In the past few years, I have met many WHV friends and many English majors. To tell the truth, all I have seen since I came to New Zealand are engaged in manual labor, without exception. Picking apples, washing vegetables in factories, serving food in restaurants, getting up early to make bread in bakeries, being a stevedore ... not to hurt you, really, are there any exceptions? In fact, language is secondary. The key point is that you just came here and can't integrate into this society at all. You can't work in one place for more than three months, so you must be doing something that the locals don't want to do. Who else will hire you besides manual labor? If you come, you can find a good job, hehe, what can we, the older generation of international students who have spent more than ten years and countless tuition fees do? Of course there is no discrimination. I just want you to be fully prepared for hardship before you come.
Western food, as a short, flat and fast course, is a good way to immigrate quickly. The treatment is hard to say. It depends on the individual. A hundred chefs who graduated from Lan Xiang Technical School may cook the same dish, which may have a hundred flavors. See how much you have learned.
As for any good recommendation, to be honest, what is more realistic than what I said here is that you still have one year to make a field trip after WHV comes.
You can ask me any questions.