Pot LUCK Nov 2014
The Good Food Pot Luck Galore was a fantastic success!
We had about 40 over people, and so many ever so different dishes to taste … smiles all round, happy faces! A total success!
And we had some “best dish winners” based on your impromptu votes:
Madam Faridah Beech : nasi minyak - best main dish
Madam Daphne Ting : pulut panggang - best side dish
Madam Lia Crossland : chendol - best dessert
Special award and a big thank you to Melissa and Hiok Mui Tan - for doing the dishes!
Thank you to all who have helped and contributed-every bit of your helping hand has helped to ease the workload.
And we had a huge influx of positive comments - thank you so much! This was a real boost for the movers and shakers of the committee members and volunteers often working tirelessly in the invisible background.
Comments like, the SCC as a club is improving, and thank you for providing a real open platform to meet our fellow members and friends, and of course appreciation for upholding the most Singapore cultural of them all, GOOD authentic FOOD shared.
There were a couple of things marginal at the November Good Food Galore worth mentioning where we all, SCC members and friends, could learn from and thus could do better in future events, for all our benefit and thus even better success:
1) Food quantity brought to share.
It’s great to see that a fair number of our members and friends brought generous size dishes and they were yummy and nicely presented - wonderful and inspiring for many of us. However, some people brought dishes on the small side, and there was one expired mouldy pizza. The invite made good mention to “please be generous with the volume of food you bring” so that there will be plenty to share for seconds and to ta-pau. Some members bought plenty of ta-pau containers and were disappointed as the food was almost finished in the first round! If you all would have brought too much food, you all would have taken some home as well. There is a slight trend in members staying and chatting for longer which is what we aimed for. The extra food would have been a bonus! Better to have more than being short in food, and costs you the same in effort and monetary value. Please do not take it for granted that there will always be someone volunteering making up for our collective shortcomings. That is not the role of the SCC and sustained insufficient contribution can have a negative impact long term on the quality of the SCC overall (as has happened before).
2) Shared chores.
Just 2 members besides committee members fully volunteered cleaning up afterwards in earnest. Now that really needs to be addressed. The SCC is NOT run by people elected to the committee to be working slaves for the members and friends of the SCC. The SCC is a club from its members for its members, and we ALL need to contribute, at least with the chores on the day. This too was mentioned in the invite to bring a helping spirit and give a hand as many hands make light work. Lack of helping hands kills the enthusiasm of the volunteers who organise the events. We need to thank these volunteers by not punishing them with even more work leaving the cleaning up afterwards to them as well. The spirit of the SCC must refocus on shared chores, and not view the SCC as an entity which serves.
Please, all to bring a small rubbish bag next time and take a little bit home for your council bin - this helps us prevent costly problems.
Don’t ask what the SCC can do for you, but ask what you can do for the SCC.
We had about 40 over people, and so many ever so different dishes to taste … smiles all round, happy faces! A total success!
And we had some “best dish winners” based on your impromptu votes:
Madam Faridah Beech : nasi minyak - best main dish
Madam Daphne Ting : pulut panggang - best side dish
Madam Lia Crossland : chendol - best dessert
Special award and a big thank you to Melissa and Hiok Mui Tan - for doing the dishes!
Thank you to all who have helped and contributed-every bit of your helping hand has helped to ease the workload.
And we had a huge influx of positive comments - thank you so much! This was a real boost for the movers and shakers of the committee members and volunteers often working tirelessly in the invisible background.
Comments like, the SCC as a club is improving, and thank you for providing a real open platform to meet our fellow members and friends, and of course appreciation for upholding the most Singapore cultural of them all, GOOD authentic FOOD shared.
There were a couple of things marginal at the November Good Food Galore worth mentioning where we all, SCC members and friends, could learn from and thus could do better in future events, for all our benefit and thus even better success:
1) Food quantity brought to share.
It’s great to see that a fair number of our members and friends brought generous size dishes and they were yummy and nicely presented - wonderful and inspiring for many of us. However, some people brought dishes on the small side, and there was one expired mouldy pizza. The invite made good mention to “please be generous with the volume of food you bring” so that there will be plenty to share for seconds and to ta-pau. Some members bought plenty of ta-pau containers and were disappointed as the food was almost finished in the first round! If you all would have brought too much food, you all would have taken some home as well. There is a slight trend in members staying and chatting for longer which is what we aimed for. The extra food would have been a bonus! Better to have more than being short in food, and costs you the same in effort and monetary value. Please do not take it for granted that there will always be someone volunteering making up for our collective shortcomings. That is not the role of the SCC and sustained insufficient contribution can have a negative impact long term on the quality of the SCC overall (as has happened before).
2) Shared chores.
Just 2 members besides committee members fully volunteered cleaning up afterwards in earnest. Now that really needs to be addressed. The SCC is NOT run by people elected to the committee to be working slaves for the members and friends of the SCC. The SCC is a club from its members for its members, and we ALL need to contribute, at least with the chores on the day. This too was mentioned in the invite to bring a helping spirit and give a hand as many hands make light work. Lack of helping hands kills the enthusiasm of the volunteers who organise the events. We need to thank these volunteers by not punishing them with even more work leaving the cleaning up afterwards to them as well. The spirit of the SCC must refocus on shared chores, and not view the SCC as an entity which serves.
Please, all to bring a small rubbish bag next time and take a little bit home for your council bin - this helps us prevent costly problems.
Don’t ask what the SCC can do for you, but ask what you can do for the SCC.