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ADV: Kenny Learns to Cook
KY, Cheesie and I attended the GUINNESS® Gastronomic Workshop hosted by celebrity chef Emmanuel Stroobant.
I must admit that I am completely hopeless when it comes to cooking.
I have been told many times that women find men who knows how to cook sexy and attractive. Case in point, during this year's CLEO 50 Most Eligible Bachelor competition, Bachelor #3 Ebi Kornelis whooped 49 other bachelors' collective asses to top the online polls.
All because he knows how to make ikan bakar!
It's not that I do not know how to cook. I used to cook myself instant noodles all the time. But I dunno why people keep saying that cooking instant noodles is not considered "real" cooking.
What lah, cooking for "real" or "fake one meh?
My mom was not impressed when I told her that I don't wanna learn how to cook.
She insisted that I was being lazy. Instead of learning how to cook, I gave her stupid excuses like how cooking is so damn difficult and how I could accidentally burn the house down if I wasn't careful.
"COOKING IS EASY!" she said. I went on and on about how it's even EASIER to pay someone RM10 to do the same thing, but all that resulted was her rolling her eyes and offering to show me the kitchen.
Too bad. Instead of taking up her offer, I went straight to a CELEBRITY CHEF!
This is the AFC's Chef In Black Emmanuel Stroobant, a man blessed with a body that resembled more like a male fashion model than the master chef of an exclusive fine-dining restaurant in Singapore.
Watching Emmanuel Stroobant demonstrate his cooking skills, I began to doubt my mom's assertion that "COOKING IS EASY!"
Watching Emmanuel did his thing, I thought he looked more like he was building IRONMAN than heating up some tuna.
There were flame throwers, test tubes, precision digital scales among other gadgets more likely to be found in James Bond's arsenal than my mom's kitchen.
Chef in Black making GUINNESS® flavoured sorbet
Emmanuel was very fast. His main target audience are the senior chefs from the big name restaurants in Klang Valley, who attended the workshop to learn how to creatively incorporate GUINNESS® into their cooking. As a beginner with very little experience in the kitchen, I only managed to absorb a small portion of what he had shown us.
The infusion of GUINNESS® in food isn't exactly something new.
The bold, distinctive and signature bittersweet taste of the legendary black beer complements extremely well with either sweet or salty dishes. Although not widely explored before, using GUINNESS® in cooking is quickly gaining popularity. In fact, one of the most popular dishes in Kuching's seafood restaurants are GUINNESS® chicken wings.
The food Emmanuel Strooband created all turned out looking very pretty.
This is the Tuna Tar-Tar Taco With GUINNESS®.
It's a starter dish quite easily prepared with Sashimi-grade tuna, gherkin, shallot, caper, mayonnaise, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, tabasco sauce and GUINNESS® all mixed together and served on a taco.
This is the main course, Kakuni Style Braised Chicken with GUINNESS®, Fresh Herb Risotto and GUINNESS® Poached Oyster.
The dessert dish Emmanuel prepared is called "The Giodness".
It's GUINNESS® jelly, brownies and crumble nicely layered inside a shot glass, then topped with coffee ice-cream and finished with foam. Very yummy!
After the cooking demonstration by Emmanuel, the organizers had a little something up their sleeves for those in attendance. There was a live hands-on cooking session where attendees were chosen to go on stage and duplicate those dishes that the celebrity chef had demonstrated earlier.
Having not slept well the night before, I was secretly praying that they not to pick me because, y'know, I don't wanna be known as the guy responsible for burning Mandarin Oriental down.
Luckily, KY was picked.
Cheesie was also picked.
But in the end, I also kena picked.
ARGHHH!!!
My team mates were the chef from The Apartment and a journalist from The Sun, and we're tasked to prepare the main course.
It was the most difficult dish from the demonstration earlier.
Please lah I don't even know how to cut an onion how am I supposed to cook such a complicated main course!
This was me frantically studying my notes while the master chef from The Apartment showed me HOW TO CUT AN ONION.
Look mom, I'm cutting an onion!
And I'm stirring the pot!
While I cooked the fresh herb risotto, my two other team mates diligently prepared the braised chicken thigh.
They've put together a mixture of water, black pepper, sugar, soy, garlic, ginger, aniseed pod and GUINNESS®. The chicken thigh was baked in it for 20 minutes, then pan-fried and served with a little bit of the mixture as sauce. (E-mail me if anyone is interested in more detailed recipe)
Meanwhile, my risotto was cooked "al dente" (phwoar, first time I use such a canggih word here) and I scooped it onto a round shaper for presentation.
