Aimee Chan as special guest in Apprentice Chef

Steven Ma Explains his tomato egg; Aimee Chan smiles sweetly.  
2011/05/28  The night before, Aimee Chan and Tse Ling, both former Miss Hong Kong, attended the recording of Apprentice Chef hosted by Steven Ma.  When Steven saw Aimee he immediately explained his previous analogy of her and Moses to a tomato and egg pairing because he feels that she and Moses are both very 'guai', and as matching as tomatoes cooked with eggs.  At hearing his explanation, Aimee smiled sweetly and said thank you to him.


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Steven Ma uses tomato and egg to describe Moses Chan and Aimee Chan.
2011/5/25 Last night Steven Ma was promoting his program, Apprentice Chef.   He revealed that after his show debuted on tv, whenever he dined out in restaurants, many of their owners approached him expressing desire to be his guests in his show.  He has invited many tvb fadans to be special guests in his show including Sonija Kwok, which she declined in the end.  Not show if she is too busy preparing for her wedding.  Steven said he can understand her because she is in China and can't find time to return to Hong Kong.  He doesn't know when is the wedding but no matter where it will be held, he will find time to attend.


Steven Ma revealed that later he would invite Aimee Chan to be his special guest.  When asked if he knew about Aimee and Moses Chan's rumors, Steven said they are both very 'guai' (well-behaved), can be said they are as matching as tomatoes cooked with eggs.  steven-ma.org

Steven Ma Grateful to Stephen Chan for keeping his word.

Reposting of this article disallowed.

2011/05/27On.cc  Recently, Steven has been said to have changed his religious faith therefore is now been highly utilized by Stephen Chan.  During the recording of Apprentice Chef, Steven denied the above claim, and strongly stressed that in the past he has never subscribed to religious faith, although he has attended 藝人之家 ( a group of baptist group comprised of HK artists) but has not yet being baptized.

Steven says candidly that earlier on he has had wanted to leave the nest. At that time, Stephen Chan invited him for a negotiation discussion.  Steven says he desired his own culinary show and to sing, so his present jobs are the realization of Mr. Chan's earlier promises made to him.  Steven is grateful to the latter's responsibility and that he keeps his promise.

TN: I'm so glad Steven clarifies that he became Christian not because of Stephen Chan's influence.  Like I have mentioned earlier, Steven had already publicly revealed on weibo his Christian faith after much spiritual searching on his own not because of somebody's influence.


steven ma.org weibo

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Steven Ma Totally Depends on Stephen Chan

1st Weekly vol: 1107
2011 June 2nd @
Disclaimer: This is a tabloid reporting with its usual dollop of salt and vinegar seasoning, so read it with a grain of salt. 

Ever since Stephen Chan got entangled in a corruption case, favorite generals Amigo Chui and Patrick Tang drew a clear boundary from him. Since his reinstatement to his post at TVB in November 2010, President Chan displays a change of style from his usual, even when he assisted jobless Amigo Chui to get outside job; no words were mentioned of it, very low profile indeed.

But the remaining Chan party member, Steven Ma, still receives President Chan’s patronage, besides a custom made Book of Words being arranged for him to host so as to heighten his image, the second season of Apprentice Chef will also be ostentatiously launched.  Their relationship is getting more intimate. As the lead ‘honey’, Steven, who had previously believed in feng shui and numerology now believes in Jesus Christ because of President Chan. (see note1)

Last Friday, May 20th, Stephen Chan left work at 7 pm and in a 7-seater white Toyota van was driven to Tsim Sha Tsui. H was later dropped off at Granville Road where he met up with Steven Ma, Pastor Enoch Lam, and Sharon Chan, who has taken time off for several months due to illness. They partook a private dinner together during their bible study.  The four of them left around eleven o’clock at night.  While waiting for their rides, President Chan chatted incessantly with Steven and et al. When the van arrived, President Chan and Pastor Lam got into it, while Steven got into another similar style and color van and was driven away by the chauffeur back to his Ho Man Tin residence.

Abandoned one after another by Amigo Chui and Patrick Tang, President Chan now focuses his attention on his other favorite general, Steven Ma. Apparently, President Chan not only supported the latter to host the 2nd season, Book of Words, but also privately thought of gimmicks to aggressively re-package the 2nd season Apprentice Chef from a previously less known prequel, even as to invite various master chefs to competitions so as to create momentum for the show and to hype up Steven’s popularity.

