Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Farewell Dinner with 8 courses

Wow, I think this must be like the 4th or 5th Chinese eight course dinner I've had, in less than two months? (yes, including my own wedding dinner)

This time was a treat from hubby's aunt, to bid farewell to my brother and sister-in-law and the kids who will be relocating for work overseas.
We went to this Chinese restaurant; Coconut Palms
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Braised groundnuts served as appetizers
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Starters: Ye Lin Selected Four Season
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Top left: Deep fried sweet and sour pork meatballs, braised rolls with egg white, breaded meat rolls, spicy green apple and pineapple kerabu salad with top shells.

Soup: Braised shark's fin soup with crab meat
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I am not a fan of this, ever :P
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Chicken: Served two styles; deep fried with black pepper sauce and braised with herbs
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Prawns: Fried prawns with cheese and salad cream
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This turned out to be good, and the prawns were just so succulent :)

Vegetables: Braised broccoli with fish maw and mushrooms
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Fish: Steamed red snapper with mint style
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This is a rather unusual way to serve a fish, if you ask me, but it was surprisingly quite tasty and the aroma of the mint leaves were just subtle and not too overwhelming.
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Noodles: Served two styles
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Dessert: Honeydew Ice-cream with sago
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There is a scoop of ice-cream for each person at the table; that meant there were 10 scoops in this bowl!
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Served with Purple Cassava net spring roll (pretty much yam paste as its stuffing ingredient)
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Overall dinner took about 2-3 hours with food and laughing over jokes and just enjoying time with each other.
We have sent them off to the airport on Monday, and it was an emotional affair that I simply could not help a tear or two as I watch them leave.

We will be meeting very soon, and I am looking forward to visiting them a lot too :)

“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.”
- Richard Bach -

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14 comments:

  1. Those prawns look so delicious, and the noodles too! What are the sliced round things on top of the noodles? in the centre?

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  2. Gosh! Food look so gooood....

    btw, is this your main blog?

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  3. Sounds like a fun feast! The chicken dishes look so delicious.

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  4. What a feast Christy...they all look so delicious, I love this kind of Chinese banquet :-)
    Hope you are having a wonderful week!

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  5. Charles, the prawns were really really goooood!!:)
    Oh, those sliced round things on top of the noodles are the bbq roasted pork (Char Siew), why, you are intrigued with them? :p

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  6. Small Kucing, this is ONE of my blogs:)
    My main blog is at http://christylifejournal.blogspot.com
    I have a travel blog too; http://christytraveblogue.blogspot.com

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  7. lisa, yeah, it was fun!!:D

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  8. Juliana, yeah, all these Chinese banquets are cool!:) I definitely am enjoying my week, hope you are too!;)

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  9. Wow that's a lot of food. It sure looks delicious though.

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  10. 8 COURSES! OH MY GOSH! I bet you were stuffed by the end of it! :D

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  11. This must be tasty! Thanks for sharing these fantastic photos too...

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  12. Vicki, yes, they are!:)

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  13. Fati, I was already stuffed by like, the fourth or fifth dish!;p

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  14. Loveforfood, thanks for dropping by with your lovely comment!;)

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