Half an hour later, we presented our masterpiece!
Not bad aye?
Obviously it was nothing compared to the one Emmanuel made earlier, but it was surprisingly very tasty and looked like something I'd pay good money for.
This is me and my team mates, and me flaring my nose as if to take all the credit.
That was my first time cooking a meal fit for fine-dining.
I was overcome with a sense of personal satisfaction as I served my creation to my friends sitting in the front row, and watched as their face changed (and not foam at the mouth or turn green).
It's a weird but wonderful feeling. This must be why so many people enjoy cooking as a hobby. If you're reading this mom, I hope you're happy I took that first step towards cooking. :)
Of course, all credits go to the master chef at The Apartment for guiding me through, and the "Chef In Black" Emmanuel Stroobant for the easy to follow recipe.
And errr... no, I was not grabbing his butt.
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101 Comments:
lol first?
Looked like fun
Posted by: anoN at 12 November 2008 5:25 PM | Link to comment
No, but he was grabbing yours....
Posted by: yum at 12 November 2008 5:27 PM | Link to comment
post the recipe pls
Posted by: folle at 12 November 2008 5:30 PM | Link to comment
Please post the recipe... would love to try it
Posted by: sue at 12 November 2008 5:37 PM | Link to comment
hehe.. thats real nice..
Posted by: didi at 12 November 2008 5:40 PM | Link to comment
Hm, first time posting here...well looks like Kenny Can Cook after all :)
Posted by: jonlee at 12 November 2008 5:55 PM | Link to comment
My god, your salty pig hand on his butt xD
btw, nice event~
cooking is nice!
Posted by: zL at 12 November 2008 5:58 PM | Link to comment
OMG you were grabbing further down past his butt????
Posted by: Bluemonkey at 12 November 2008 6:00 PM | Link to comment
i can't imagine what u could possibly be grabbing besides his butt!
hahha your photos always ended up saboing you..
Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 12 November 2008 6:07 PM | Link to comment
I'm hungry
Posted by: Wah Lau at 12 November 2008 6:15 PM | Link to comment
wah,kenny,u rubbing the ass ahh ? damn fei kei u ..hahaahhaha
Posted by: satish at 12 November 2008 6:24 PM | Link to comment
O u cooked....
Posted by: hapib0y at 12 November 2008 6:25 PM | Link to comment
wow... ur first time and ur already doing some uber dish. lolxxxxx i'm amazed.
i'm gonna go to the kitchen now and hantam one dish. lolx kenny if my kitchen burn i blame u. HAHAHAH
kidding
Posted by: Adrian at 12 November 2008 6:26 PM | Link to comment
eh kenny, it seriously look like ur grabbing his butt. why wud u even place ur hand there. LOL
Posted by: uKen at 12 November 2008 6:54 PM | Link to comment
YOU BOOTY GRABBER
OR SHOULD I SAY GRABBIST
Posted by: frshthzch at 12 November 2008 7:02 PM | Link to comment
BUT IT'S REALLY LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE GRABBING HIS BUTT!
WUAHAHAHAHA.....
Posted by: prue at 12 November 2008 7:06 PM | Link to comment
you all have lots of fun there... so nice...
next time let me joins u all,k?
Posted by: DSvT at 12 November 2008 7:25 PM | Link to comment
i love those foods^^
Posted by: chloe at 12 November 2008 7:31 PM | Link to comment
errr... no offense but the last picture really looked so "gunung brokeback"
Posted by: kcin at 12 November 2008 7:44 PM | Link to comment
definitely thr's sumthin goin wrong back thr! n looks sorta gayishhh~~
Posted by: meLLe at 12 November 2008 7:44 PM | Link to comment
lol..no kenny...you dun only look like grabbing his ass but...both of you is grabbing each other's ass..lol...
Posted by: czf123 at 12 November 2008 8:15 PM | Link to comment
yeah, KY is hot!
Posted by: wilsonphua at 12 November 2008 8:37 PM | Link to comment
Please post the recipe! Thanks!
Posted by: skippetty at 12 November 2008 8:52 PM | Link to comment
lol... you wear glasses?
Posted by: RJ at 12 November 2008 8:54 PM | Link to comment
You sure you're not grabbing his butt???
