[Warning: This article contains lots and lots of pictures of food, including non-halal food. Read at your own risk! I am not responsible for whatever happens to you after reading this!! ^^;]
This is what a rice cooker looks like when it's overflowing with rice... There were rave reviews for the rice for some reason... must be because I used Thai Jasmine rice?
My oyster-sauce based paper wrapped chicken, chicken wings to be exact. A simple marinade-overnight-and-wrap-them-up-and-throw-into-the-oven dish.
Chinese steamed minced pork, an easy-to-make put-everything-together-and-steam dish. I couldn't make the typical big trayful as my steamer is too small. So I had to improvise. The result was what one of my guests called "the burger thingy" ^^;
My sweet sour pork, hot from the wok, which experienced a clean sweep even before we even started eating. I spent months perfecting this baby ever since I came here, and am still doing so!
A close-up for you to drool at ^,^
My ginger-scallion chicken, another dish which was also emptied within a short time.
Vegetable dishes are not my speciality, so I decided to just throw a bunch of rabbit food together and made a tray of Loh Han Chai (mixed vegetables?). Look at all the steam!!
Lotus root & peanut soup, of which I completely forgot to take a picture for some reason. So you only get to see the experimental version made some time last year :( This was the first dish I served everybody, and it is most probably the most mysterious dish out of all my cooking that night.
Siew Yuk (Roasted Pork Belly), which I DIDN'T cook but went all the way to town to buy instead :P.
Siew Mai, which I bought frozen from the Chinese supermarket and steamed. Hey... steaming takes effort as well... I don't have that much time to wrap up siew mai's, ok?
My plate. I didn't take too much because I was worried that there won't be enough food to go around.
My food was (almost) all cleared, except for 2 extra paper-wrapped chickens and some Loh Han Chai left over. This could either mean that my food was too tasty, or that there wasn't enough food :( I could actually feel the vibe of people wanting more sweet and sour pork that night. :(
My guests made some dessert to make sure that everybody's stomach is filled. I took the easy way out and bought a big watermelon and had one of my guests chop it up while I was busy cooking :P
All in all, it was quite successful dinner. There were no reports of food poisoning, so that was already a success in itself. ^^