Decided to host a dinner party together with Nunthiya, partly as a reciprocal obligation of our clandestine group known as The Food Club (Madklubben?!). Yea it involves forcing down strange concoctions of food down other people's mouth and seeing when they'll give up and cry for help. Ok no seriously, I am thankful for this Food Club group cos of all the great people in it, and as a born-and-bred Singaporean, the best way of cultural exchange is of course food. Although sadly I was not around often enough to attend every dinner.
So off we went to do grocery shopping for our meal that evening... Prior to that I had to lug my huge sack of stuff (rice cooker, sauce, meat, more sauce, mixes) over to her place. Great success!
Bazaar Vest! Came here to grab fruits and vegetables, ended up buying some junk like nuts as well. I think I would honestly come here a lot more often if it wasn't that inconvenient. The prices are way better, the stuff is fresh, and the atmosphere of the market is just great.
Haha the selection of water pipes were great too.
Nunthiya posing with... i dunno, something. Note her attire - thats how warm it is around here. im wearing more because at night it gets cold again.
All right there is a lack of photos regarding the food so I'll just say what it is we cooked up:
Dumpling soup with seaweed, vegetables, mushrooms
Chicken rice with cucumber, eggs, tomatoes
Stir fried vegetables
And finally, chocolate fondue provided by Pieter!
End result - EVERYTHING got eaten. I am quite pleased that it turned out so well, but a bit angry for not churning out more rice / chicken / vegetables. We were just quite worried that everybody would give up eating ala fear factor.
It was crazy tiring bustling about in the kitchen but in the end its just worth it. This has been our market research and now that it seems a success, I guess its time to start thinking about opening a restaurant in Europe, eh. And not those crappy chinese nonsense with sweet sour sauce either.
Oh yea some of us ended up watching Borat after the meal with a shot of Absinthe. To anyone who cares, I think I found a minor contradiction within the show. I've actually watched it quite a few times :|
Ho well. Tomorrow I leave for Morocco.. just Marrakesh. To all the folks back home, see ya real soon. To all the folks right here, hope to see you all again before I leave!
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