UOB clients cook up a storm for charity

Singapore

MORE than 40 UOB clients swapped their corporate attire for chef hats and aprons to participate in a Chinese New Year cook-off on Thursday to raise funds for charity.

They spent the morning at At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy dishing up their personal specialties based on the theme "Family". Three winning dishes were selected by a judging panel that included UOB deputy chairman and CEO Wee Ee Cheong, UOB head of Group Commercial Banking Eric Tham and celebrity chef Eric Teo.

These dishes will be featured at a special Chinese New Year reunion dinner on Jan 25, organised by UOB Group Commercial Banking for more than 100 beneficiaries from underprivileged families under the care of Central Community Development Council (CDC).

UOB client Jeslin Teo, CEO, TTS Eurocars Pte Ltd, who prepared one of the winning dishes, said: "I relished the challenge of creating a dish for UOB's Lunar New Year reunion dinner as a way of giving back to our community. Lunar New Year is a time for families and friends to come together and this made the event more meaningful as it enabled us to gather for a good cause with a longstanding partner such as UOB."

Besides putting their cooking skills to work, the UOB clients also donated close to S$250,000 as part of the bank's annual Lunar New Year charity fundraising drive. The funds raised this year will go toward the Central CDC, The Red Pencil Singapore, The Business Times Budding Artists Fund and The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund.