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october 31 2012 www.newwestnewsleader.com
today we honour 25 people who are helping to forge new westminster’s future. See Page A11
City’s numbers jump 12.7%
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a month into sushi school at central college in new westminster and Brian kim says he’s getting better and faster at making california rolls.
B.C.’s first sushi program in New West Mario bartel
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Brian Kim teaches English to foreign students. But he dreams of sushi. When Kim, 42, was growing up in Korea and then Japan, he aspired to become a sushi chef, but his parents had bigger things in mind. He went to university, and earned a Masters degree in economics. Four years ago, Kim immigrated to Canada and established an online ESL school in Vancouver. He’s also a month into fulfilling his dream, studying to become a sushi
chef at Central College in New Westminster, the first such program registered and accredited in British Columbia by the Private Career Training Institutions Agency. The program was started three years ago by Master sushi chef Don Lee, who saw a need to train sushi chefs to serve the unique tastes of Vancouver sushi lovers. “Canadian sushi is very interesting, it’s different from Japanese sushi,” says Lee. “In Vancouver, sushi is like a fusion, we use a lot of the vegetables like avocados and cucumbers.”
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In Japan, training to become an intamae, or sushi chef, can take up to a decade of training and apprenticeship. The program at Central College lasts a year, split evenly between classroom study and a placement at a sushi restaurant. Students are taught a basic knowledge of Japanese cuisine, including its history and the cultural context of dishes, the safe storing and handling of food, how to use and maintain knives, preparation of sushi rice, Japanese sauces and stocks, techniques for making sushi dishes and their artistic presentation
as well as business management skills. While in Japan sushi is steeped in traditions that have been passed on through generations of chefs, Lee says he encourages his students to be creative because that’s what western customers expect. “In Japan if you have one ingredient you can make one kind of sushi,” says Lee, whose own signature dish is called the “Captain Crunch” roll. “Here, if you have 10 ingredients you can create 100 kinds of sushi.” Please see ‘Here, SuSHI’, A3
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New Westminster’s population grew at nearly double the provincial rate between 2006 and 2011 according to figures released by Statistics Canada last week. The census pegged the city’s growth at 12.7 per cent over those five years jumping from 58,549 residents to 65,976. During that time British Columbia’s population went up by 7.0 per cent to 4.4 million. The 12.7 per cent growth ranked New West third amongst Metro Vancouver municipalities behind Surrey (18.6), and Pitt Meadows (13.5) and ahead of neighbours Coquitlam (10.4), Burnaby (10.1) and Vancouver (4.4). Overall, the region’s growth was 9.3 per cent going from 2.1 million to 2.3 million. The median age of New West was 41.2 years, a shade younger than the B.C. average of 41.9, but slightly older than Metro Vancouver’s median of 40.2. There are 8,835 who are 65-andover, which makes up 13.4 per cent of the city’s population, while at the other end of the age spectrum there are 11,800 who are 19 or younger (17.9 per cent). see tAgALog, A3