Chef Poon Event

I attended Master Chef Joseph Poon’s Cooking Demonstration event during lunch, on March 30, 2010. Chef Poon started off by introducing himself to everyone in his audience. He is known for his Asian food cuisine. He puts his mind and concentration into preparing every dish with a splash of creativity. He gave us a quote to live by that he does every day, "Learn from your teacher, learn from your friends, and most importantly learn from yourself." He is a friendly, hardworking, and adventurous man and his spontaneous and exciting personality has earned him appearances on many television shows, magazines, and newspapers such as, “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, The Restaurant Report, and The New York Times. He has also recently published his inspirational, autobiographical cookbook called Life is Short...Cooking is Fun.




After introducing himself, he showed the audience how he would be making ten dishes out of one chicken in less than an hour as his challenge. Of course he conquered it. He told us to pay secure attention as he prepared those ten dishes because he wanted to teach us the easiest and quickest way of cooking. The ten dishes he made were chicken congee, chicken broth soup with ginger, mushrooms, and sliced scallion, four dishes of General Tso’s chicken each having a different homemade sauce, chicken kebab, chicken wing salad, deep fried chicken, and spicy chicken with a spicy homemade sauce. Which to my advantage was Gluten Free. He said that a lot of his foods that he prepares is GF. :) He showed us step by step how to prepare and cook those ten dishes and discussed the ingredients that we would need. A person will need several ingredients such as, chili peppers, soy sauce, sesame oil, rice, eggs, mushrooms, etc. in order to make those ten dishes, but once he or she has got the ingredients, he or she will be all set. He told us was that he had always prepared and cooked all of his food with care and love. He connected the relationship of food and eating with a sign of caring and of loving communication just as it was mentioned in the book Through the Kitchen Window.