Dinner gathering with university friends

Yes, I know. I know I had abandoned this blog for a very long period. September and October are busy months for me. I went to Vietnam in September and 2 days later, I will be going to China. I spent a lot of time doing research for my trips. Furthermore, new project had started so everyday I go back from office very late. Honestly, I do less cooking. Even if I cook, I cook easy and repeated dishes. No more new recipes. I hope that after October, everything will be back to normal and I can cook daily.

About a week ago, my university friends came to my place for dinner gathering. I had to prepare dinner for 9 person. It was a challenging task to me. Tell you, I will get panic when everyone has arrived and I still have many dishes to cook. :) So, I decided to cook few dishes that could be prepared earlier. There were Pork Belly with Yam(芋头扣肉）, Pig Tribe Pepper Soup(胡椒猪肚汤） and Chinese Spinach in Superior Stock（上汤芫菜）. Then at night, I only had to cook Clam in Kam Heong Sauce(甘香拉拉） and Crispy Eggplant(脆炸茄子）.

Thanks god, there was no big mistake. If not, we had to order Pizza. Everyone gave nice comments to my dishes. But deep in my heart, I know I still need more practices, especially preparing food for bigger group. Anyway, it was fun to cook and great to meet up with friends.

A note of thanks to:
Lam, who took the above photos as I was busy with food.
Lee Peng and Anne, who cleaned the mess after the dinner.
Other attendants, a perfect gathering with all of you.

Looking forward to the next gathering.

Noodles with Mushroom Sesame Toon Sauce

Finally, I tried out the organic food bought from Pulau Tikus. The organic shop provided samples for their mushroom sesame toon sauce. I found that it was not bad. So I bought the sauce together with some noodles. Again, this was very simple. I just mixed the cooked and drained noodles with 1-2tbsp of the mushroom sesame toon sauce. I like the noodles as it would not become soggy easily. Left picture is the thin noodles and right picture is the thick noodles. So, replace your instant noodles with this? Deal?

Porridge with meat balls

I like this type of porridge, example would be Macau Sam Un or Canton-i Queensbay. So I made use of my secret paste, and cooked a pot of porridge with it. It was so simple, just need to scoop the paste into the boiling plain porridge. I added some sesame oil, soy sauce and pepper when served. I think I will cook this again very soon.