Reunion Dinner...
Every year my family goes through the same routine of packing up on new year's eve and driving down to singapore for our Reunion Dinner with my mum's family... Yeah..u read right.. mum's family... My family is a bit terbalik when it comes to tradition...
How, what was different this year was how much food there was.. haha!! on a norm we would have perhaps 12 dishes max... This year we had 18 dishes... yeap.. count em... 18 dishes for 20 person.. Menu is as below:
1. Sharksfin soup
2. Abalone soup
3. Claypot chicken rice (supposedly with damn good 'ham yu')
4. Fried Mee Sua
5. Tang Hoon in thick soup
6. Pork dumpling
7. Chicken dumpling
8. Tomato curry chicken
9. Stir Fry Beef
10. Pan Fried Beef
11. Chicken stuffed with glutinous rice
12. Vegetarian Pun Choi
13. Tong Po Meat
14. Prawn Fritters
15. Sweet & Sour Fish
16. Mixed Vegetable
17. Beancurd skin roll
18. Fish Maw
Part of all the dishes... some couldnt fit on the table so were left in the kitchen... and as our typical reunion goes... we stood and walked around the table like a buffet spread.... It has been a long time since I have properly sat down around a table and have my reunion dinner.. but I like it this way anyway... It's how my family rolls... :D
The most challenging part of the process... mixing all the ingredients together... It takes muscles... a lot of em.... shows how pack full of goodies the cookies are... :D
Mom says make em small... Kept complaining mine was big.. :( then have to downsize.. she says they need to be bite size... as if ppl's mouth were that small.. Hmmph!! I bet even with the initial sizes I made they would still be just one mouthful.. a slightly fuller one but still a mouthful.. hehe!! But dun argue with mom.. she knows best...
Hmmm.... the aroma of bakes cookies filled the entire house.. Yum Yum!! I kept making excuse that I needed to try.... ate from every tray eventhough same batch.. haha!! Yum Yum!!!
Christmas Eve nite was spent at my TKD instructor's house... food was damn good.. my annual intake of roast lamb was waiting for me... It was as delicious as I remembered... had the ribs till they were bare... the rest of the food was great this year round too.. so much variety... best part of it all was being able to catch up with Saz, Ching Yee+husband+family, Vivien, Hong Wai & Isabelle...Have not had such a getogether for such a long time.... It was nice... My first christmas pressie was from Ching Yee.... 
A turquoise coloured stone pendant... Sorry.. dunno what stone but it is really nice... :) Her sis gave me a frenship band as well but I didnt snap a photo..thanks Ching Mun...
Then came to my pressies... hehe!!! My present for the year from my sisters was my cute little Thomas Sabo Schnauzer Doggy charm... nice!!! :D
Ai Li made an extra effort this year too!! She handmade me a butterfly pendant....
and for such great efforts.. she gets a cute snowman in return... hehe!!!
I have one last pressie... a special doll with a very special msg.... She's got a secret to share... Shhh.....
