Ken’s Food and Life

Almost one and half months have passed since I last updated my blog. The month of May is full of activities, there is labour day, vesak day and mothers’ day for Malaysian at least.

End of April I went to the Food and Hotel Asia 2006 expo in Singapore Expo centre. It was my first time in such a big commercial exhibition. It was an eye-opener in terms of food, equipments and people. For 2 and half days I explored the 7 halls full of exhibits. I did lots of tasting as well. I think I need to put up a single post just for the event.

I was there til labour day. It was a fun trip, caught up with many friends that I used to know in Melbourne and have not seen them for a while. The only disappointment is that I did not manage to visit "Xi Yan", an Asian fusion restaurant operate by some HK restaurantuer in Sg.

As soon as I got back, there is the big catering event. Caterer for 200 per day  over 3 days for the opening and Vesak celebration of Losang Dragpa Centre in KL. I was a major event for me especially I have not caterer for so many ppl at a distance for a while. The last time I did such a big event was a housewarming for 600 ppl. I had lots of helper for that one. The hardest thing about this one is cokking is done remotely and there is lots of logistic and coordination required. Glad in all went smoothly. I am also proud that there is minimal wastage especially on the first day when all the food was finished. I will be posting up pictures on this soon. been too busy to do so.

There was another catering for last weekend for 40. It went smoothly except it started late and some of my food looks dull after staying in the food warmer for so long. But the good news is majority of the guest are from Sg and one of them even said, "This is the best vegetarian meal I have had since been here (KL) for a week."

If things go on like this, I think Om will be running by itself in no time. I guess I have to start preparing for my next venture… cooking class