Steamboat was the theme. My eldest brother coordinated the food that each family should bring to the lunch party. We met at Pat's place and every one tucked in as soon as the steamboats were brought to the boil as you could not stop hungry stomachs from seeking for food like a heat-seeking missile!
Sliced Rockling
Japanese straw mushrooms
Bok Choy
Fish balls + Banana Green Prawns
Nice thick slices of tofu
Half-boiled Eggs + Vermicelli is a must as a curtain closer
We enjoyed the fresh food - less fatty, less oily, and quick off the boil and eaten. Every one had bowls of the food. I regretted not having made sambal belacan for this occasion although SM had already bought all the necessary ingredients. It was a cracking busy day yesterday as we did the marketing at Springvale and got home pretty late in the arvo. Then we were invited to a birthday dinner of one of SM's friends and by the time we got home it was 10pm+.
SM also started having a sore throat after the Thursday STOBA dinner at Red Bean; having eaten some deep fried soft-shell crabs that did not quite agree with her. All these contributed to my forgetting to make the sambal belacan. Oh well.....
I cracked an egg and put it in a ladle in the boiling soup and it didn't look that nice a half-boiled egg. David put the whole egg with the shell instead in the soup and voila, 4.5 minutes later a nice half-boiled egg was the outcome. After that everyone else just wanted half-boiled eggs the way David cooked his! Good job David.
Everybody was impressed by the cupcakes (sponge cakes) that SM made for Pat. Each cupcake signify one year. Pretty good idea. And very easy-eating cakes.
We talked about the next birthday party but since eldest sister and Lee are going away for a holiday to China and also eldest brother is doing a holiday tour to Cambodia so we put off any preparations till November or December.
SM also started having a sore throat after the Thursday STOBA dinner at Red Bean; having eaten some deep fried soft-shell crabs that did not quite agree with her. All these contributed to my forgetting to make the sambal belacan. Oh well.....
I cracked an egg and put it in a ladle in the boiling soup and it didn't look that nice a half-boiled egg. David put the whole egg with the shell instead in the soup and voila, 4.5 minutes later a nice half-boiled egg was the outcome. After that everyone else just wanted half-boiled eggs the way David cooked his! Good job David.
Everybody was impressed by the cupcakes (sponge cakes) that SM made for Pat. Each cupcake signify one year. Pretty good idea. And very easy-eating cakes.
We talked about the next birthday party but since eldest sister and Lee are going away for a holiday to China and also eldest brother is doing a holiday tour to Cambodia so we put off any preparations till November or December.
Blowing candles for the Lam family
Happy Birthday Mom - from the kids
Dad got a Father's Day mug from my eldest sister
Dad was visibly more alert and relaxed this time
Mom got special-made fructose strawberry muffins from SM
Kev just wanted to play with the fire
He got what he wanted + smiled for the candid camera
David re-arranged a special heart-shape "cake"
Dad played "Happy Birthday To You" on the piano for Pat
8 comments:
Wow.... I didn't know you dad can play the piano so well.... he reminds me of my mum, she likes music. She's still singing in the church choir and she also plays the piano.
By the way, the cup-cake arrangement looks more like a No7 to me, at first I thought it was purposely arranged to look like a 7 cos there were only 4 candles on those cakes and the arrangement of 7 makes sense.
Cooking the egg the way David did is exactly what our family do when we go for our steamboat dinners. In this way, you will get to enjoy eating the whole egg and not just the egg yoke cos most of the white will be gone if you break it. One more teaching from our family is ...... you are only allow to put the whole egg with shell in the soup when everyone has finished eating, so you won't contaminate the soup.
Happy Birthday Pat!! and many happy returns......
Ha ha ha...
David re-arranged the cupcakes to "try to look like a heart shape". It was originally a "round cake" shape.
My dad took everybody by surprise with the Happy Birthday tune because we were focusing on the "birthday girl".....
Oh... if you look at the shape from the birthday girl's perspective then it's a heart shape. Different strokes, different animals!
Also there were only 45 cakes because she had 2 before we got to the birthday song!
Ha ! Ha ! Ha !
He blogs about food. He blogs about how to make food. Then , he doesn't know how to enjoy eating food.
Ha ! Ha ! Ha !
Tali, ya lor. Come to think of it I never do food reviews....Because I am not a food critic, and I do not know the differences between the "cheap foods" we cook and eat compared to the "high class" and expensive foods that you consume in food-crazy Ipoh! Ha ha ha..... Poor deprived me. Anyway I take up your invitation to sample long-loss Ipoh foods come April! Ciao.
Hahaha ..... Again your different strokes and different animals concept ..... then can you tell me why only 4 candles was lighted?? Where is the balance of the 7 small candles?
This is ....er....not related to 47. There are 4 of them in the family lah.....
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