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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lol first?
Looked like fun
No, but he was grabbing yours….
post the recipe pls
Please post the recipe… would love to try it
hehe.. thats real nice..
Hm, first time posting here…well looks like Kenny Can Cook after all 🙂
My god, your salty pig hand on his butt xD
btw, nice event~
cooking is nice!
OMG you were grabbing further down past his butt????
i can’t imagine what u could possibly be grabbing besides his butt!
hahha your photos always ended up saboing you..
I’m hungry
wah,kenny,u rubbing the ass ahh ? damn fei kei u ..hahaahhaha
O u cooked….
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
eh kenny, it seriously look like ur grabbing his butt. why wud u even place ur hand there. LOL
YOU BOOTY GRABBER
OR SHOULD I SAY GRABBIST
BUT IT’S REALLY LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE GRABBING HIS BUTT!
WUAHAHAHAHA…..
you all have lots of fun there… so nice…
next time let me joins u all,k?
i love those foods^^
errr… no offense but the last picture really looked so “gunung brokeback”
definitely thr’s sumthin goin wrong back thr! n looks sorta gayishhh~~
lol..no kenny…you dun only look like grabbing his ass but…both of you is grabbing each other’s ass..lol…
yeah, KY is hot!
Please post the recipe! Thanks!
lol… you wear glasses?
You sure you’re not grabbing his butt???
Wow, look very delicious and fun~!! n u wearing glasses too… 1st time c. aha
I tot kenny u wud know how to cook since u hv lived in aussie for a long time
he looked very happy touching yours 😉
he is grabbing his butt, isn’t he?
See how they look at each other and smile~
Haha!
hey kenny,
can i get the recipe pleaseeeeeeeee:)
thanks!!!!
Wow this is great one , ssummore with KY and cheesie.. owww
huh.. but kenny u din mention bout the gal holding the beer… She looks Nice lOl…
You were grabbing each other’s butt, don’t lie!
I wouldnt have thought that you were grabbing his butt till you told me…
Kenny!
You look so guai (ho kia) and cute with the glasses 😛 not the same Kenny in the last pictures 😛
you look slimmer with an apron. LOL!!! XD
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
a baby step for u! 🙂
looks so much fun! 😀
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.
you are very wrong… typo.. missed out the wrong there..
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!!!
Oh YES YOU ARE!
O.o …who’s tht Guiness girl on tht 2nd last pix.? details pls kenny.. *lol
oh my god the girl holding the tray with the beer is damn pretty!!
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?
good job kenny!!~
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~!
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.
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! 😉
oh my gosh!! Kenny you were grabbing his butt!!! lol funny xD
from the length of your hand, you look more like you are poking into his butt.
Well done kenny 🙂
I like Emmanuel’s t-shirt. Good to see that celebrity chef is also a fan of Mackers. GOOD TIMES!
Please lah, i know you’re not straight
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
sweet! you grope his ass 😉 haha… forget about email, post the recipe instead.
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… 😛
nice! how i wish i can cook like that too! =P
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
You SO were grabbing his butt. LOL.
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.
look at that stroobant’s face while hittin that thang’!damn he’s gay,ill put my money in that;for sure.
Are you sure you’re not grabbing his ass Kenny? Cos it really sure seems like it ;P
OMG…one of my friends missed this funtion even he was picked. damn..He must be very A.T. now.
that babe in the second last photo is sexy, wow! No one ever mention that
He looks gay himself la!
omg, you are such a grabber. haha. dangerous.. kiddo :DD
You definitely look like you’re grabbing…
lol…
The Giodness looks nice.. I wanna try !!
lol. so obviously u grabbed his arse.. wakaka
man, i think i wanna start learn cooking liao
KY looks so farnay in there lol. he can eat but can he cook?HAHA XD XD XD hes gonna kill me for this.
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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
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.
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.
hi… may i have the recipe pls… i like to cook and that dish looks like a good one to try
decent first try for u, kenny
Kenny,
I’m pretty sure you did.
Don’t be shy 🙂
-Ding
kenny was just slipping some change into his back pocket.. for reasons unknown.. to us!
seen this dude in AFC often. he likes to create his own version of recipes from others
cooking is simple. I can cook and so can u(^^)…Oooo, the last pic is the desert, izit?
tagged u! 😛
Hey that’s Anansa (theSun journo)! 🙂
I miss Nannykins!
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..
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
http://www.carladarling.blogspot.com
TRIED POURING GUINESS INTO MY COOKING…TASTE QUITE OK….
oh…pig can cook so can u..rofl
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.
nice post… i’m also want to learn cooking with guinness…. is that the dishes good for health? can ulser patient eat it?
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
first u raba-ed paris hilton at the halloween party..now this? kenny…kenny…tsk tsk tsk XD
Sure or not.. Kenny!!
but … the satisfied looks on both of you seems to indicate otherwise .. hehe 🙂 🙂
Nice and tasty looking food
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
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do u know the cute gal got blog? her blog got many cute pic.
man he is FINE (the chef, just in case =P )
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.
Eammanuel’s in mid 40’s and still looking good!
hahahaha, the last picture is “interesting”! 🙂 seems like a very fun event to attend, plus it helps to get u started on cooking.
well cook seem fun sometimes, challenging my creativity .. run from boring day job routines, haha
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
Those are not tacos lah, these are tacos. It’s basically a tortilla (Mexican chapati made from corn meal) folded in half.