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Posted on January 23, 2023
Gourmet Winner" Food Education Board Game Cards Promoting Local Tourism Cuisine Understanding Malaysian Food and Nutrition
Dicky Lee, founder of IFood Expo (front row, second from left), Joyce Wu, founder of MoriZone, and Elaine Choi, Program Manager of the Tourism Department of the State of Sydney, introduce the "Gourmet Winner" food game cards to the guests. (Courtesy of MoriZone)
(Kuala Lumpur, 23 March) As countries around the world are placing more and more emphasis on children's dietary education, and with the vision of food education, O Sentai has an important mission of linking children with food. Therefore, O Sentai has been actively involved in cross-disciplinary efforts to build children's knowledge of food, food archetypes, and nutrition through a variety of experiential activities, and to gradually cultivate the power of choosing food, and to care for the land and the people and things around us.
Because of this passion for food education, and in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), after one year of repeated integration, MoriZone has launched the food education board game "Gourmet Winner", which is based on our food.
Founder of MoriZone, Ms. Hu Jingyi said, "Gourmet Winner" is a food board game with Malaysian specialties, which allows people to enjoy delicious food and have fun, while getting to know more about Malaysian food, its nutrition and combinations.
She pointed out that Gourmet Winner was one of the winning entries in the Sustainable Tourism Project Competition 2023, and that the board game has become another possibility for tourism and food promoters.
She explained that the cards can promote the sustainable development of tourism in the state of Sydney, as travelers will look for local cuisine when they set foot in a country. In this way, the cards enable travelers to have a certain understanding of the cuisine, and even turn it into a handmade souvenir for travelers to bring back to the country to share with their relatives and friends.
"I hope that in the future, I can do a deeper level of food education by documenting the stories of the food culture behind the food, especially the food of my friendly compatriots, and contribute to food education in Malaysia so that these cultural heritages can be passed on."
In terms of the concept of "Food Winner", Hu Jingyi wants to use the most relaxing and playful way to let people reacquaint themselves with the food around them.
He explains that in daily life, people have gradually forgotten the importance of balanced food for the body, and have no special knowledge of food. Therefore, the game deck of "Gourmet Big Winner" continues the concept of food education by gathering the cards that they used to play when they were young, as well as some game play, and presenting the 38 cuisines of various ethnic groups in the form of a game deck.
"As we all know, we are in a multicultural country, apart from Chinese cuisine, there are also Malay and Indian cuisines, which are closely related to our lives, nay we only learn about the cuisines of our own culture."
"Other cuisines are very much worth discovering such as Longtong, Nasi Kerabu, Sambal Tahun, Nasi Ambeng and many more."
She pointed out that up to now, the game decks related to domestic and international games that she has been able to collect within her capacity do not seem to have a more in-depth interpretation of the food in particular, so "Gourmet Winner" presents the ingredients of each of the 38 food items in the form of a game in the hope that it can awaken the public, especially the children to have a deeper understanding of the food, which is the original intention of her creation of the game decks of "Gourmet Winner".
Jingyi Hu (second from right) explains the game to a table of four. (Courtesy of Mori State)
Regarding the nutritional attributes behind the food of the Gourmet Winner game card, Jingyi Hu feels that this is where the game card has its heart in the right place, as each ingredient is marked with a different color on the card, with the different colors representing the nutritional attributes behind the food.
"We can understand through the game that the intake of carbohydrates is highly consumed at each meal and the intake of vegetables is at a very low level."
"The aim of the game is food nutrition, which is also one of the parts of food education, so through the food game cards, people can reacquaint themselves with the nutritional types of food and reflect on how much nutrition is consumed in a day? In this way, it can raise people's awareness of the nutritional types of food, and in turn, they will be more cautious in choosing food, which will lead to the enhancement of personal health awareness, especially among children."
Nasi Ambang, a famous food in Sydney, kicked off the presentation of "Culinary Winner". From left, Dicky Lee, Yilin Tsai and Joyce Wu. (Courtesy of Mori State)
Tourism Malaysia's Project Manager, Elin Chua, believes that the game cards are alive and have graphics that can be turned into a culinary reference.
She hopes that through the game cards, the public will be able to promote the local cuisine, and through the game cards, more foreigners will be able to understand the cuisine and nutritional attributes behind Malaysian food.
The event was supported by Tourism Malaysia, IFOOD Expo and IVege Exp, among others.
Those who are interested in purchasing "Gourmet Winner" can do so at https://forms.gle/h1tsisjrSBDKGxo76.
For details and contents of the game deck, please visit https://osentai2022.wixsite.com/winnerofdelicacies.
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