The Amorese Duo: Passion for Pink Charity Dinner

I was honored to have been invited to Passion for Pink Charity Dinner on Tues, March 8^th. The event was held to commemorate the 100^th International Women’s Day in aid of the Himalayan Women’s Health Project. All proceeds went to this group of Doctors who sacrifice their lives to travel to extremely remote areas in the Himalayans. I was very impressed by these women (since this was a women’s only event, the male doctors that are also involved, were not present). Their presentation graphically exhibited some of the conditions that most of us in industrialized societies never see: cleft palates (Dr. Elliott noted that these are usually fixed within 3 months) and so on. Below is a picture of how crude some of the conditions are but they are able to sterilize all instruments effectively even though it's outside and over fire.

The dinner was hosted in the private residence of H.E. Janne Julsrud, the Ambassador of Norway to Singapore.

The dinner was sponsored by

Mika Tomiyama -Norwegian Seafood Export Council

Flora Loh - Top Wines

Chef Samia Ahad – Coriander Leaf

Chef Forest Leong – Sam.Leong @ Forest Cooking School

Chef Janice Wong – 2 am Dessert Bar

(From Left to Right: Dr. Elliott, Mika, Flora, Forest, Samia, Janice & H.E. Janne Julsrud

The night started at 7pm and I didn’t get home until 1am. Lots of food and wine and great company!

Click on the picture below for the detailed menu – it’s too much to write here.

Here are some pictures of the dishes throughout the night. My two favorites were Samia’s Salmon Mole with Pickled Carrot Relish & Forest’s Salmon Belly in Hot & Sour Clear Soup with Mushroom (Thai Tom Yum Style). I never thought to use Salmon in Tom Yum soup, but now I’m going to – it was fantastic. I was thrilled to have Samia’s Cured Salmon again with, my favorite wine of the night, Zaccagnini Aster Spumante Rose.

The desserts were phenomenal! Chef Janice, a young Singaporean Chef, has quite a talent. See her desserts below - it's art and very yummy!

Before dinner we watched a presentation by Dr. Myra Elliott & Dr. Chua Yang. As I noted before, the pictures were quite graphic but they told the story of how remote some of the areas really are. In Ladkh (also known as Little Tibet), the road is only two-way maybe 4-5 months out of the year (to trade products/vegetables). Meaning, the villages are snowed in most of the year.