Tamara started her F&B career at the young age of 13 years old where she learned the ropes in the dingy depths at the back of a restaurant kitchen doing dishes and practicing her knife skills for 7-8 hours every Saturday and Sunday, chopping and slicing - filling 50 pound bus-pans with perfectly measured carrot/celery sticks, tomato wedges and onion slices - rolling 10 pounds of grated cheddar and mozzarella cheese into 1 ounce balls - basically doing all the jobs that the 'real' prep person hated doing!

Mastering the jobs at hand, Tamara quickly progressed through the kitchen ranks and was even allowed to venture into the front house to work as a hostess and server/bartender. Over the years she excelled at all positions in both front and back of house and in her early 20's was promoted to supervisor, mobile catering manager, Kitchen manager and ultimately to Corporate Trainer before leaving Canada to come to Hong Kong at 28 years old. Her skills and expertise in F&B continued to be an essential part of Tamara's business, Vivid Vibrations, formed almost 20 years ago, with quality hospitality and customer service being very important to all her offerings - from cooking classes, creative and corporate training events, small scale personalised catering and F&B consulting and training.