Posted by: windwalker at 12 November 2008 9:05 PM | Link to comment
Wow, look very delicious and fun~!! n u wearing glasses too... 1st time c. aha
Posted by: Senel at 12 November 2008 9:18 PM | Link to comment
I tot kenny u wud know how to cook since u hv lived in aussie for a long time
Posted by: janice at 12 November 2008 9:40 PM | Link to comment
he looked very happy touching yours ;)
Posted by: Wan Hoe at 12 November 2008 9:49 PM | Link to comment
he is grabbing his butt, isn't he?
See how they look at each other and smile~
Haha!
Posted by: Tian Chad at 12 November 2008 9:57 PM | Link to comment
hey kenny,
can i get the recipe pleaseeeeeeeee:)
thanks!!!!
Posted by: vivian at 12 November 2008 9:57 PM | Link to comment
Wow this is great one , ssummore with KY and cheesie.. owww
Posted by: ahmike at 12 November 2008 9:57 PM | Link to comment
huh.. but kenny u din mention bout the gal holding the beer... She looks Nice lOl...
Posted by: zenria at 12 November 2008 10:54 PM | Link to comment
You were grabbing each other's butt, don't lie!
Posted by: KY at 12 November 2008 11:05 PM | Link to comment
I wouldnt have thought that you were grabbing his butt till you told me...
Posted by: mieulium at 12 November 2008 11:23 PM | Link to comment
Kenny!
You look so guai (ho kia) and cute with the glasses :P not the same Kenny in the last pictures :P
Posted by: SunSeT at 12 November 2008 11:56 PM | Link to comment
you look slimmer with an apron. LOL!!! XD
Posted by: julian sabah at 13 November 2008 12:24 AM | Link to comment
good try!!
i'd never hope to learn to cook..
but now im far away from home and the food is damn exp..
that's the only choice!!
i should probably get some guinness and try to cook with it!! : D
Posted by: huibee at 13 November 2008 12:55 AM | Link to comment
a baby step for u! :)
Posted by: chiiiliyeow at 13 November 2008 1:40 AM | Link to comment
looks so much fun! :D
Posted by: jes at 13 November 2008 2:35 AM | Link to comment
oh ho... you are very kenny sia...
a guy who can cook a decent meal will awe girls definitely....
and a guy who can cook a decent meal (tho pride is sinful) stands proud among other guys who cant cook... (well many would want to kill me after this)
and a guy who can cook, will appreciate his wife's cooking even more (tho he can be critical at times).
and finally, i am talking thru 15 years of experience of cooking and 4 years experience as a husband...
so quickly go start to learn how to cook... and seriously frying eggs and cooking maggi aint cooking.. it is just a child's play.
Posted by: Juanito at 13 November 2008 7:20 AM | Link to comment
you are very wrong... typo.. missed out the wrong there..
Posted by: Juanito at 13 November 2008 7:20 AM | Link to comment
can intro me to this Guinness people, I would love to go to this kind of event to help build up my beer blog...cheers!!!
Posted by: kennhyn at 13 November 2008 7:51 AM | Link to comment
Oh YES YOU ARE!
Posted by: PeeTer at 13 November 2008 8:10 AM | Link to comment
O.o ...who's tht Guiness girl on tht 2nd last pix.? details pls kenny.. *lol
Posted by: baldwin at 13 November 2008 9:13 AM | Link to comment
oh my god the girl holding the tray with the beer is damn pretty!!
Posted by: anon at 13 November 2008 9:19 AM | Link to comment
hey hey hey kenny, why didn't you identify the girl from the last 2 pictures, the girl who gonna serve u drink, omfg she's hot, who is her?
Posted by: aNxie1y at 13 November 2008 10:09 AM | Link to comment
good job kenny!!~
Posted by: eevee at 13 November 2008 10:17 AM | Link to comment
Woaw~! Another plus point you hv thr --> Cooking~! You'll capture lotz of girls/ladies/aunties heart out thr sooner or later, if you reli master the art of cooking~! Hehe.. Gambate~!
Posted by: Silverin at 13 November 2008 10:41 AM | Link to comment
Interesting post, Kenny!
Keep it up!
I like the way this particular post was upbeat, somewhat intimate (with a little anecdote about your cooking history) and entertaining!
:)
P.S. You should really learn to cook. Its really fun.
Posted by: DY at 13 November 2008 10:56 AM | Link to comment
If you don't like cooking because you always burn the food or something, try making food with...RAW FOOD!
http://www.therawchef.com/
See, even a guy who can't cook can make dishes! ;)
Posted by: DY at 13 November 2008 10:57 AM | Link to comment
oh my gosh!! Kenny you were grabbing his butt!!! lol funny xD
Posted by: colby at 13 November 2008 1:20 PM | Link to comment
from the length of your hand, you look more like you are poking into his butt.
Posted by: Jx at 13 November 2008 1:35 PM | Link to comment
Well done kenny :)
Posted by: Ju Ann at 13 November 2008 1:36 PM | Link to comment
I like Emmanuel's t-shirt. Good to see that celebrity chef is also a fan of Mackers. GOOD TIMES!
Posted by: Wendy at 13 November 2008 1:46 PM | Link to comment
Please lah, i know you're not straight
Posted by: Milo at 13 November 2008 2:00 PM | Link to comment
lol man, you wanted to learn to cook,
but you'd rather pay to get a high class chef to teach you how to cook when your own mum could teach you cooking homemade food from the heart
Posted by: - at 13 November 2008 2:10 PM | Link to comment
sweet! you grope his ass ;) haha... forget about email, post the recipe instead.
Posted by: Peter at 13 November 2008 2:11 PM | Link to comment
You sleep in a room with a girl and do nothing..and now...you're grabbing....errr....c'mon la..it's okay to admit... :P
Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 13 November 2008 2:21 PM | Link to comment
nice! how i wish i can cook like that too! =P
Posted by: kenwooi at 13 November 2008 2:24 PM | Link to comment
wtf, so he watches some big shot cook and then cooked ONE dish himself (with 2 other ppl who probably did most of the work) and now you tards consider him a cook?? idiots
Posted by: a cook at 13 November 2008 2:40 PM | Link to comment
You SO were grabbing his butt. LOL.
Posted by: Samantha at 13 November 2008 2:42 PM | Link to comment
and guys, yes cooking is good for getting the ladies just make sure you get the right one who'll appreciate your efforts and not one who'll focus on the one mistake you make and ignore all the rest that turned out well, not to mention your time and effort preparing the meal.
Posted by: a cook at 13 November 2008 2:43 PM | Link to comment
look at that stroobant's face while hittin that thang'!damn he's gay,ill put my money in that;for sure.
Posted by: Alton Brown at 13 November 2008 3:26 PM | Link to comment
Are you sure you're not grabbing his ass Kenny? Cos it really sure seems like it ;P
Posted by: Grace at 13 November 2008 3:32 PM | Link to comment
OMG...one of my friends missed this funtion even he was picked. damn..He must be very A.T. now.
Posted by: Jackal at 13 November 2008 4:26 PM | Link to comment
that babe in the second last photo is sexy, wow! No one ever mention that
Posted by: wilsonphua at 13 November 2008 4:43 PM | Link to comment
He looks gay himself la!
Posted by: I'm A Chicken With No Name. BWAK BWAK BWAK! at 13 November 2008 4:47 PM | Link to comment
omg, you are such a grabber. haha. dangerous.. kiddo :DD
Posted by: ash at 13 November 2008 5:03 PM | Link to comment
You definitely look like you're grabbing...
lol...
The Giodness looks nice.. I wanna try !!
Posted by: Jeff at 13 November 2008 5:21 PM | Link to comment
lol. so obviously u grabbed his arse.. wakaka
man, i think i wanna start learn cooking liao
Posted by: jackson at 13 November 2008 5:24 PM | Link to comment
KY looks so farnay in there lol. he can eat but can he cook?HAHA XD XD XD hes gonna kill me for this.
www.ruionkoh.blogspot.com
Posted by: ruionkoh at 13 November 2008 6:25 PM | Link to comment
i saw kenny jogged or just a brisk walk tis morning, sorry dude, i wanna say hi but my window can't open..hmm..u look fat again dude...sorry
Posted by: ubong at 13 November 2008 7:24 PM | Link to comment
Ha? i didn't know that they picked the guest & have a cooking session on stage.. so fun! i was watching from the backstage behind.. probably i miss it :p
i'm a cook trainee there & i volunteer myself to assist these 2 dudes, get to work with a celebrity chef is a great experience.. not to mention the awesome food they've prepared.
Posted by: Tat Ting at 13 November 2008 7:56 PM | Link to comment
you were 'picked' even before the even started. 3 relatively famous bloggers getting picked, yeah what a coincidence. more of a publicity stunt by organizers and participants than bad luck i say.
Posted by: luke at 13 November 2008 9:30 PM | Link to comment
hi... may i have the recipe pls... i like to cook and that dish looks like a good one to try
Posted by: allan at 13 November 2008 9:48 PM | Link to comment
decent first try for u, kenny
Posted by: Crasher at 13 November 2008 9:51 PM | Link to comment
Kenny,
I'm pretty sure you did.
