As a leader in the culinary education industry, the Towngas Cooking Centre genuinely understand the market's need for professional culinary training and is at the forefront of the cooking trends. In 2014, Towngas Cooking Centre began collaborating with the renowned French Chefs' Association, Institute Disciples Escoffier, bringing Hong Kong its first comprehensive "French IDE Culinary Diploma" programmes – “Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Cuisine”, “Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Pastry”, “Disciples Escoffier Diploma in Bakery” and “Grand Chef Programme”. They marked a significant milestone in the history of the Towngas Cooking Centre, enabling local citizens to pursue their dreams of becoming authentic French chefs. The courses are recognized by the French government, with Michelin-starred or hands-on culinary techniques from world-renowned chefs. Upon completion of the program, graduates will be awarded a diploma issued by the Institut Disciples Escoffier, and a National Certificate administered by the French Ministry of Education. Since its inception, the program has attracted various French cuisine enthusiasts and those aspiring to develop a career in the culinary industry. Towngas Cooking Centre has trained over 400 professional chefs, including numerous celebrities and professionals such as Gigi Leung, Joey Leung, Christine Kuo, Annie Liu and Kathy Yuen.

With the mission to implement the concept of “one-stop-service”, Towngas Cooking Centre expanded the space, covering the entire ninth floor of Lee Theatre since October 2017 to offer an even more comfortable environment and more advanced facilities to cooking lovers. A stunning cooking classroom has been created with the Mia Cucina premium appliances and kitchen cabinets for students to submerge themselves in this professional classic French cuisine training kitchen.

The Towngas Cooking Centre has always been recognised for its well-equipped facilities and remarkable achievements. Through our professional instructors' dedicated teaching methods, demonstrations and their own hands-on practice together with the classes, culinary aficionados can master the secrets of cooking and transform them with their own styles. The Centre also frequently invites local and international reputable chefs to be the star instructors. Besides, the cooking classes are moving with the times. Apart from regular Chinese, Western, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese and other cooking classes, Towngas Cooking Centre has noticed that customers are increasingly seeking practicality and professionalism in recent years. It has launched a series of certificate courses such as The Korean Food Craftsman Cook Certificate Course, Japanese Artisan Cuisine, Professional Italian Cuisine Course and ANBP Korean Pet Nutrition Food Design Entrepreneurship Certificate Course which are all famous among the public.

We published our first cookbook in 1977. Back then, all the recipes for Chinese dishes were solely published in English. Wide recognition on its rich content and graphic illustrations, together with the associated tasting reception which was held at the Towngas Cooking Centre won us considerable acclaim.

Our recipes developed and evolved to become more diverse and inclusive as we entered the 1990s. Not only did we categorise the dishes according to their cooking methods, we also published them in Chinese, English and Pilipino editions, catering to different nationalities. We collaborated with various publishers to launch publications that later gained significant popularity including 「快樂尋味中華名菜」.

Culinary art has never been a privilege or knowledge for adults only. Cooking together is, in fact, an effective way to enhance inter-generational relationships. Towngas Cooking Centre has been organising parents-and-kids classes to cultivate children’s sense of concentration, appreciation and creativity. Besides the frequent culinary classes for parents and their children, through culinary competitions that invite the participation of secondary students in Hong Kong, we nurture an interest in cooking among youngsters to help narrow the generation gap between parents and children, as well as creating a better bonding between teachers and students.

Towngas Cooking Centre has been adding creative elements to the quality service. Aiming at enhancing quality, personality in lifestyle and inspire tasteful culinary ideas, we collaborate with various international brands for the creation of new recipes and the introduction of product demonstration classes.

We understand that hectic city dwellers are usually burdened by enormous work pressure. Those with a myriad of affairs to attend to may discover that preparing delicious meals can be developed into a lifetime hobby that, in return, relaxes their minds in the process. Continuously striving for excellence, the Towngas Cooking Centre introduced an innovative "one-stop-service" concept in 2004 that combines in a venue for culinary enthusiasts the professional training kitchens, spaces where they can purchase ingredients and cookware and a consulting area with reference materials. This one-of-a-kind optimisation in Hong Kong has proved to be invaluable for students during their culinary training.

We have, in the recent years, diversified our activities by stepping outside the kitchen and teaming up with organisations such as Community Chest, Employee Retraining Board, Hong Kong Tourism Board and Department of Health to name a few to launch events related to different culinary theme, health and gastronomic cultures. Radio stations, food companies and restaurants are also named our partners, working together to serve the public through different channels.

Towngas Cooking Centre continues to show our devotion by sharing with members of all ages the fun and fruits of flame cooking through the theme: “Ignite the Passion of Cooking”.