I've just had a post CNY weekend over here in London, lots of food as you can imagine. No prizes for getting it right :)
Saturday night was a dinner party at Jolyn's. She kindly arranged it well after CNY actually, so I could attend it. Before that, she actually set a rule saying each of us has to bring a friend just to make it a more social night. The only criteria is that the person has to like Chinese food, and wants to celebrate CNY. And having not many Singaporean friends left here, I had to think long and hard before I decided to invite.. haha a pure Aussie friend L from church. He is Aussie on the outside but Chinese on the inside coz he simply loves Chinese food. (He calls himself an egg- go figure.)
It was a potluck dinner party and I volunteered to cook the simple spring onion ginger chicken. So I happily made a trip to Tesco, returned home and started preparing when I realised *gasp* I forgot about the ginger! That was a mini panic moment but thankfully the little shop across the road had some ginger to save my day. C'mon Bel!
Presenting my humble contribution
That's J helping to scoop some rice for us; and me looking over in a skeptical manner - I'm not sure why this expression!
Flatmates :)
We wanted to take a picture with the Banksy print behind us;
And in L's words "the only 2 guai los" at the party.
Saturday night was a dinner party at Jolyn's. She kindly arranged it well after CNY actually, so I could attend it. Before that, she actually set a rule saying each of us has to bring a friend just to make it a more social night. The only criteria is that the person has to like Chinese food, and wants to celebrate CNY. And having not many Singaporean friends left here, I had to think long and hard before I decided to invite.. haha a pure Aussie friend L from church. He is Aussie on the outside but Chinese on the inside coz he simply loves Chinese food. (He calls himself an egg- go figure.)
It was a potluck dinner party and I volunteered to cook the simple spring onion ginger chicken. So I happily made a trip to Tesco, returned home and started preparing when I realised *gasp* I forgot about the ginger! That was a mini panic moment but thankfully the little shop across the road had some ginger to save my day. C'mon Bel!
Presenting my humble contribution
That's J helping to scoop some rice for us; and me looking over in a skeptical manner - I'm not sure why this expression!
Flatmates :)
We wanted to take a picture with the Banksy print behind us;
And in L's words "the only 2 guai los" at the party.
Sunday morning, I had to wake up early for breakfast at Sarah's, and then.. rushing down to Chinatown for another meal- dim sum!
Lanterns up in Chinatown
This had been arranged some time back before my trip home, and finally I managed to meet up with C and his friends, coincidentally all Aussies. And so I had dim sum with a table of 5 other Aussies. Felt very outnumbered yes. Haha but they were really nice and friendly so it was okay :) It's really lovely to meet people from all walks of life, and not boring finance people like myself. Like E, who is almost the sweetest girl I've ever met, is working for Disney in their consumer products division, and then C is working as an animator for a Hollywood company - how cool is that? Geez and I work with nasty traders everyday.
We ate and talked non stop till we missed the third service and had to go back for the last service.
Lanterns up in ChinatownThis had been arranged some time back before my trip home, and finally I managed to meet up with C and his friends, coincidentally all Aussies. And so I had dim sum with a table of 5 other Aussies. Felt very outnumbered yes. Haha but they were really nice and friendly so it was okay :) It's really lovely to meet people from all walks of life, and not boring finance people like myself. Like E, who is almost the sweetest girl I've ever met, is working for Disney in their consumer products division, and then C is working as an animator for a Hollywood company - how cool is that? Geez and I work with nasty traders everyday.
We ate and talked non stop till we missed the third service and had to go back for the last service.
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