 30,000 kilowatts of wind power. The wind turbines will provide electricity for Hengqin Island in the future.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the France Macau Business Association will jointly organize another trip in early 2012, this time to Nansha, to learn more about the development of this new port area.

Canadian Armored Vehicle Brand Debuts at Top Marques in Macau

The Venetian Macao
November 24th - November 27th, 2011

Canadian company Conquest Vehicles Inc., marked its official entry into the Chinese marketplace by unveiling its KNIGHT XV at Top Marques Macau 2011, a supercar show hosted at the Venetian Macao November 24th – 27th. The KNIGHT XV is a massive, fully armored luxury SUV that takes nine months to handcraft.

As part of its distribution plan for China, Conquest Vehicles recently signed an exclusive distribution/importing agreement with Beijing-headquartered Taos Auto, as well as a regional agreement with Dalian-based Blossom Group. The company will serve as the retail arm in China’s northeast provinces and plans are underway to open the first Conquest Vehicles retail showroom in Dalian by 2013.

Conquest Vehicles has its headquarters in Toronto, Canada and creates one-of-a-kind vehicles for the security and luxury automotive marketplace.

Halloween Family Fun

The International School of Macao (TIS)
October 28th, 2011

From zombies to Angry Birds and vampire princesses galore, over 200 people invaded the school grounds at The International School of Macao (TIS) on October 28th, 2011 in support of a good cause. The special event was held by the students to raise funds for a cultural and educational trip to Guilin, China.

In addition to fun activities such as bobbing for apples, a cake walk and a haunted house, students also presented a mini-concert in the MPR for their fans. CanCham’s photo booth captured all the “Happy Haunting” moments, offering everyone instant photo prints designed by a TIS faculty member. CanCham also provided scrumptious Macanese treats for the hungry horde and collected more than $1,100 in donations for the traveling students.

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16th Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF)

The Venetian Macao Resort
October 20th - October 23rd, 2011

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, along with fourteen other chambers of commerce and trade promotion institutions, were co-sponsors of the 16th Macau International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF) held at the Venetian Macao Resort on October 20th-23rd, 2011.

The theme for this year was “Cooperation: Key to Business Opportunities”, aimed at promoting Macao as a platform for trade, economic cooperation, and cultural exchanges between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.

Organized by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), the event is the largest annual trade and economic event in Macau. It attracted more than 80,000 visitors from 60 countries and regions last year.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Macao
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Alameda Dr. Carlos d’Assumpcao,
No. 263, Edif. China Civil Plaza,
20 Andar, Macao SAR, China

Phone:+853 2875 7510
Fax:+853 2875 7551
Email:canada@cancham.org.mo

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