Featured on Fête Chinoise: Community Projects and Lucky Trio Golden Beef Stir-Fry...

Happy Lunar New Year 🍊🏮! Sooooo excited to share that I have been featured on Fête Chinoise, a cultural platform that aims to empower individuals to deepen the connection between identity and Chinese culture. Through a curated lens and critical thinking, they present meaningful stories, artful experiences, and inspiring products through different channels.

In this article, I talk about my work projects in the community and share my lucky beef stir-fry recipe developed to ring in the Year of the Golden Ox-- my year! What a great honour 🙏!

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GOLDEN BEEF STIR-FRY WITH THE LUCKY TRIO

This beef stir fry is paired with a lucky trio of ingredients, including lotus roots, black fungus mushrooms and red chilis. It is a lovely dish full of luck for The Year of the Golden Ox!

Check out the recipe!

Cooking For A Cause Fundraiser Success...

Look 👀 at the WowNess from participants who cooked along in my Cook For A Cause virtual Chinese cooking class in the spirit of Chinese New Year and giving back! So impressed with everyone's version of the dishes 👏👏👏, and what a fantastic way to spend a Sunday afternoon 🌷

Success 💥! From conception to execution in just over a week, I had the best time teaching virtually my Cantonese favourites to 18 households! I had childhood friends, ex collegues, friends from abroad (L.A., Curacao Islands, Argentina) and new faces join in on the 2-1/2 hours workshop cooking three delish dishes- Cantonese Chow Mein, Steamed Sticky Rice Pork Ribs and Chinese Egg Tarts Dan Tat! So much fun 🤗🔪🥢!

The proceeds raised from the event will go to support food insecurity and food sharing programs delivered by my incredible collaborative partner chef Steph Lo from Mama Lo's Bakery & Kitchen! Happy to say, the event collectively raised $1.2K 💥🙏! Thank you so much to all who participated!

My schedule is ramping up but if it's manageable I am looking to teach another Asian cooking workshop in a few weeks, so Stay Tuned.

 

Cooking For A Cause- Giving Back with A Chinese Cooking Class...

*Announcing- A Virtual At-Home Cooking Class with Me * 🔪

I have been thinking about teaching an online cooking class and after seeing enthusiastic responses after I posted on it, it all came together rather quickly. Chinese New Year is around the corner, and what better way to honour the new year than sharing my heritage, cooking with you my fave Cantonese cuisine dishes- Cantonese Chow Mein, Steamed Sticky Rice Pork Ribs on Banana Leaves and Chinese Egg Tarts- Dan Tat 🥢! This will be a demo class in which I will go at my own pace although you are free to cook along. Scroll down below to read the details on registering.

The other component to this is what I am most ExCiTed about! Some of you may know of the work I do to support food insecure causes and about my hope to end hunger. In this spirit, I am partnering with a beyond wonderful chef with a heart of gold- Chef Steph Lo. You see, when covid hit it curtailed her business Mama Lo's Bakery&Kitchen. Financially-strapped it didn't deter her from helping others facing food insecurity as she has always been doing (she was running a budget-friendly meal preparation service for low-income families). Lo drove once a week, or whenever possible, to Toronto to give 50 boxes of free food to the homeless, living in encampments throughout the city. She made headlines, when over the holidays through a GoFundMe campaign raised nearly $13,000 to cook 1100 hot Christmas meals for the city's encamped. We are talking about grappling with 90 frozen turkeys!!! And she plans to cook again 1K hot meals for Easter. She continues to cook regularly to serve meals to the needy and in the little spare time she has, is helping as a moderator on the incredible FB forum CareMongering connecting the needy to those who can help and vice versa.

To learn more of my partner's goodwill, read these inspiring articles:

Vaughan chef, who is struggling financially, helps Toronto homeless get nutritious meals.

https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/10274151-vaughan-chef-who-is-struggling-financially-helps-toronto-homeless-get-nutritious-meals

REFLECTION: Vaughan chef makes Christmas ‘brighter’ for the homeless | Toronto.com

https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/10291279-reflection-vaughan-chef-makes-christmas-brighter-for-the-homeless

There is a fee of $25 per person and $5 extra for each additional adult household member joining.

If you wish to contribute more to the cause, we greatly appreciate it but this is entirely optional.

All the proceeds will go to supporting Chef Steph in her food programs!! Click here to register 🌷! 

*For those participating outside of Canada, please note there may be a small extra free for processing.

Once you've paid, kindly send me your email to s5ng@yahoo.com.

I will send you the recipes and Zoom link by the end of day Friday, Feb 5th. Thank you!

Chef Lo cooking during the holidays to feed the homeless.

  

I am so excited to celebrate CNY on a high note of giving back and sharing this wonderful occasion with you 💞! 

I hope to e-see you there!