"It was a welcome distraction from the stress of the examinations," smiled Victor Tan, a second year Diploma in Nursing student at Nilai University College (Nilai UC). "Although the tournament was very near our examinations, the training and eventual competition itself was a good way to de-stress from the revision."

"The most stressful aspect of the competition was the waiting of the results," says Ng Chee Yung, final year Culinary Arts student at Nilai University College (Nilai UC). Three students were handpicked by Nilai UC's School of Hospitality and Tourism's senior lecturer, Chef Nadzri Bin Mohd Alim, to take part in the Taste of Italy cooking competition which was organized by the Italian Trade Commission recently.