Don't be shy :)
-Ding
Posted by: Ding at 13 November 2008 9:52 PM | Link to comment
kenny was just slipping some change into his back pocket.. for reasons unknown.. to us!
Posted by: ams at 13 November 2008 10:27 PM | Link to comment
seen this dude in AFC often. he likes to create his own version of recipes from others
Posted by: vkeong at 13 November 2008 10:34 PM | Link to comment
cooking is simple. I can cook and so can u(^^)...Oooo, the last pic is the desert, izit?
Posted by: xjion89 at 13 November 2008 10:49 PM | Link to comment
tagged u! :P
Posted by: chen at 13 November 2008 11:55 PM | Link to comment
Hey that's Anansa (theSun journo)! :)
I miss Nannykins!
Posted by: kimmik82 at 14 November 2008 4:00 AM | Link to comment
tat guy looks like some sort of body builder or wrestler man..wat a cool body he got..and his arm @_@....don look like a chef or whatever....wat a potential talented athlete..
Posted by: Sherman at 14 November 2008 4:55 AM | Link to comment
Hey Kenny, I liked your story. It was so funny- what a 'fish out of water' experience! Cooking for the first time is always difficult. I'm surprised you didn't just go straight for the Guinness- forget cooking it, just drink it!
From Carla
www.carladarling.blogspot.com
Posted by: Carla Darling at 14 November 2008 5:42 AM | Link to comment
TRIED POURING GUINESS INTO MY COOKING...TASTE QUITE OK....
Posted by: vialentino at 14 November 2008 9:37 AM | Link to comment
oh...pig can cook so can u..rofl
Posted by: internet at 14 November 2008 9:48 AM | Link to comment
hi. lol. that last pic really looks like you were grabbing his butt n he yours. definitely interesting. Good thing you've started your first steps towards cooking~ congrats on that.
Posted by: Adil at 14 November 2008 10:04 AM | Link to comment
nice post... i'm also want to learn cooking with guinness.... is that the dishes good for health? can ulser patient eat it?
Posted by: catega at 14 November 2008 10:45 AM | Link to comment
so that's why you were in Singapore. i saw you at Vivo and took pic with you btw.lol.
thanks again! you were real nice
muakmuakmuak
Posted by: hanlyn at 14 November 2008 2:21 PM | Link to comment
first u raba-ed paris hilton at the halloween party..now this? kenny...kenny...tsk tsk tsk XD
Posted by: racoon at 14 November 2008 3:10 PM | Link to comment
Sure or not.. Kenny!!
but ... the satisfied looks on both of you seems to indicate otherwise .. hehe :) :)
Posted by: the Razzler at 14 November 2008 4:10 PM | Link to comment
Nice and tasty looking food
Posted by: JW at 14 November 2008 6:19 PM | Link to comment
ayo!.. Ikan bakar, cut onion my brother oso can lah!! dat sorbet looks so delicious! and looks like fr de pix, dat chef in black is pretty interested in u when u pat his butt! haha
Posted by: linfoong at 14 November 2008 9:27 PM | Link to comment
http://www.ifublog.com/iitomodachi
do u know the cute gal got blog? her blog got many cute pic.
Posted by: comet at 14 November 2008 9:58 PM | Link to comment
man he is FINE (the chef, just in case =P )
Posted by: Mariposa at 15 November 2008 3:21 PM | Link to comment
kenny, is still not late to learn cooking. i always tell my school students, the key to a great food is the heart you put in.
Posted by: LittleLand at 15 November 2008 10:16 PM | Link to comment
Eammanuel's in mid 40's and still looking good!
Posted by: cherrypink at 16 November 2008 1:10 AM | Link to comment
hahahaha, the last picture is "interesting"! :) seems like a very fun event to attend, plus it helps to get u started on cooking.
Posted by: horizon at 16 November 2008 9:50 PM | Link to comment
well cook seem fun sometimes, challenging my creativity .. run from boring day job routines, haha
Posted by: atrix at 17 November 2008 7:21 PM | Link to comment
Kenny, that's a total shame for guys like you. Guys should learn how to cook. If not, then I don't know what is independent self-sufficient anymore..*tsk*tsk*tsk* . Like that how to impress ladies, you tell me? LOL
Posted by: Static Spike at 20 November 2008 12:51 AM | Link to comment
Those are not tacos lah, these are tacos. It's basically a tortilla (Mexican chapati made from corn meal) folded in half.
Posted by: Xenobiologista at 27 November 2008 1:21 PM | Link to comment
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