Penang Shan Children Home Wish List

Dear all

This is the time of giving & sharing for the people & children of the disadvantage, I will be going to the Penang Shan Children Home on 16 February (3^RD Day of CNY) to donate the sponsor items for them, you can help too. You can donate the items below. You can drop them to my house any time before that. Any items will be good.   

Penang Shan Children’s Home

679D Jalan Mount Erskine,

Tanjong Tokong,

10470 Penang

Tel: 2292186 

h/p: 016-4127711

Items needed

Food

Rice, Can foods, Cereals, Sugar, Milo, Ribena / Juice, Carnation Milk, Packet Fresh Milk with Different Flavours – Small Packet, Condensed Milk

Kitchen Items

Chopping Board Big for cutting chicken, knife for cutting vegetable, Gas Cylinders

Stationeries

Book Racks 3-4 shelves, Recycled Computers, White Board Markers, Permanents Markers, Correction Tapes Oval Brand

Toiletries

Toilet Sprays, Pail Medium, Foot Racks, Dish wash, Garbage Bags Medium – Blue in color

Others

Rubbers Hose 3 Rolls with Connectors, Changkuls for Gardening, Grass Cutter (with Handles), Shieldtox, Flower Pots & Plants for kids to cultivate, trolley with Handle, wheelbarrow, Dining Tables, Recycled Carpets. 

Young chefs wok their magic

Young chefs wok their magic

By ANDREA FILMER

THE air was thick with the whiff of piping hot pasta mingled with anticipation and anxiety.

Side by side, five teams of two aspiring chefs hurried around small gas stoves surrounded by containers of chicken, bacon, sausages, prawns, cockle spats, and a variety of kitchen utensils.

With the allotted 20 minutes almost up, it was not yet time to relax.

A team of two chefs cooking up a storm at their respective station during the competition.

Things went right down to the wire at the Power Chef Competition 2009 finals in KDU College Penang.

Chung Ling High School’s Aun Yi Yang and Goh Yi Zhang slaved right down to the last second with the garnishing, having taken up a most elaborate plan for their conchiglie (pasta shells) carbonara.

The hard work paid off for the pair of 16-year-olds when they walked off as competition champions after the judges announced their decision.

“Compared with the dishes from the other teams, there was obviously a lot more effort put into their presentation which made the food look more appetising,” said Chef Association of Malaysia, Penang Chapter secretary Peter Chan during the judging.

Champions: Goh (left) and Aun posing with the Challenge Shield and their trophies.

Chapter chairman Audee Cheah also noticed the different styles of cooking involved in the dish.

“They took the time to pan-fry some bacon and sausages for the end design and also tried to make a different sauce to drizzle around the pasta,” said Cheah.

A total of 126 upper secondary students from 18 schools in the state participated in the competition orga-nised by KDU College Penang for the second year running.

The number of participants was trimmed down to five teams after four rounds of contest — salad making, open sandwich, cake decoration and fried noodles.

Aun and Goh's winning culinary masterpiece.

Aun and Goh took home RM800 in cash along with the Challenge Shield, trophies, and hampers after besting their 17-year-old competitors: SMK Convent Light Street’s Margaret Chew and Linda Lee, Chung Ling High School’s Tian Hang Shu and Quah Chun Eu, who were awarded second and third place respectively.

The college principal Dr Chong Beng Keok who presented the awards to the winners together with state Tourism, Culture, Arts and Heritage Committee chairman Danny Law Heng Kiang, said the competition was aimed at grooming talented future chefs.

“The competition provides secondary school students who have a great interest and aptitude for the culinary arts an opportunity to showcase their talent and bring their culinary magic to life,” she said.

A Great Loss

Dear chefs & Friends

I was sad to know that this young boy Goh Yi Zhang was taken away so suddenly due to an accident during a dragon boat practice on 17 January 2010. It was a great tragedy & a loss. He have a good potential to become a chef. I have meet him during a power chef competition for secondary school kids. He & his team manage to be the champion for the competition. My condolences to his family & his school.

Audee Cheah
Chairman
Chefs Association of Malaysia, Penang Chapter

Fitting farewell ‘gift’ for avid cook

By PRISCILLA DIELENBERG and WINNIE YEOH

Sombre ceremony: A monk performing funeral rites before Yi Zhang’s coffin, draped in a scouts’ flag, at the Batu Gantong crematorium in Penang yesterday as his schoolmates and scouts troop pay their final respects.

