14pax lunch dishes
i made a 14pax lunch for teban gardens staff & volunteers today on 7.3.2018. ^^
this was a farewell lunch for AC & wife B who are taking up a 8 yr mission posting to udon thani near laos border.
KF, my close friend & jogging buddy LCH, & WM also joined lunch.
14pax lunch dishes
i made 8 dishes-
1 claypot chicken rice
2 braised belly pork with mushrooms
3 teochew braised hock 卤元蹄
4 steamed minced pork with light soy sauce
5 claypot tanhoon prawns
6 白斩鸡, chicken rice & chilli
7 steamed angkoli fillet with taujeon lime sauce
8 fried kang kong & cuttlefish in nonya sauce
14pax lunch dishes
i can see everyone had a really enjoyable time…
claypot chicken rice has always been my most popular dish…everu friend & family loved it.
& claypot rice was good today..very flavourful & chicken was plump, tender & tasty..
it was upstaged & outvoted by the chicken rice though…everyone loved the chicken, and especially the rice – very flavourful, fried fragrant with chicken fat & cooked with intense chicken stock…
chicken rice chicken 白斩鸡
chicken rice chicken 白斩鸡
& K loved the chilli…
the chicken rice chicken 白斩鸡 was very tender & moist. even the breast meat very moist & sweet…
many liked the 元蹄braised hock too. i used the teochew light braise (own braising sauce) instead of the darker tai hua braising sauce..
very “pang”, flavourful, gelatinous & even the lean meat was moist & tasty…
#4 braised belly pork & mushrooms
the braised belly pork & mushrooms was ok..R commented the belly pork was very tender…i think the mushroom taste overpowered it a bit, so i think the taste of the 元蹄braised hock braising sauce was better…
the steamed minced pork with light soy sauce was another popular & talked about dish, with my many friends & also with this teban gardens gang..
it is so easy to make, just 2tbsp good fragrant light soy sauce, 2 tbsp olive oil & 1tbsp cornflour…
the taujeon lime juice steamed angkorli was ok…not many commented so i guess while it was ok, it was not a stand out dish..a hk steamed red garoupa would be better, but since i had the firmer, less tender texture of angkorli (seabream or white snapper), a slight sour, sweet salty taste was a good condiment to the fish…
the tanhoon prawns was another favourite dish…very fragrant, great wokhae & very tasty tanhoon from the intense chicken stock, and wonderful black pepper fragrance & coriander flavour…
#8 fried cuttlefish kang kong in nonya sauce
fried cuttlefish kang kong in nonya sauce was good too…here the nonya sauce stood out. cuttlefish was just nicely done so no overcooked & rubbery.
i admire AC couple commitment to a 8 yr missionary posting…AC said previously he did 12 yrs…or 3 4-yr posting..i guess that was harder still as children young then…
very happy to be cooking a meal for the first my friends at teban gardens..these people are doing such good works…i started cooking a friday breakfast community dish for teban gardens on 8jan2016..
(update=as of today 24mar2018, i did 57 times friday breakfast dish for teban gardens…my most recent was braised pork cubes on 23mar2018)
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