Black Box Competition 2

Well, Black Box finally ended and we lost at the quarter final to KDU PJ campus.. The result is out, KDU PJ campus was the 1st, KDU PG 2nd, KDU PG 3rd and KDU PG 4th place.. Hey I didn't know that KDU was a great threat to the Apprentice Category.. Haha cool.. Those team who came from Korea and Thailand who has been eliminated, thanks for coming.. XD

There were total of 13 teams who participated in the Apprentice Category (age 21 and below), 5 teams from KDU PG, 1 team from KDU PJ, Korea team, Thai team, Giatmara Kolej 3 teams, CAC PG, and 1 more team I forget the name d.
And for the open category, I forget how many teams have join, if I'm not mistaken, its 28 teams. KDU PG, my college send 2 teams(the lecturers team and mature students team) to participate but both of them lost. The final result was Germany in the 1st place, Hongkong in the 2nd place, 3rd was Shang Singapore and 4th was a team from Penang. Congrats to those teams..

Anyway, many thanks to Jessica Tan Tsu Lin for taking the pictures during the show, she came all the way from KDU after her class to support us! And also those who came to support us, thank you! I appreciate it and believe me, your attendance to the show always make us stronger than usual. Those doods are Wai Hoong, Sim, Rachel, Thomas, Kelvin Tan and etc.. We would like to thank you from the bottom of our heart.. =3

I secretly grab some of Jess's pictures that she uploaded to her facebook and post it here.. shhh, don't tell her ahh.. Check the pictures out;

Meet team Olive, from left Mandy, Gav, Fong and Ben. (Day 1)

Some of our fans would like to take picture with us, so ok la. Chef Darren(our lecturer) in the middle and Jess on the left.

Thai chef (the tall middle) guy grab the vegetables like nobody business. He has advantage in his long arms.

Ben and the oven. He is roasting something.

We have to focus when we do our plating and use a tissue to wipe the unwanted stuff to keep the plate shiny clean.

Hygiene is very important. We wash everything before we do our cutting. We gain marks for this section.

Plating for the soup. Must be done carefully.

The medals and trophies.

The judges. Some of them are local, and some are from other country.

Alright time to plate for the main course. (So day 1 ended and we advance to the quarters)

Picking up ingredients.(Day 2)

Feeling confident for today, so I smile happily.

Ben focusing on his plating again. And thats the appetizer with prawns.

See! I told you theres prawns rite? Yeah.

Thats me garnishing for my soup.

"Carrot Soup" and the middle thing is herb mash potato and prawn.

The spectators got thirsty from the shouting and cheering. They had a free drink at the drink testing corner.

Alright, time to plate for the main course.

This is our main course, fish serve with saute vegies and carrot puree. The sauce, I don't know what is it.

The food is display for spectators to see and to snap pictures.

Oh yeah, this is the reason for us to lose at the quarter finals. =(

Although we have lost, but we already gain something valuable. Something which is worth better than the medals, certs and trophies. Alright thats all for today. Thanks for reading folks. Drop some comment and you will expect a good reply. Have a nice day

Black Box Cooking Competition

Another reason for me being soooo busy is because of this event.. This is a cooking competition organize by Penang Chef Association which is held at PISA on Friday 27/6/08 till 30/6/08. I not sure what time la probably afternoon kua... The rules are all participants are given random ingredients and they are require to pick the finest food and cook for their menu. Its a four people per team consisting of appetizer, soup, main course and dessert. And the scariest part is, there will be a secret ingredient which is a must use in any 2 dish in your menu. The secret ingredient might be.. Apple? Coconut? Durian? Cinnamon stick? And guess what? KDU is sponsoring 4 team of students to compete in the apprentice category and a team of chef lecturers for the open category.
And im in the team with ben, mandy and ah fong. Anyway spectators are allow to step inside the stadium and watch the competitor to cook for free. Come check us out if anyone of you are free kay? I'll be happy to see you guys are there for us hehe..
Wish us luck!

Here's some random pictures that I took during our practice in college. Check it out chicks and dudes ;




















That's all folks! Have a nice day! Hope you enjoy your dinner~

A busy month!

I know I've not being updating for several weeks already but I got good reasons to cover up. Last 2 weeks if I'm not mistaken, my cousins and my aunt visited us from Johor. And my mom instructed me to bake 2 chocolate moist cake for them in a day. Well, it's quite simple if you have a big convectional oven and a powerful mixer but then what we own is the small one, more to like for home cooking machines! Imagine that.. To bake a chocolate moist cake at home ain't easy you know, it take quite some time.

The fastest time I had achieve so far was :
-30 minutes for you to mix everything, eggs flour butter sugar etc etc
-1 hour to bake mixture in the oven.
-10 minutes for the cake to cool down.
-1 hour to apply the topping.
and then how bout washing the dirty equipments? make the topping? garnish? cleaning?
Total 3 hours estimated! and if make 2 that will be longer by an hour.

