birthday potluck
the spread for the evening - (1) chicken & beef satay from jalan kayu (we seriously have no idea where to get satay near our place, so jalan kayu was our best bet. 50 cents per stick though, which i thought was pretty steep. i still prefer the satay from the chinese stall at clementi central! (2) chilli crab with fried man tou from hougang ave 9 - errr, i innocently thought daniel will be bringing HOMECOOKED chilli crab!!! must say the taste was pretty good though(probably better than daniel's own version). (3) tuna and egg mayo sandwiches (made by yours truly) - a fuss-free dish this time round. (4) lastly, the chocolate brownie cake made by the birthday girl herself! errr, we were already planning to get her the chocolate fudge cake from jane's cake station, but she had to volunteer to bake a cake! glad we bought the colourful happy birthday candles, else there won't be candles to blow off! not shown in the pictures are - jack's own creation of his chessy mixed fruit dessert (i would have thought it was yoghurt! and tasted pretty nice in fact!), our usual ben&jerry's ice-cream and xp's two packet of chips (argh, didn't even touch it!).
well, there's always mahjong after the meal, but as usual, we were just too darn slow to even finish one round... and poor xp ends up as the loser (again!) - hey, i think you need to bring along an auspicious item next time, hehe. and here you can see my tummy's is HUGE... about two more months to go!
oh, and lastly, thank you to xuying for the sweet pink gerberas! and jack for having to go all the way back home to fetch it. errr, strange again that the birthday girl is giving away and not receiving flowers this year! btw, it's sitting nicely in a glass vase on the dining table now. :-)
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the spread for the evening - (1) chicken & beef satay from jalan kayu (we seriously have no idea where to get satay near our place, so jalan kayu was our best bet. 50 cents per stick though, which i thought was pretty steep. i still prefer the satay from the chinese stall at clementi central! (2) chilli crab with fried man tou from hougang ave 9 - errr, i innocently thought daniel will be bringing HOMECOOKED chilli crab!!! must say the taste was pretty good though(probably better than daniel's own version). (3) tuna and egg mayo sandwiches (made by yours truly) - a fuss-free dish this time round. (4) lastly, the chocolate brownie cake made by the birthday girl herself! errr, we were already planning to get her the chocolate fudge cake from jane's cake station, but she had to volunteer to bake a cake! glad we bought the colourful happy birthday candles, else there won't be candles to blow off! not shown in the pictures are - jack's own creation of his chessy mixed fruit dessert (i would have thought it was yoghurt! and tasted pretty nice in fact!), our usual ben&jerry's ice-cream and xp's two packet of chips (argh, didn't even touch it!).
well, there's always mahjong after the meal, but as usual, we were just too darn slow to even finish one round... and poor xp ends up as the loser (again!) - hey, i think you need to bring along an auspicious item next time, hehe. and here you can see my tummy's is HUGE... about two more months to go!
oh, and lastly, thank you to xuying for the sweet pink gerberas! and jack for having to go all the way back home to fetch it. errr, strange again that the birthday girl is giving away and not receiving flowers this year! btw, it's sitting nicely in a glass vase on the dining table now. :-)