DACA now with Bar and new Class room
With the new school building DACA get as first Culinary School in the Visayas an professional Bar. This bar is not only used for Bartending courses where we mix famouse Cocktails and international Drinks, Also the always asked Barista Courses are here teached. With 3 different coffee machines and lots of different coffees and teas the Students will get an unique knowledge about all Beverages.
The Demo Kitchen
DACA as first Culinary School in the Visayas with that unique DEMO Kitchen. Equipped with a giant Mirror for monitoring every step of the teacher, with an powerful Aircon to have an area to make finest puff pastries, croissants, creams, mousses and lots of other pastry goods. Equipped with a Projector for Demonstrations, and of course equipped with professional workstations for the students.
The Kitchen
With 8 High preasure Burners, Convection Oven, Grinder, Slicer, Mixer etc etc etc DACA builds up an modern international Kitchen. All made of stainless steel, surrounded by extra hard burned Tiles, that is the layout of our new Kitchen.
The future Chefs work in an Environment like in USA or EUROPE . The advantage is on the hand, when DACA Students working abroad they can easily handle the Kitchen, because they know already all that special equipments.
New School Facilities of DACA-International.
August 8,2011 the Dumaguete Academy for culinary arts was re-open. New international standard school facilities,with modern , more beautiful and comfortable room inside that can student make that easily.
Our new Facilities in Pictures (click the Links for more Information):
First of all the re-opening celebration was start a prayer,then followed by the priest blessing.

Only the best equipments for future DACA Students In our Mirror Kitchen Students will learn proper Knife Skills.
The new kitchen formation is more elegant With an huge Island cooking station, modernest Equipment like Convectomat, Planetary Mixer, Pasta Machine, Blender, Juicer, giant exhaust , etc. etc. .

The teacher’s of DACA is wearing there newly modern uniform in corporate colors.
Visit us in our new Rooms…..
Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts International
Noblefranca Str.
Cor. Rizal Boulevard
Dumaguete City, 6200, Negros Oriental
Mobile: +63-9173009708
Phone: +63 35-4224080
info@daca-international.com
www.daca-international.com
Basic SUSHI, SASHIMI and MAKI – Japanese evening Course
Basic SUSHI, SASHIMI and MAKI – Japanese evening Course
This course is a hands-on class for anyone with love of sushi, Sashimi and Maki . Come as individuals or groups for funny 3 Evenings of japanese food making. Learn how to make cucumber rolls, California rolls, rainbow rolls and spicy tuna hand rolls.
Best part is that you get to enjoy them all at the end of the class.
Please bring your own apron.
included is:
all ingredients
1 T-shirt
course hand out
Provided with top-quality fresh fish and sushi ingredients, Students had the opportunity to interact directly with our sushi chef. After completion of the workshop, participants had a chance to taste authentic sushi freshly prepared by their instructor and them self.
All participants received a certificate of completion signed by the instructors and information about where to buy all the ingredients needed to make authentic-tasting sushi.
August 15 – 17
3 evenings from 6 pm to 9 pm
in the new air-conditioned mirror-kitchen of DACA
5,900.00 PHP only
course starts with a minimum of 5 Participants!
Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts International
Noblefranca Str.
Cor. Rizal Boulevard
Dumaguete City, 6200, Negros Oriental
Mobile: +63-9173009708
Phone: +63 35-4224080
September 5, 2011! START for Batch 4! enrollment ongoing
Working on a cruise ship?
Going abroad?
Travel the world?
Open successful an Business?
Senator Zubiri congratulates Chef Gunter Sanin and Marcel Haessner for their Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts. DACA is a Example for the growing of Dumaguete to an Metro in the Philippines. The Sector of Culinary Arts will grow worldwide by a minimum of 20% within the next years and it will be the Mayor Business for Filipino skilled Professionals that wants to go abroad. Within one Year DACA have the Name of a first Class Education Academy. Hotels are asking for DACA Students for OJT and hiring graduates as Chef because the Hospitality Business likes and needs that international level of Chefs.
Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts offer students a chance to gain professional experience by working with a variety of cooking styles, techniques, and gaining knowledge about different cuisine. From reviewing recipes to developing menus, cooking programs at the Academy make it simple to learn about different methods and apply each principle in a real-life setting.
The Culinary Arts 1, Culinary Arts 2, and Culinary Arts 3 with a European Educational Standard using the Dual- Education System from Germany equipped with highly effective learning methods.
This program allows students to acquire professional, international hands-on competencies in culinary arts.
Culinary Arts one Course Description
The following modules are included in Culinary Arts 1 :
1. Module: Kitchen Job / Workplace Kitchen – 150 hours
2. Module: Food Fundamentals/Simple meal preparation – 90 hours
3. Module: Preparation of egg cookery -60 hours
4. Module: Preparation of salad, vegetables, mushrooms etc. – 80 hours
5. Module: Menu cards and Calculation -100 hours
Total : 480 hours in 12 weeks
| 240 Hours Theoretical Lessons ( Lecture) |
240 Hours Practical Lessons (Laboratory) |
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* Air-Conditioned Class Rooms
* Modern Equipments for Modern Learning * Certified European Chef Instructors * Updated Educational Materials |
* Individual Complete Set of Chef tools
* One-on-One Working Station * Direct Foreign Chef Supervision * Sanitation and Safety * The Only MODERN KITCHEN IN NEGROS ISLAND |
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1.) Learning measures for accident prevention and preparedness for the fire safety (for work with sharp objects, hot liquids, wear shoes with non-slip soles, wearing a chefs trousers, prevention of fire risk, fire behavior, etc.)
2.) Application on the measures of Hygiene and Cleanliness practices in the workplace shall be strictly imposed according to the legal provision provided in their respective areas such as the needs of personal hygiene, good ventilation or the desired temperature, as well as the International Cleaning Standard.
3.) Operation and Maintenance of working-and Kitchen Tools/Equipments circumstances in the kitchen.
4.) Acquisition of the basic knowledge on work-flow in the kitchen and the post breakdown.
5.) Proper waste collection and disposal.
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1.) Selection and evaluation of food (assessing freshness and availability).
2.) To clean , peel and shape vegetables, salads, and potatoes.
3.) Simple dishes of cold kitchen and breakfast kitchen to prepare and on the basis of knowledge of the various vegetable and potato types, different types of cutting.
4.) Preparation of simple meal-eggs and Egg Cookery.
5.) Simple dishes from the warm kitchen in using the different kinds of preparations (blanch, boiling, steaming, poaching, frying, sauteing, grilling, baking, browning, frying, braising, glazing, steaming).
6.) Processing and serving of ready-made meals
7.) Participate in the presentation, such as plating, use of silverware to serving. Knowledge of garnishing as well as typical dining decorations.
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1.) HACCP – Standard measures of Egg Cookery.
2.) Preparation and serving of variety way in poaching eggs.
3.) Preparation and serving of variety dishes in frying eggs.
4.) Preparation and serving of cooking different types of pancakes.
5.) Preparation and serving all types of omelet cooking.
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1.) Preparation and Manufacturing of cold sauces, mayonnaise and dressings.
2.) Prepare and produce raw foods into simple and compound salads.
3.) Vegetables : cooking, steaming, baking, browning and pureeing for soups, stews, dishes, side dishes as well as in separate cooking to preparing of meals.
4.) Cut and shape potatoes and potato products to-use and side dishes of boiled, steamed, pureed, mashed, bound, fried and baked potatoes.
5.) Rice, grains, flakes and semolina and cook for further processing to Soups, inserts and supplements
6.) Preparation of Pasta for side dish and main dishes and cook for further processing.
7.) Legumes as stews and as side dishes to cook and mash.
8.) Clean mushrooms, cook and mash and mushroom dishes.
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1.) Collection and the Writing of a Menu for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Ala Carte at any style of presentation in the application of a Menu Card on each category for any type of food service that will served as the mirror of a restaurant .
2.) Setting of food effects on Festive occasions.
3.) Calculating the selling price based on the raw food cost , material price, and other expenses covered in it.
enroll now…
all inclusive package:
- all ingredients
- all hand outs
- 1 set Chefs Uniform
- 1 Set german Knifes
- all field Trips
- DACA Recipe Almanac ( ca. 800 Recipes)
- Snacks, Lunch
no hidden Cost’s, no hidden fee’s !!!
