Food tasting/ testing

And to end the Holy Thursday, We went to Oriental Restaurant in Jaya 33 to taste and test the food that was to be served during Madeline's wedding dinner in June. It was also an opportunity for Madeline's father to meet up with the future in-laws. On our side, mum, wife, Alex and myself were there. Yin San and father made up the Tham side of the family.

On the Hiew side, there was of course Vincent's parents, youngest brother and girlfriend. Including Vincent and Madeline we made up a dozen.

We started off with tidbits while waiting for everyone to turn up. The steamed groundnuts were savoury. When everybody was ready, the first dish was served. It was center pieced with Jellyfish and squid, tofu on the side, with steamed chicken and roast duck. Next, the traditional shark fin soup was served. Nothing to rave about. The suckling pig followed. Vincent's mum had reservation about this dish. Seems to be cruel to kill of the piglet just to satisfy our needs. This was followed by a Garoupa, which had it's flesh taken off, basted and fried with a touch of wasabi. The rest of the fish was deep fried. The meat was rather tasteless and most of us agreed that this may not be suitable for the wedding nite. This dish will be changed.

Then came the steamed freshwater prawns. It was very fresh. The meat had a twang to it. But Vincent's mum did not like the rather fishy taste. So this dish will also be changed. It will still be prawns served prepared and served differently. The next dish was a genuine fake vegetarian dish. Typically, this dish would be authentically vegetarian, but this one was served with roast pork . Interesting!! The main course ended with glutinous rice.

Appetizers was Chinese pancakes and some kind of dumpling finishing off with a double boiled cold, pear sweet soup.

Burp!!!!!