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Although Leah is still young, her challenger spirit has demonstrated that progress can happen when we wear our hearts on our sleeves and allow love to guide our actions and be our motivation. Chef Leah (R) and Angel Chan (left) the actor cast to play her in the filmĪbdul Sani Abdul Murad, Chief Marketing Officer at RHB Group, said, “At RHB, we believe that success comes from not giving up on what we truly hold dear to our hearts. The film takes viewers back to a time when Leah had just started her baking journey, and it unravels the heartfelt motivation behind her incredible display of perseverance despite having to learn baking from scratch and failing multiple times in the beginning. Treatment in the country, while Leah continues her fundraising endeavour, which has led to her launching her very first children’s cookbook. Today, Adele has outlived doctors’ expectations and continues to receive In 2015, Leah also became the youngest recipient of the coveted Tuanku Bainun Young Changemakers Award, which was bestowed to her as a commendation for the remarkable progress she has made for her and her sister Adele’s lives. In RHB Bank’s Awakening the Challenger Within campaign. The video was created by FCB Kuala Lumpur and is the 11 th edition

Leah’s story touched the hearts of so many that RHB has dedicated her efforts in a video for Chinese New Year this year titled Heart Baker. “The biggest reason is for her sister and Leah wants to continue to inspire children and adults to do good,” her mum said. “We are glad she’s very grounded, she’s not here to be a spokesperson for a product. “At the end of the day, she is very conscious about why she bakes, it’s never about the fame. Choy conducting a pinata cupcake workshop for children. Instead of a YouTube or Instagram channel, Choy said she prefers the idea of a café where she can organise cooking demonstrations. The family now carries out the programme at home and gets help from a therapy centre in Seremban.Ĭhoy, who is homeschooled, plans to attend a culinary school for teens and pursue culinary arts and farming in university.Īsked how she feels achieving so much at such a young age, Choy replied, “I feel like a normal kid but sometimes I feel like sleeping the whole day after an entire day of baking.” The family used to travel frequently to the US for Adele’s medical treatment but after she had her first seizure last August, they were advised against travelling on planes. Her mum went back to work in 2017, swapping roles with dad Choy Chan Mun who is now a full-time stay-at-home father.

Since moving to a farmhouse in Melaka where there is more room to grow vegetables, Choy has been adopting farm to the table lifestyle with ease, cooking what they grow and preparing meals over charcoal. “At first I didn’t cook so much, I ate more,” said Choy whose signature dishes include char kway teow, and different types of soup for her sister.

#Love story about a cupcake baker how to#

Because my grandmother is Nyonya so I want to cook what she cooks at home and the things we eat at home - she’s the one who taught me how to cook. (from left) Dad Choy Chan Mun, Choy, Adele and mum Tay Mei Yean - Picture by Miera ZulyanaĬhoy revealed she plans to write a second book following the success of her debut cookbook. “Being in Melaka makes it quite hard to deliver the orders that mainly come from the Klang Valley,” said Tay. “Ever since her book came out, she does more talks and workshops rather than selling her cupcakes. The book has been bought by readers in Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, UK, US, Switzerland and India. To have your book and story shared among kids in school is something amazing,” said Leah’s mum Tay Mei Yean. “They recently ordered 507 copies of her book to be made available in all public libraries in the country including East Malaysia. Her book Chef Leah with a Big Heart was also recently picked up by the National Library of Malaysia. In those five years, she has met her baking idol, US celebrity pastry chef Buddy Valastro, launched a baking book last December with MPH and her story has brought the Unicef young changemaker to Indonesia and Brunei. The young baker shot to fame and straight into the hearts of Malaysians with her inspiring story after she started baking and selling cupcakes at age four to raise funds for her younger sister Adele’s medical treatment.Īdele was diagnosed with microcephaly along with quadriplegia cerebral palsy when she was two months old. “It’s like candle wax,” Choy exclaimed, frequently chiming in with tips and tricks such as “You’re basically writing a lowercase ‘E’” on how to pipe the perfect rosette.Ĭhoy is definitely not your typical nine-year-old.

It was a typical Friday afternoon when nine-year-old Leah Choy was teaching a small group of media members how to pipe hydrangeas and rosettes using Italian meringue buttercream.