PHP 98,500.00 only
Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts International
Noblefranca Str.
Cor. Rizal Boulevard
Dumaguete City, 6200, Negros Oriental
Mobile: +63-9173009708
Phone: +63 35-4224080
info@daca-international.com
www.daca-international.com
DACA-International ( Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts)
The DACA is a culinary art school located in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.DACA the culinary school that teaches the variety of food cuisine, especially European cuisine and etc.DACA has the best teacher to teach the student how to prepare food, a world class teaching method. If you want to learn how to cook just enroll DACA right now, and to become the best chef in town…..
The City of Dumaguete is a city in the Philippine province of Negros Oriental. It is the capital, principal seaport, and largest city of the province. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 116,392 people. A person from Dumaguete is called a “Dumagueteño”. The city is nicknamed The City of Gentle People.
European cuisine, or alternatively Western cuisine, is a generalized term collectively referring to the cuisines of Europe and other Western countries. European cuisine or Western cuisine includes that of Europe including (depending on the definition) that of Russia, as well as non-indigenous cuisines of North America, Australasia, Oceania, and Latin America, which derive substantial influence from European settlers in those regions. The term is used by East Asians to contrast with Asian styles of cooking. (This is analogous to Westerners referring collectively to the cuisines of East Asian countries as Asian cuisine.) When used by Westerners, the term may sometimes refer more specifically to cuisine in Europe or continental; in this context, a synonym is Continental cuisine, especially in British English.
The cuisines of Western countries are diverse by themselves, although there are common characteristics that distinguishes Western cooking from cuisines of Asian countries and others. Compared with traditional cooking of Asian countries, for example, meat is more prominent and substantial in serving-size. Steak in particular is a common dish across the West. Similarly to some Asian cuisines, Western cuisines also put substantial emphasis on sauces as condiments, seasonings, or accompaniments (in part due to the difficulty of seasonings penetrating the often larger pieces of meat used in Western cooking). Many dairy products are utilized in the cooking process, except in nouvelle cuisine. Wheat-flour bread has long been the most common sources of starch in this cuisine, along with pasta, dumplings and pastries, although the potato has become a major starch plant in the diet of Europeans and their diaspora since the European colonization of the Americas. Maize is much less common in most European diets than it is in the Americas; however corn meal, or polenta, is a major part of the cuisine of Italy and the Balkans.
DACA is the only culinary school in the visayas that has an international mastered chef teacher, the teacher of DACA is highly experience chef in Europe. They can teach what they experience in cooking style that best in Europe, and promote to make a better chef that can compete to the best of the best chef in the area. They love to share their talent in cooking, that’s why they want to teach thus who want to learn cooking,and have the passion to cook.
Dumaguete is a city in the Philippine province of Negros Oriental. . A person from Dumaguete is called a “Dumagueteño”. The city is nicknamed The City of Gentle People. In this city of gentle people, where DACA is located. European cuisine, or alternatively Western cuisine, is a generalized term collectively referring to the cuisines of Europe and other Western countries. Europe including (depending on the definition) that of Russia, as well as non-indigenous cuisines of North America, Australasia, Oceania, and Latin America, which derive substantial influence from European settlers in those regions. The term is used by East Asians to contrast with Asian styles of cooking. (This is analogous to Westerners referring collectively to the cuisines of East Asian countries as Asian cuisine.) . Maize is much less common in most European diets than it is in the Americas; however corn meal, or polenta, is a major part of the cuisine of Italy and the Balkans that can DACA student learn. DACA is the only culinary school in the visayas that has an international mastered chef teacher, the teacher of DACA is highly experience chef in Europe.
STUDY NOW Culinary Arts, PAY LATER!!!
Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts makes it possible!
again a special Date in the History of DACA.
DACA have its own “Study Now, Pay Later” Program.
In Partnership with Bank of Bacong we offer different installments and payment scheme here in the Heart of the Visayas, Philippines.!!!
we are the only school with:
REAL Foreign Instructors
REAL German education system
REAL imported Ingredients for FREE
REAL imported Knifeset for FREE
INQUIRE NOW !!!!
to be a REAL Chef
Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts International
Noblefranca Str.
Cor. Rizal Boulevard
Dumaguete City, 6200, Negros Oriental
Mobile: +63-9173009708
Phone: +63 35-4224080
info@daca-international.com
www.daca-international.com
Hot Vs Not web directory You can find other related resources in the Culinary Arts Directory
first Batch successful in Culinary Arts OJT
Thats the first Batch Culinary Arts Students
since 1.5 months is the first Batch in On the Job Training (OJT). The Partnerships of Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts is always growing and includes worldwide known Hotels like Hyatt, Hilton, Sofitel, Shangri La, Marco Polo, etc.
The Students Monica and Alex choose the
Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila
CCP Complex Roxas Boulevard , Pasay City , 1300 MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Sofitel Philippine Plaza is a unique luxury hotel in Manila with a resort setting next to the largest convention center and close to theaters, museums, government offices and the Mall of Asia. 5-star accommodation includes 609 rooms and suites boastingof balconies and spectacular views of Manila Bay sunsets. Flagship restaurant Spiral is the dining favorite in the metro, Sunset Bar has nightly cultural shows, 7Pecados features live bands and LeBar offers bistro-lounge-patisserie service.
Alex and Monica started their 500 Hours OJT in October and continue it now, after Culinary Arts 3. Of Course the both get a special treatment, because Executive Chef Marco Rankel is a good Friend and Supporter of Dumaguete Academy for Culinary Arts.
Executive Chef Marco Rankel with our Chefs Monica Diaz and Alex Teves
Both of them cooking on different stations in the Hotel. Manilas most fashionable eatery, Spiral Restaurant, is a concept restaurant with multi-cuisine open cooking stations. Indoor and outdoor environments blend beautifully in the spacious, natural setting.
Special Highlight for Monica within her OJT was an cooking for an private event at the house of the Ambassador of Netherlands.
Karen and Mark decide to go to Shangri La Boracay.
Dramatically situated on a lush hillside within an eco-reserve, Shangri-La’s Boracay Resort and Spa is a spectacular resort offering sensational luxury to its discerning guests. Rich with sprawling grounds and secluded beaches, the resort is a destination all on its own with an impressive variety of restaurants and leisure facilities, including a tranquil spa village.
Choose between Sirena, the cliff top Seafood restaurant for casual, carefree dining or Rima, the intimate Italian dining room hidden amongst the treetops.Enjoy a variety of world cuisine options at the Vintana or Cielo, which offers a casual outdoor setting by the poolside.
Also here in Shangri La our Students loved for their work and knowledge.
Thanks for the Pictures
Great Job Students…DACA is very proud of you!!!
One Weekend in Italy
One weekend in Italy
June 11 & 12, 2011
Saturday
Morning:
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Pasta making and Sauces
- 7 different kind of pasta: 3 colors of Pasta, Tagliatelle, Fettuccine, Spaghetti, Lasagna
- 4 different kind of sauce: Basic Tomato- and Cream sauce and these in delicious varieties
Afternoon:
- Culinary journey to Italy with Chef Gunther Sanin trip from the Alps to Sicilian Island, we will visit the Mediterranean Area with all their specialties and delicatessen.
- Includes Tasting of: Parma ham, salami Milano and Parmesan cheese, Pinot Griggio Wine, Ramazotti spirit etc. etc….
Sunday
Morning:
- Traditional Pana cotta, famous cream dessert from Italy
- Pizza originally baked, so thin and crusty!
Php 2,900 per student(minimum of 5 Person class will start)
DACA offers short courses from one day to a few weeks for small groups who want to expand their knowledge in a specific area of Culinary Arts.
The Chef’s Table Packages are customized lifestyle courses to all culinary enthusiasts!
Noblefranca Str.
Cor. Rizal Boulevard
Dumaguete City, 6200, Negros Oriental
Mobile: +63-9173009708
Phone: +63 35-4224080





































