Have a Blessed Christmas

Menu For Hope 4 have so far raised USD90,191.00!!!! More than 29k over from previous year amount. Anyway, Chez Pim had extended this programme thru the weekend. So if you thought you were late but fret not, you can still do it. Please hurry and get your raffle tickets.

May the Joy and Peace of Christmas be with you now and throughout the new year.

Note: The recipes for Snowman and Christmas Tree Shortbread and Gingerbread Star Cookies as depicted will be coming up next.

Menu For Hope 4: 10 Hours To Go

Just a quick update, if you wish to donate and get a raffle ticket, you still can do it! You have about 10 hours to do so. We have raised USD76,110.00 and we are USD15,184.88 over last year's amount!!!!

So please hurry...

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Menu For Hope 4: 3 More Days To Go

Dear readers,

Total raised so far is $43,115.00, quite far from last year's US$62,925.12! You have 3 more days to go to buy your raffle tickets for Menu For Hope 4. Every USD10 will earn you a bid for the prizes and pledges gathered by the international food bloggers.

I'm pretty glad that there were quite a number of bids for the 3 items that I've put up. I did a quick check of the number of bids for them. As of now the count stands at:

AP21 10 Set Dinners from Zuup - 4 bids
AP26 Babe_KL's Homemade Choc Chips Cookies - 8 bids
AP37 RM500 Dining Voucher from Elcerdo - 16 bids

Come on, I'm sure we can do better than this! We are hoping to generate at least 20 bids per item, so please help us feed the children.

To all my friends and readers whom have donated, a simple 'Thank You' would be an understatement for the magnanimity. Being a person who believes in 'paying forward', may you be blessed with abundance and may all your obstacles be pacified so that you will continue this journey for the highest good!

Kindly refer Menu For Hope 4: Prizes and Pledges and Menu For Hope 4: Kick-off for further details.

Related Links:
Asia Pacific prize round-up
Full round-up of prizes worldwide
Donation page at http://www.firstgiving.com/menuforhope4


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Menu For Hope 4: Prizes and Pledges

UPDATED 17 December 2007: Placed the code for Elcerdo

UPDATED 16 December 2007



Prize Code: AP37 (I haven't got the code yet, so hang on there if you wish to bid for this)

I've received another sponsor, YAY!!! Chef Werner made a come back this year with a pledge of RM500 dining voucher at his porcine specialist restaurant Elcerdo. Elcerdo has since moved to a bigger premises offering nose to tail dining experience. An order of roasted suckling pig will bring you good luck by tossing the plate after cutting the pig up with it!

RM500 dining voucher at Elcerdo
43 & 45 Changkat Bukit Bintang
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Review: El Cerdo
Elcerdo Had Moved!


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Finally, I got my codes. Here we go...


Prize Code: AP21

I managed to get Zuup Soup Bar, 1 Utama Shopping Centre, to sponsor 10 dinner sets worth 18+ per set. Now you can bring your family, mom, dad, grand aunt, uncle number 5, great grand uncle number 10, grand niece number 2, and your friends along for a great meal at Zuup! Zuup serves more than just soup - they also offer pasta, fried rice and noodles plus a great range of drinks and desserts. Whilst you're waiting for your meal, why not have a go on their complimentary PS2 consoles? Fun for everyone!



Prize Code: AP26

I'm offering a jarful (1.8l Forvar glass jar from Ikea) of my chocolate chips cookies choked with chocolate chips (I usually doubled the chips). They will come in assorted of almond, hazelnut, walnut, just plain and etc. For those of you who have been expressing your wish to try my goodies, now it's your chance to do so with a cause. This prize is available for self-collection in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia only.

OK at the moment I only manage to have 2 pledges. Watch this space for more *fingers crossed*.

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Menu For Hope 4: Kick-off

I apologise for being late in promoting Menu For Hope 4 this year. Last year, we did very well by raising USD62,925.12 to support the UN World Food Programme. This year, it will be no different. For more information on who is the beneficiary this year, check what is Menu For Hope. It's something like a FAQ.

Due to my limited free time, I only managed to get very little sponsors this year round. Hopefully I will get more to join me in offering something for the cause. Will post that up once I get my prize codes later today.

Please go to Grab Your Fork to check our regional round up. Imagine winning Nigella Lawson Kitchen Utensils set in cream worth AU$160... WOW!!!

Don't forget to drop by Chez Pim for the international round-up of prizes. There are a lot of attractive prizes including a personal tour of elBulli kitchen laboratory at the new Alícia Institute with Ferran Adrià himself, well you'll need to buy your own air ticket though!

You can also browse prizes by region by visiting the regional host blogs:
UK: The Passionate Cook and Cooksister!
Europe: Food Beam
US: West Coast: Rasa Malaysia
US: East Coast: Serious Eats
US: Central: Kalyn's Kitchen
Canada: The Domestic Goddess
Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand: Grab Your Fork
and, last but not least, our special Wine Blog Host: Vinography


To donate:

1. Go to the donation page at http://www.firstgiving.com/menuforhope4

2. Make a donation: each US$10 will give you one raffle ticket toward a prize of your choice. In the 'Personal Message' section in the donation form, please specify which prize or prizes you'd like, using the prize-code and detailing the number of tickets per prize you'd like to purchase. For example, a donation of US$50 can be 2 tickets for AP01 and 3 for AP02

3. For US donors, if your company has agreed to match your charity donation, please remember to tick the box and fill in the information so we may claim the corporate match.

4. Please make sure you tick the box to allow us to see your email address so we may contact you if you win. Your email address will not be shared with anyone.

5. Winners will be announced on Chez Pim in mid-January 2008.

With my hands clasped and brought close to my heart, on behalf of all your beneficiaries, I thank you in advance for your generosity and compassion.

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Cupcakes Topped With Banana Crunch Cereal

Sorry, another quick post to tide things over. Been tremendously overloaded with work and will be in the same situation till the next week, hopefully *keep fingers crossed*

The above cupcakes were made with the basic recipe then topped with my fave Post's Banana Crunch Cereals. Funny that simple topping like this could win my man's heart ;-)

Keep checking here as I've something on for this year's Menu for Hope 4. Yeah it had officially started but I'm still dragging my feet on it! I promised to get it up by tomorrow.

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Review: Kopitiam Tradisional

Updated 20 September 2009: This place has closed.

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Sorry for the long long silence. Been bogged down with work, lots of them with a very tight deadline. So this will be a short and brief post to keep me and this blog going.

One rainy nite, hubby and I got to Leisure Mall for dinner in order not to get drenched. Walked around, no idea what to have so we ended up in a place called Kopitiam Traditional. Yeah the name is just Kopitiam with a TM behind it but how to trademark “kopitiam”??

Anyway, glanced thru the menu and we ordered our food. Since this happened some time back, I can’t really recall what we have ordered and the prices but rest assured it’s very reasonable.

I think hubby had a deep fried chicken set of rice, one whole deep fried chicken thigh and fried egg. The set came with a choice of hot or cold drinks. I stole some bites of the crispy chicken and find the chicken is tasty and loved the sambal that came with it.

Mine is Vietnamese chicken set. Not sure why it’s called Vietnamese when it’s clearly soy sauce chicken haha, nevertheless, it was good.

My rice set came with soy sauce chicken thigh; braised hardboiled egg and tofu in the same soy sauce. I like them all!

Both sets came with a choice of hot or cold drinks. Not bad a place and I don’t mind returning.

Kopitiam Traditional
Level 1, Cheras Leisure Mall,
Taman Segar
(near The Chicken Rice Shop)

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