An employee reveals: “Mr. Chan is very low profile theses days, even though he is concerned about Ma Zai’s program he won’t butt in with opinions. Like in Book of Words, actually he and Steven and another professor brainstormed over its premise. And then would let Steven voice out the ideas. So whatever guests Steven wanted to invite is fine, even the producer, Fok Jak Gei, had to listen to him and could not change the people. In Apprentice Chef (2), Mr. Chan gave him lots of ideas, thus making the gimmick works much better. Last season did not have too much atmosphere; this time will be much more merrier.”

To build up his favorite general, President Chan has earlier arranged a meeting between Steven and the owners of a movie company, Lam Siu Ming and Wong Hoi Fung, in hopes of opening up a new outlet for Steven for him to get into the film circle. Their relationship has become tighter. Influenced thus by President Chan, Steven, who previously believed in Buddhism and feng shui, suddenly changed steerage and following suit now believes in Christ.*

An insider says: “Earlier on when Ma Zai was off work, they two seemed very close. They even went to watch Faye Wong’s concert together. ** Because President Chan has a lawsuit pending, it is not convenient for him to get too close to the artists. So they mostly made arrangements to meet up with Pastor Lam for meals and talks. Even though in the past President Chan would find people to do feng shui, but after his problems started, he has turned to Christ. He has shared a lot of his personal experiences with Ma Zai. Now that Ma Zai also believes in Christ, they having the same faith makes it easier to communicate.”

Footnote to * and **: Steven has earlier disclosed his Christian faith in his weibo last year so his change of religious belief is not because of Stephen Chan's influence but way before then.  But I do believe that their having similar faith must have expedited their communication.

** Again disclosed in his weibo, Steven mentioned watching Faye Wong concert with a group of people including Fala and her boyfriend.  A weibo's posting of a picture also shows that among tvb artistes at the concert, Raymond Lam and Charmaine Sheh were there too.  Not just Steven with Stephen as implied in this report.

Steven Ma as spokesperson for health product

2011/05/17 on.cc Steven Ma tried the products first then dared to endorse.  Steven shoots a health food product tv commercial for a 7 figure endorsement fee.   He is satisfied with the endorsement fee.  Furthermore, the owner also bestows him a lifetime use of the said product.  To demonstrate a professional attitude, before becoming the spokesperson, he tried the product for 2 and half months before officially becoming its spokesperson.  During the actual commercial shooting, the owner was there to show support.

from Sing Tao: Steven says as a spokesperson one must be responsible, cannot just accept the endorsement fee and that's it.  He says: "I personally tried it (the product) for 2 and a half months. Slept better and the nose allergy has become better."

Steven says: "The owner says will let me have a lifetime free use of the product.  (To build up virility?) I don't mind.  If want to nourish then should do it when still young."

TN: If not for Steven's hardwork in creating options and choices for himself by writing a book on nutritious supplements and his culinary show, he might not have landed this lucrative endorsement.  

However, Steven has to be aware that per China endorsement laws, spokesperson can be sued along with manufacturer and advertiser by consumer against the product for false advertising.

Steven Ma knows how to eat.

Steven Ma knows how to eat.
Steven’s audience affinity has always been quite good. The ratings of series he leads are usually not bad, like the average ratings of Links to Temptation aired early this year garnered at least 30 points. Not only that but now he even ventured into hosting a tv program.  Book of Words has just recently finished broadcasting, and coming 28th of this month, will see him again in Apprentice Chef 2 talk about cooking. A few days ago, 8th Grand Aunt saw Ma Zai and his manager in Kwoloon inside an optician store on Nam Kok Road to pick up his glasses, after which they went to a nearby Thai restaurant for a meal. After all, Steven can cook a few dishes himself and what’s more, has learned some tips from some well-known master chefs, so Ma Zai is very serious towards food. If not, how would he know to eat the chicken wings with his fingers, so delicious he even licked his fingers clean.

