My Cooking, My Talent: Volume I

By Chef Zairi Zaidi

Zairi Zaidi is a seasoned chef and kitchen industry professional who has a passion for guiding, training, and motivating the younger generation to join the ranks of those who love food and making others happy through the preparation of delicious meals that bring family and friends together at a table.

In a diverse cookbook that focuses on international cuisine, Zaidi shares recipes for authentic Southeastern Asian meals that invite both novice and experienced chefs to cook several different Malaysian dishes that include roti prata, chicken satay, spicy beef stew with toasted coconut, penang beef curry, spices prawn masala, and Indian rojak fritters with homemade sauce. Included with each recipe are instructions regarding needed equipment and utensils, chef notes, health tips, and nutritional content.

My Cooking, My Talent shares Malaysian recipes, techniques, and helpful tips from an experienced chef intended to motivate a younger generation to join the kitchen industry and create scrumptious meals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796030679

Chef Zairi Zaidi

Chef Zairi Zaidi was born on Penang, Island, Malaysia. She is an Asian cuisine chef who has thirty years of experience in all aspects of the kitchen. Her travel and work has taken her to seven countries that include New Zealand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Russia, and the United States of America. Zaidi has four children, speaks seven languages, and resides with her husband in California.

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Copyright © 2019 by Chef Zairi Zaidi. 793905

ISBN:             Softcover           978-1-7960-3068-6

       Hardcover         978-1-7960-3069-3

                       EBook                978-1-7960-3067-9

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Rev. date: 04/30/2019

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Competencies And Experiences:

Standardized HACCP Recipe/Cost (Sop)

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my mother, my whole family, and late my second son Arwah Muhamad Fazril bin Zairi. He gave me the idea and fully supported me to write my first cookbook My Cooking, My Talent to teach cooking guide and share my knowledge, experience, and skill to people.

Special thanks to my previous chef who taught and guide me until I became a chef myself.

I hope my first cookbook will give the young generation some ideas and motivation from my experience and knowledge.

Through culinary arts, I did not only get to work in my country Malaysia, but I also got to travel and share my experience on the international stage. I believe if you honestly work hard, study and practice theories, learn from experienced chefs, get some guide from cookbooks, and Google culinary resources and materials,(In Sha Allah) you will success chef one day. Amen.

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INTRODUCTION

Hi, guys, I’m Chef Zairi Zaidi, born in Malaysia in Southeast Asia. I ventured in the culinary arts when I was eighteen years old. That time, I never dreamed to become a chef. I only wanted to get a job to provide for my mother. I came from a poor family. I have six siblings, and I’m the eldest.

My first job was as a dishwasher in a five-star hotel in my birthplace, Penang Island. Some call the island Pearl of Orient, and tourists consider it as a food paradise in Asia.

After almost two years of working as a dishwasher (stewarding), I got an offer from the German executive chef in Equatorial Hotel Penang to join kitchen garde manger as commis 3 (kitchen helper). I couldn’t speak English at that time. All I know were yes, sir, thank you, okay, and all right. But I kept my target and my dream in mind, that one day I would become a chef, not only in my country but also overseas.

However slow, I learned how to speak and understand English. I read books and dictionary. I watched late TV news, especially those that have subtitles. I translated Malaysian to English. I read English newspapers. From there, step by step, I learned to understand English. Now I have a grasp of English and have traveled to almost the seven continents of the world, not only to make and keep some money to support my family, but also to get experience and learn from the county where I have traveled and worked.

My experience in the kitchen industry (hotel, restaurants, cruise lines, catering, oil and gas chef, hospitality, airline catering, market,