Quay Po Cooks: One Lovely Blog Award

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

One Lovely Blog Award

This evening I received an email from my foodie friend, Elisabeth - http://foodandthriftfinds.blogspot.com telling me that she has included my blog in her list of “One Lovely Blog Award”. Thanks Elisabeth.

It has been a fun ride for me to share my Mum’s, my hubby’s and my own recipes. I am also very pleased to meet so many wonderful foodie friends on my journey. This is an AWESOME experience for me and I LOVE meeting new friends everyday.

As part of the award, I was told that I have to award it to another 10 to 15 bloggers. So here they are. Congratulations!

Please check out my AWESOME foodie friends:

Diane - http://lifeincharente.blogspot.com/

Mother Rimmys - http://motherrimmy.com/wordpress/

Mrs. K - http://learningtoenjoytherain.blogspot.com/

Anncoo - http://anncoojournal.blogspot.com/

Elin - http://www.elinluvdelights.com/

Becca - http://www.livingwrighthome.com/

Cheah - http://cheah2009.blogspot.com/

Rita - http://sagecuisine.blogspot.com/

Kriszina - http://krisztinakitchen.blogspot.com/

Sabby - http://foodfunfreak.blogspot.com/

Ping - http://pingspickings.blogspot.com/

Sonia - http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/

Kim - http://www.kimbaskitchen.com/

Nancy & Vijay - http://kitchengypsies.blogspot.com/

Girlichef - http://www.girlichef.com/

10 comments:

AnonymousNovember 3, 2010 at 8:01 PM
Thanks so much Quay Po..you are very kind :) Did you change your page? It looks very nice.
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DianeNovember 3, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Many thanks and much appreciated. You have a lovely blog and I really enjoy it. Diane
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Quay Po CooksNovember 3, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Hi Nancy & Vijay,
You are most welcome:D
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Quay Po CooksNovember 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM
Diane,
You are very welcome:D
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ann lowNovember 3, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Thank you very much Quay Po and I am honored. Love your blog with those interesting recipes :)
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Quay Po CooksNovember 3, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Ann,
You are most welcome:D
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Kimberly PetersonNovember 4, 2010 at 7:15 AM
Yayyy thank you so much, I'm honored!! :)
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Quay Po CooksNovember 4, 2010 at 9:41 AM
Kim
You are most welcome:D
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Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak LoverNovember 4, 2010 at 9:42 PM
sorry, I'm late to collect this lovely award. Thank you so much given me this award, appreciate much.
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Quay Po CooksNovember 4, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Sonia,
You are most welcome:D
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A LITTLE ABOUT THIS QUAY PO

Before I was married to my "Quay Lo" (Guaylo) husband, I did not know how to bake or cook. Subsequently I learned some baking and cooking Western cuisine from him, and providing his food for him launched an interest in cooking in general. Many of my Chinese friends and family told me that "Quay" is the wrong spelling for devil in Cantonese. The right spelling should be "Kwai" or "Guay". Well, somehow I like the spelling "Quay" better although I have to agree that it does not sound very Cantonese. Try asking a Westerner to pronounce "Kwai" and you will probably hear "Quay" haha. Whether is "Quay" or "Kwai" or "Guay, just know the devil woman is me when you see Quay Po Cooks. My hubby said if people pronounce "Quay" as "Key" is even better because I am the key to his heart. LOL!

Only now, have I started to learn the traditional Cantonese cuisine of my Mum. She cooks fabulously and all her specialties are divine. These two interests, my husband's Western food, and my mother's traditional food, prompted me to document them so they will not be lost.

Here, I wish to share my cooking and baking experience with my readers. I also hope to inspire those who do not know how to cook or bake to do so because, trust me, if I can, you can too.

Something I'd like to mention is that I find that many people are rather unwilling to share their recipes. However, for me, I think differently. I think good recipes should be shared thus allowing as many people to enjoy it as possible. Unless those recipes are for doing business, I don't see why we want to keep them all to ourselves. So if you are generous in sharing your recipes, you are welcome to share on my blog. Send the recipes to me and better still with pictures of the final products and I will be very happy to post them them with credits to you of course.

Our cuisine is a deeply embedded part of our culture. When two cultures come together under the same roof the results in the kitchen can sometimes be comedic, sometimes confrontational, but more often it is a journey full of surprises and discovery. There is joy in our food. If we think upon this, it is intuitively obvious. This blog is a journey of joy and sharing, reflecting what the French like to call "joie de vivre" (joy of living). No one could be more different from one another then my husband and my mother. Yet one thing they share in common is knowing intuitively that food, cooking, and sharing can be avenues of joy in life itself. So herein, help yourself, to a little joy and , if you like it, share it with your own family and friends. Joy is something that should be shared.