Caption: Chicken wings… I love to eat….actually can eat them with chopsticks…but Ma Zai chose to use fingers so that he could clean out the bones.

superrking:  What's this? Became friends? @ @馬浚偉 . Finally came to fruition,  support you!  搞咩？friend咗？@馬浚偉 終於修成正果， 撐你！ source: superrking @ sina weibo

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TN: This reporter/columnist, 8th Grand Aunt, has never ever had a good word to say about Steven in her reporting.  Hence, Superrking's incredulous question to Steven that maybe he  and 8th Grand Aunt have become friends? haha?  or that Steven has finally turned her to his side?

Macao Galaxy Grand Opening

Steven flanked by two tall, leggy beauties at Macao Galaxy Resort Center grand opening yesterday afternoon, May 15th. 

Apprentice Chef's oath

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5/10 Steven Ma Forbids Pretty Guests Messing in His Kitchen

Steven Ma attended the Master Chef’s Oath event of TVB’s Apprentice Chef 2 tv program.   He says he has to learn a new side dish in every episode and moreover to instantaneously cook it right there and then, making him both stressful and nervous.  Since he will be hosting a cooking show, he is worried that he may become fat so he will eat light to keep fit.   As to having Tavia and Myolie as special guests for his show, Steven expresses that he will prohibit them to mess around in the kitchen because he doesn’t want them to touch the knives for fear of them getting hurt.  Asked if his female guests hurt themselves, would he consider marrying them?  Steven laughs and says: “There’re 13 of them wo!”

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Singpao: TVB's variety show, "Apprentice Chef 2" hosted by Steven Ma will be airing soon. (special edition airs 5/14 and 1st episode airs on 5/28)  Also, yesterday, he and a group of master chefs were at a shopping mall to publicize the show.  Furthermore, yesterday early morning he went to shoot the scene of a cow being slaughtered so as to understand which part of the cow beef brisket came from.  Even though Steven did not wield the knife himself, but the whole scene was quite terrifying to him, with the bloodied site and all.  He says that even though the cow was cut in half, its muscles still quivered.

Because of this show, Steven came across many strange ingredients such as  "alligator turtle" this kind of strange ingredient. When asked what kind of food he would definitely not eat.  Steven says he is opposed to people eating dog meat.  He is aware that some people have this practice of eating dog meat but he makes an impassioned appeal to people to please quit eating dog meat.  He expresses that he will not eat rabbit meat, horse meat or eels.

Right now he wants to keep fit so will be on a light diet, even if he has to wake up early or is tired, he will still persist to exercise.   He reveals that he will personally cook in every episode.  For the 1st two episodes he has invited Tavia Yeung and Myolie Hu as special guests.  He says he is not scared that his beautiful guests will mess up his kitchen: " I'll not let them mess around too much.  I will demonstrate a few strokes and will try to cook together.  The knives are sharp, I cannot afford them accidentally cutting their fingers.  (Asked if his female guests hurt themselves, would he consider marrying them?)  Steven exclaims: "Marry them? Wah! There are 13 special guests!" 

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Steven Ma - The Caring Ambassador for HK Guide Dogs Association.

任導盲犬關愛大使 馬浚偉為養狗考慮換樓
2011-05-06
source: hkheadline news

Recently, Steven Ma as the Caring Ambassador for HK Guide Dogs Association promotes guide dogs for the blind services. Steven since three years old has had raised four pet dogs consecutively. But since his last dog, Ben, ( it's Pomeranian 松鼠狗) died in 2002 (sic. 2001 per SM yahoo blog) he has stopped having a pet dog because he just does not have the time to care take of it.

Steven still misses Ben. He says: "I've had Ben for nine years. Its very sentient.  It usually slept outside elder my sister(s)' or my bedroom door but on the day it died it slept outside the bathroom door.  At the time I found it strange, when I came home after work my elder sister told me Ah Ben had died. It's death was so sudden I was depressed for a long time.

At first he thought of getting another golden haired Pomeranian but rethinking his hectic lifestyle decided not to. "Having a pet is a lifetime commitment, I don't to get one because of impulse, also I don't want my family members to take care of my pet.  Hopefully when I'm not so busy I'll be able to have a dog. It will be ideal if by that time I maybe able to move into a 3-storey detached house that has a garden and a rooftop patio. so will have enough space for the dog to move around.  .

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scmp 4/14/2011 "Guide dogs face hurdles every step of the way"
The association has recruited a celebrity ambassador, actor Steven Ma Chun-wai. He chose to back the organisation because 'I am a dog-lover and I want to show the public that they are not toys, they are pets that can really make a difference.'