Dang.. I need a helper at home!!

Neways, my aunt took both cake back to Johor and I'm glad that my aunt and cousins enjoy the cake. That's what a chef should do, delighting their guest with good food. But then they say the cake was kinda sweet. Hm.. I guess I should reduce the sugar next time, every comments make us chef stronger. Thanks!

And then I took my 2 little naughty cousins to Queens Bay and hang around there. We went to Coffee Bean and took some pictures. Check it out ;





After finishing our drink, we went to the cinema to watch Indiana Jones. OMG, that movie is... boh worth watching laa.. Don't watch man, buy pirated DVD go back watch better la.. The main character, Dr Jones is an old guy who uses a whip as a weapon but he only uses it for 1 fighting scene. And the action and comedy part is totally lame. I give it a rating of 5/10.

Latin - Cha cha

I bet everyone heard before latin dances or cha cha rite? Thats rite, thats the dance that I'm learning. I got inspired by my buddy, KX to this dance. All the time in my opinion, I always thought that latin is a dance especially for old people. But after attending the 1st class, it wasn't that bad after all. It is fun to dance around and you gotta shake you hips and straighten your body posture when you move. And it is kinda difficult and it took us 2 months just to perfect it. If you ever watch the television show, "so you think you can dance?" you definitely will be impress by the young dancers especially when they dance latin.
Last wesak day, me and my latin partner, Debbie practice the cha cha. Check it out :

Alrite, time to dance. Posing for the camera before dancing.

Gav, "wei kx you dont take video ar i tell you."
Photographer kx, "yala yala i took picture nia la."

The song started.. and we are concentrating to catch the beat of the song..

Some part of the dancing..

Stopping half way to re-follow the beat again.

Another part of the dancing

Feeling exhausted.. but hey look at Debbie's hair!!! hohoho

Alrite time for a group photo. =3

KX suggest some new moves.

"So you think you can dance?"

Funny Video!

One of my college friend show me this video. Its really very funny when you see the peoples there got freak out when they see a skeleton riding a motorbike talking to them. Hahaha. Go check it out man.

Pot Luck 2 : Twister!

Alrite, as promise I sudah curi sedikit pictures dari tu Hugo. Hahaha thanks Hugo you're the best. Maybe some of you might not know what the heck is Twister, but after you see the pictures then you might have some idea on how the game works. Those who didn't attend the event, you really miss out the fun! Ain't no worries, we definitely have another event like this in the future and make sure you ppk ur dates, ur work, ur appointment and etc la okies? To the picture kids!

Getting ourselves to the specific colors that the referee order.

Tannie is doing break dancing stance! And I think he stepped on Hugo's right hand =D

OMG, look what position Kxin is doing?

We're so into the game and fight till the end. ROAR!

Hugo is having a bad time. Poor guy. But he is enjoying it haha.

Trying to adjust our hands and legs to make our opponent harder to move. In this case, looks like I overdid it. And after this round my back and thigh hurts like hell.

Hugo, "Alright, an opening! I shall defeat you!"
KX, "Shit I let my guard down."

KX, "Lemme win I tell you or i shall pull your hair on you leg."
Hugo, "Oh no!! I'll pass, you evil man."

Look at Tannie, he is having so much fun!

We're all having fun! Wee..

Thanks Wendy for bringing us the game. Alrite peeps, time to go. Take care and don't fall sick okay? Bye bye

Pot Luck event

So, you really think that you can cook? Haha, its an event held at my house organize by KXIN. The event is like children's day where every kids are require to bring a food whether you buy it or you cook it. The people who turn up are Tannie, Wendy, Hugo, Jason, KX and myself. The event was so so only because not many people turn up and the variety of food we have here are not much. BUT THEN HOR... Luckily that Wendy brought us a game so call Twister correct me if I'm wrong and we play it beside the swimming pool. It was quite an interesting game. It can be play up to 6 people, but personally i think 2-3 people are more fun la. What is the game about? Yea, its quite a simple game with a square piece board with a clock's hand and a mat that contains 4 type of color, blue green yellow and red. So the referee will say out the color and the players will require to put their hands or feet on the specific color. Any players that fail to do so or their arms and leg cannot stretch to reach the color will lose lo.

Hugo took lots of the photo when we were playing this game. So i will grab some photo from him and update to here after he upload.
Anyway check out the photos food that me and KX prepare.

OK, this is the conversation I listen from this 2 young guys.. KX was saying, "tannn-biee~~<3<3 do u wanna come over to my house for a candle light dinner tonight?" Tannie said, "Of course darling, make sure no one is at home tonight". Yeeee, mo kui chang liao la..

Egg mayo and deep fried cauliflower with garlic, by KX.

Does this table look familiar to you? yeah, its the snooker table!! have u ever dine on a snooker table before? now u regret for not coming liao hohoho!

Nasi lemak rice by me.

An almost finish Gulai from my mom and me.