About Us

How Kitchen Capers was formed

The Kitchen Capers website was created and dedicated to Boon, a young gentleman I never knew or loved. He was Kim San and Seok Buay's only child. He passed away suddenly 3 years ago. Kim San and Seok Buay are friends I knew from the church I was attending here in Singapore . Kim San stood by me, prayed with me and for me when I was experiencing a very difficult pregnancy with my youngest daughter, Melody. During a routine ultrasound scan, the doctor found that Melody was abnormal.

I spent 4 months crying and had many sleepless nights pondering over this issue. For 4 months after knowing about my unborn child's disability, Kim San gathered a group of church friends and prayed for us every day. He prayed for the baby, and for me to have faith in God. My daughter, Melody was born perfect. Kim San prayed for a miracle. And God answered his prayers.

As it is with all good friends we should help each other when we can. This is my way of helping Kim San and Seok Buay.

The dream of writing and publishing a cookbook was Boon's idea which he shared with his mom. After his death, Seok Buay could never find the strength nor the courage to carry out his dream.

Thus, this website was created. And Buay's vision for the future was to teach cooking and Basic English to poor women around the world. So that they do not have to live a life of poverty and living out their days begging in the streets.

Buay was trained to be an English teacher and she is also a gourmet cook. She taught me many secrets in cooking and baking. Things I would have never known even if I had read a lot of cookbooks.

With that in mind, I started the website and a forum message board to share recipes on cooking and baking. Buay taught me the spirit of giving, of charity. She never holds back anything she knew about cooking or baking. I am deeply encouraged and inspired by her. And I hope my message board carries the same faith too.

And I hope that you share this vision with us too.

Enjoy your time here with us at Kitchen Capers.

About Buay Tan.

I am a travelling Cook and food consultant. I travel a lot and always cook for my friends for FREE bringing my own spices around the world to bless my friends.

Now that I am so passionate about my food knowledge, culture and experience to share I really like to bring peace, blessing and cross cultural understanding and friendship through my food and to educate people about food around the globe.

Can you help me to realise this dream to use my expertise and earnings from my cooking around the world (VISION) to help establish a Cooking school for the poor girls and widows/women wherever God leads me to — so that they can have hope and opportunity for a better life.

May the good LORD bless you in helping me in this endeavour.

Just forward our Kitchen Capers website link to your friends to be blessed by my cooking.

God bless

BUAY Tan

I'm married to a loving and devoted chinese man, Benny Lim. We had 2 daughters, a teenager, Natasha and a younger daughter, Melody.

I used to work with as a MIS Manager with a MNC here in Singapore until I quit last June 2003. I have not been working full time but run my own little business which deals in Data Recovery of failed computer hard disks and digital camera's memory cards. I was trained to be an IT expert. And have been in this line for the last 20 odd years. And getting really tired of it.

Cooking become a passion shortly after my marriage. Before that, I used to hate to go into the kitchen except to get a drink.

In the early years as a wife and a mother, I wanted to prepare meals in a quick and easy way, no fuss and fumble over which ingredient is more or less, or the fire is too hot or just right. I started reading up alot and asking many relatives and friends for help. And it doesn't help that my hubby, Benny grew up on home cooked meals all the time. He hates eating out unless I'm sick in bed or going to the hospital to deliver our baby!

Over the years, I improvised many recipes I got from friends, relatives and also from cookbooks to suit my quick and easy way of cooking. In the process, I found these recipes useful too for other women who are just like me when I first started out.

Thus, with that in mind, Kitchen Capers lives for this sake. To share and to learn together.

About Prashant Patel

I came to know Prashant through a data recovery job I did for him. Understanding that his work and background exists around web development, I asked Prashant for his help and guidance in creating this website.

Prashant is a godsend, I must say. I am happy that our paths crossed. And Prashant proved invaluable to us here at Kitchen Capers as he provides us with all the basic know-how on web development and design.

Prashant helped us to get the ball rolling and spend considerable time working and fixing the website and the forum board to my satisfaction. All these time, this humble gentleman expects no monies or rewards or favours.

Buay and I felt indebted to him for his kindness and his expertise and help.

To understand what Prashant does for a living, click here :

http://www.design-studio.com.sg

http://www.infologi.net

Thank you

Gina Choong