Asian Culinary Arts Certificate at Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, Canada is a certificate in Arts, Design & Architecture programme. The programme runs for 5 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 22,770 per total (CAD 7,100 per total for local students).
The certificate trains students for entry-level cooking roles across Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Singaporean, Chinese, and fusion cuisines. Coursework covers sanitation, health, and safety practices; use of kitchen equipment and utensils; the principles and history behind these Asian culinary traditions; knife skills; and marinating, seasoning, cutting, and preparing poultry, seafood, and meat. Cooking methods studied include braising, steaming, and stir frying, along with deep frying.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: English is demonstrated by any Grade 10 English course or equivalent, English Language Proficiency at an English 10 level, or department approval; Mathematics needs any Grade 10 course or equivalent, or department approval. No IELTS, TOEFL, PTE, Duolingo or CAEL score is stated. Once accepted, students must hold a valid BC Food Safe Level 1 Certificate, kept valid throughout the program, be physically able to handle seafood, meat, poultry, game and dairy products and their by-products, and disclose any known food allergy. General conditions apply: Canadian citizen or permanent resident (international applicants go through VCC International), aged 16 or older or a secondary-school graduate, official transcripts and other required documents submitted, and a complete application with the form, prerequisite evidence, supporting documents and the required fee or deposit paid.
Application Details
Start Date:September intake. VCC's academic year runs in three terms: Winter (January to April), Spring/Summer (May to August) and Fall (September to December).
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through EducationPlannerBC. VCC publishes this programme's windows term by term on its When to Apply page: Fall 2027 entry (September start) — open 1 October 2026, close 1 July 2027. Seats go to eligible applicants in the order their applications are completed, so the programme can close before the listed end date once it fills. VCC flags this programme as one that still accepts late applications after the close date. VCC's page for this programme states it is open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, and points international students to VCC International, which lists separately the programmes and intakes open to them; there the application periods open on 1 February, 1 June and 1 October of the previous year for the Winter, Spring/Summer and Fall terms, with no fixed closing date — a programme accepts applications until roughly three to four months before classes begin, or until its seats are gone.
