Five New Chinese Chefs at Ramu

February 11, 2009

NCS recently welcomed five new Chinese chefs to operate the mess at the Ramu NiCo
project that has seen the introduction of delicious, authentic Chinese cuisine to the menu. The arrival of the chefs was much anticipated by the many Chinese nationals employed at the nickel mine’s Basamuk site.

“It’s all about satisfying our customers, and home-style cooking is an important part of achieving this goal. Many of Ramu NiCo’s employees are Chinese, and it has made a huge difference to them to be able to access the various dishes more common to their homeland,” says NCS Raibus Project Manager, Robert Bennetts.

“The presence of the new chefs, who all come from Liaoning province in north China, has resulted in a noticeable change in what we can offer our clients,” add NCS Raibus Catering Coordinator, Sammy Cheng.

“Those whose signature dish was previously vegemite with bread, now have another choice – flowery steamed bun with green salted bean curd, or noodles and homestyle dumplings.”

The new chefs are doing extremely well, particularly since they have had to adapt to the many unfamiliar ingredients found in Papua New Guinea, as well as deal with the difficult language Barriers.

“We are really pleased. The chefs varied skills are being displayed time and time again and, together with our national staff, they have formed an efficiently operating team,” says Robert.

“We are now all looking forward to the opening of the new messing facility at Basamuk.”

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