Lets Party!!

We had a hall reception party yesterday and there was a fabulous variety of food cooked by the enthusiatic residents. Spanish Paella, curry chicken, Japanese soya chicken, steamed pork in black bean sauce, chicken rice, korean vermicelli salad, delicious thai nibbles that I've never seen before, sweet corn salad, canadian maple-sourcream with sweet potato, lots of drinks, and clotted cream cake are just a sample of the dishes we had. There are some which I can't put a name to, so I left them out. I guess this is what makes staying in an international hall so enjoyable.



My contribution was the ever popular but humble agar agar, which came out looking dirty green instead of bright green because I forget about the colour effect brown suger has (not shown, cos too ugly but the hall people didn't mind cos I guess they have no idea what agar agar should looks like *LOL*) And also the hainanese chicken rice (pictured above, the 3 trays garnished with cucumber) which took me and WY 5 hours to prepare.

I owe my successful maiden attempt to this wonderful recipe from the website:
http://www.recipezaar.com/133760

Their fresh chili and ginger sauce is so easy to prepare and taste absolutely fantastic. Don't save on the lime, especially for the ginger sauce. I didn't know beforehand that adding chicken stock would make such a great and positive difference to the taste and I highly recommend chili lovers to try making it!

Many thanks to Elgin for lending me his big pot - opps, still in my room - ah well, hope he is not in urgent need for it.

Happy Halloween too!! Wonder if there will be any early fireworks tonight. =)