Dinner Party

Last Thursday night, Bjorg and I finally got down to having our chinese and korean friends over for dinner.

We have been very bored over the last week and needed something to look forward too. Also since we're leaving pretty soon we figured that we might as well try to finish as much of the spices that we had.

There were eight of us in all and it was the first time we were preparing so much food. We have had that many people over for dinner before back home but that only involved cooking simple things like spaghetti and making salad.

This time we wanted to bring our guests the complete taste of home (or as much of it as possible). So this is what the menu was like:

1. Prawn Crackers & Thai Chilli Sauce
2. Bak Kut Teh
3. Beef Rendang
4. Green Vegetables in Oyster Sauce
5. Mee Goreng
6. White Rice
7. Cereal Prawn
8. Raita
9. Grass Jelly with Longan and Sea Coconut for desert

Much to our surprise the food turned out pretty well and our guests were very happy. We could tell that they were not just being polite. I would say that the only "problem" we had was with recreating an authentic tasting mee goreng. I think we managed fairly well to recreate a dish that looked like mee goreng but we're not too sure about the taste.

Although the plan was to try to cook food that our guests would never have tasted before (so they wouldn't be able to tell if it was authentic or not), the chinese recognized some of the dishes. To our relief, they really liked it.

Apart from the food, the evening went well and we all had a good time.

Unfortunately, we have no pictures of the dinner party. Wasn't thinking too clearly after all the cooking.