GEORGE TOWN: A recipe book was among offerings cremated with Goh Yi Zhang. In life, the 17-year-old was an avid cook who had even won cooking competitions.

Chung Ling High School senior assistant (student affairs) Yeap Hock Chye, who was one of 10 people to eulogise Yi Zhang, said he was giving the recipe book as an offering so that Yi Zhang would still be able to cook where he was going.

“Yi Zhang had a passion for cooking, and he, along with fellow student Aun Yi Yang, had won first prize in the Power Chef Competition 2009 finals organised by KDU College Penang last April,” he said.

Last journey: Family and friends walking beside the hearse during the funeral procession for Brendon in Penang yesterday.

Besides cooking, Yi Zhang was also one of four troop leaders of the school’s 11th George Town South troop. He was active in the school’s Leo Club, Chess Club and Young Enterprise (YE) programme, and was a peer counsellor.

Yi Zhang was among six people who drowned in the dragon boat tragedy on Sunday. They were among 18 from Chung Ling who went on a training session in a borrowed dragon boat from the Penang Forward Sports Club.

They were preparing for the First Club Crew Championships for Commonwealth Countries scheduled to be held at the Teluk Bahang Dam in July.

They had rowed for 45 minutes before strong waves struck them, resulting in their boat hitting a barge. All of them were thrown overboard but 12 were rescued by passing fishermen.

Yi Zhang’s parents Goh Yeang Tong, 49, and Tan Lee Chin, 48, said they were glad to know that their son’s friends had shared many great moments with him.

“As a father, I am very proud of him. My only wish now is that he is at peace. Our family is very close, and he will always be in our hearts,” said Goh.

Devastating loss: Cheong Hean comforting his wife Nerry Khoo as the casket of their son Brendon was wheeled into the hearse in Penang, yesterday.

The scouts troop also gave their leader a touching farewell where they recited the scouts oath and sang a verse from Taps— the “lights out” bugle call which doubles as a funeral tune.

As the funeral parlour was located next to the crematorium, the troop also led the hearse in a one-hour procession before returning to Batu Gantong.

Earlier, the cortege of another victim, Brendon Yeoh, also aged 17, left the Khoo Kongsi funeral parlour in Bandar Baru Air Itam and headed for the same crematorium.

He was training for the National Junior Karate Championship just before the tragedy,

His coach Lim Lee Lee said she had been training Brendon, who was the bronze medallist in 2008, since he was seven, adding that he was aiming for the gold medal this year.

His father Cheong Hean said the boy was not only outstanding in co-curricular activities but also excelled academically.

Makan Shiok Shiok Food and Fun Fair

Our very own Peter Chan were among the 35 men, women and children who volunteered to 'Go Bald for Charity' at the Makan Shiok Shiok charity food and fun fair held at the Jalan D.S. Ramanathan field. Participants get their heads shaved to raise funds for Penang Adventist Hospital's Dr. J. Earl Gardner Fund for poor patients. The campaign itself managed to garner over RM50,000 in donations. Over 30 participants entered the campaign.There were vegetarian and non-vegetarian stalls, a lucky draw and game stalls. Chef Association Malaysia Penang Chapter had a stall serving breakfast set, spaghetti and drinks! Kudos to all the Chefs which participated in this charity event!!!

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CAM Penang Family Day 2009

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This Family Day is open to all members of Chefs Association of Malaysia, Penang Chapter, immediate family members and Associates / Corporate Members only. First come first serve basic.

The crew of each family must consist of at least two (2) and not more than four (4) persons. All participants must complete, sign and submit the Official Entry & Indemnity Form before the event.

All entries must be made on the Official Entry & Indemnity Form provided by CAM,Pg. chapter and will be limited to only 100 members & family only. Closing date: All entries form must reach Our Club House ~ Secretariat (Ms Ooi ~ penangchefs@gmail.com ~ Tel/Fax 04-226 8659) before or on the 09th of OCT 2009, before 5pm.

Free for all active member & immediate family only & RM150 each for non-member.

Benefits & Features Entitlement for participant
Morning refreshment , Supreme International Buffet Lunch, refreshment pack, free theme Park entries fees, door gift, souvenir, lucky draw, t shirt etc…