The Cookfest - Fundraising Stage 2

If u read the earlier post, you would know that I and a couple of helpful friends went on a huge (its huge to me cos we were all burned out by the end of it) cookfest where we prepared 50 portions of boxed meals to sell to the RCSI Malaysian students and also a few UCD-ians. I actually set a modest target of 40 boxes earlier but when I received about 32 orders from RCSI a day before, I knew I just had to up it to 50.

The boxed meal was a portion of fried rice vermicelli - with sliced chicken, properly sliced very proportionate carrots, not-so symmetrical chinese cabbages and spicy sambal - vegetable fritters and banana fritters for dessert. Grace, Fiona and I did the fried rice vermicelli and banana fritters while Yin Ye did the veg fritters in her own home.. I was actually very amazed at how we could pull this off, and the food actually tasted quite good for my standards, and we all know how high my standards can be when it comes to food..

So the meal deal was priced at 5 Euro. Which was very very worth it if you ask me. I would so totally buy 3 boxes of it and save it for 3 meals, serious! At least that was what I did when some of the malay boys sold nasi lemak to us earlier in d semester. I mean, 5 Euro for Malaysian food, and I dont have to cook but just microwave. couldnt get any better.

Now the best part of this all was I actually got all the ingredients sponsored by Oriental Emporium! Thanks Mr Oriental Emporium. Too bad I didnt get his name, but oh well, I'm sure I can ask him when I go back there to get my stock of asian food aka instant noodles. And seafood. So Grace and I were there, just throwing things into the supermarket trolley and at the end of it all, we showed the trolley to him and the packets of bee hoon were covering everything below it. He never even bothered to see what we took, he just nodded his head and said, "okay, u can pack them up!" Seriously, both of us were stunned at his generosity and we were like, "really? really? omg laupan, thank you so much!!"

here's the OE boss/manager.. (OE sounds like Oeding-Erdel huh?)

So we got like 9 huge packets of beehoon (rice vermicelli), 9 boxes of chicken fillet etc etc that it was so really impossible for 2 ppl to carry them, so I called YY n Fiona to the rescue.. Then on the way we went BK for tea. I didnt eat anything cos I had McDs for lunch..

me at Burger King..

the stuffs we got from OE and bananas

Then the next day which was Sunday, it was all work work work.. and some play in between in the form of Wii.. You should totally see Fiona play wii boxing! Hillarious!! I actually got it on video where she *ahem* lost to some old Mii guy, but I think the file might be too big to upload on Blogger.. oh well I'll check it out later! And we cooked until 2am - I checked it was 6 hours altogether my hob was switched on.. *ouch electricity ouch*

So Jon came over and brought dinner for me, such a sweet guy, and hung around abit and soon became my taster ie. he 'prooftasted' kinda like proofread if u know what i mean, the beehoon. And he kept saying it lacked the oomph taste or not salty enough or too spicy! lol.. I think he's forever gonna be my prooftaster cos he prooftasted my curry puffs too, which will be my Fundraising Stage 3.. Good stuff anyway since he has a very good tongue.. err.. i mean tongue for taste, dont get me wrong!

Fiona on the Wii

why you never see me doing work.. is cos my hair's in a total mess!

i need my yearly straightening routine.. yikes!

garlic girl..

carrot girl

Woke up the next morning and brought them food to RCSI, my first time there. It looked very much like a hospital if you ask me.. Go in entrance, right hand side is reception cum security, left hand side a glass case with those RCSI memorabilia, some seats, further left, hallway with doors and some awesome skeleton paintings on the wall with old-ish looking words, right in front of entrance is lift and staircase.. exactly like a hospital!

waiting for the first years to be done with their paper..

All in all, cookfest was a huge success cos instead of my modest 40 boxes, I managed to up it to 50. Although the return wasnt alot and it was really tiring, it is still something. And I'm glad there are many people who are willing to support my cause..

Thank you so much to all who helped out !