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CUCKOO CHALLENGE Whisking it all as they competed for the top spot in the Cuckoo Cooking Contest aimed at finding Brunei’s ultimate home cook – the One City Shopping Complex played host to an event that saw large crowds gather to watch on the evening of June 27, 2021. The home chefs, restaurant chefs, and culinary students making up the 10 contestants went head-tohead as they prepared their own personal renditions of a standard Malay chicken dish.
With an array of ingredients, utensils, and a Cuckoo Q10 MultiPressure Cooker provided by the organisers, it all boiled down to contestants having 2 hours to whip up a delectable meal that was scrutinised in accordance to its taste, presentation, and overall uniqueness. With a panel consisting of popular food bloggers Thanis Lim, and Gzul Yusof, as well as Cuckoo Chef Nurrul Nadirah binti Fadzil, the judges were tough nuts to
The Altered Ego Exhibition
crack, so the contestants came with their A-game. The contest began with each contestant being invited up to the ingredient table where they had 5-minutes only to make their selections. Once everyone was set and raring to go, the challenge commenced in earnest. During the idle cooking period, all the contestants then watched a cooking demonstration by
“While showing a different side to one’s self or when doing something you’ve never done before, it doesn’t necessarily have to be in the best light possible.” The Altered Ego art exhibition, housed at the new Curated Gallery Studio Space, does exactly what it says it’ll do (and better) in a myriad of art installations, paintings and photographs gathered from a selection of 17 creatives ranging from pioneers to new faces. Specially curated by Azim Kadri from The Collective, Khairol Sharifkhan Hj Khalidkhan and David James Lee Tseen Zhong, the official opening ceremony on 25 June was a visual delight for invited guests, ambassadors, foreign dignitaries, corporate representatives, art enthusiasts and
Gzul Yusof who taught those present how to create a simple No-Bake Cheesecake using the 10in-1 appliances that makes up the Klear Mastercook. Immediately afterwards came the moment of truth as announcements were made against a backdrop of cheering. Cuckoo’s Marketing Director, Wong Hui Ting, presented the grand prize of a Klear Mastercook to the winner, Nur Asilah Hj Omar, who had prepared Ayam Masak Kari Kicap (chicken cooked in a soysaucecurry marinade). Consolation prizes comprising Cuckoo kitchen merchandise were presented to the remaining contestants. Now, dinner is served.
members of the media. We chatted with Izzat Zafirah, known in the burgeoning local art scene by her Instagram handle, Chipzat, who spoke of her fluorescent textured mixed-media installation “Pain in Pink” which had children’s toys embedded in its entirety, as an inner representation of the pains of life and reverting back to safer childhood memories. We also got to know fresh-faced modern digital illustrator, Charmaine Lim, who had her macabre digital piece “Ministers of some sort in the next universe” electronically displayed at the exhibition (her first of more to come, we hope!). With plenty to see, take in and talk about, the nine-day exhibition does not disappoint, with guests leaving just a little bit more in touch with what the local art scene has to offer.
Get updates on upcoming exhibitions and events held at the Curated Gallery Studio Space by following @thecollectiveartevents
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