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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Supper at Venice Restaurant, Swatow

After dinner (14 March 2011) China family and Malaysia family went back to the hotel for family bonding over tea (Chinese tea of course, not Harrods tea)

we all stayed at the same hotel, Happy Hotel

the graveyard shift with a skeleton staff on duty

hotel foyer by night

the patient, silent-suffering manager handled our complaints

Uncle Siang's single suite has a sitting room, bedroom and business centre

perfect for our night cap

men's talk (seated)

girl's talk (standing)

catching up after 40 years

catching with Malaysia online

these youngsters.....when is it ever going to be my turn?

her turn at last

thank god I have my own Nokia

After everyone had retired for the night, Uncle Siang, Jenn and I walked over to Venice for supper

After such a heavy dinner we still had room for supper!

full buffet spread for supper!

white broth or congee (they also brought in fish porridge, pei tan porridge)

tiny mussels

vegetables, chicken, pork

late night crowd

Uncle Siang went back to call the relatives, but they were in pyjamas, some had hit the sack, some too full, some lazy to come down, and he came back alone. So there was only 3 of us for supper!

Happy Hotel by night.

GOOD NIGHT!!!!!!!!! Full Day with Relatives the next day!

Dinner at NEWPLUM Garden Restaurant, Shantou

After I have shown you the downstairs area of NewPlum Restaurant, where the awesome display and also kitchen part is situated, we went upstairs to our private dining room.

these are the common dining areas for walk-ins

huge, right? nothing like KL restaurants

the biggest room with the biggest table and the biggest lazy susan I have ever(never) seen in KL

1. Uncle Siang 2. Auntie Siok Yin 3.Auntie Guek 4.Grand UncleXiao 3.Grand Aunt 5.Auntie Poh

6.Aunt Chuen Chuen 7.her daughter YenYen Xiao 8.Me..youngest daughter-in-law 9.Jenn youngest Tay 10.Xiao LiangSeng 1.Uncle Siang

11. Ken T, 12 Xiao No 4 son, 13. Xiao Ying (Yen's bro, same age as Sue) 14. Yen Ling, No 4 son's wife (and Chuen Chuen, No 1 son's wife).... ..am I getting complicated?

Auntie Poh, 15. Kiat Tay, youngest T brothers, Ken, No4, Ying

Poh, (Auntie Poh is made-in-China) 16. Uncle Yam No 2 T-brothers, Kiat, Ken, No 4(forgot his name lah) and Ying

Young Uncle Xiao of China and his Malaysian counterparts.

wizened faces of Uncle Xiao and Aunt Xiao, they have been through a lot

the younger generation of the Xiao (Seow) family has done well.

we were served the most delicious hot almond drink, but many members of the T family including my husband are averse, allergic even to ALMONDS (smelly, reeks of cockcroaches, to them) and sadly(to me) this almond drink has been discontinued from our dinners.

our first dish, a soya sauce stewed meat

2nd dish: goose meat and goose liver

goose liver was meltingly soft, but one piece was enough!

3rd dish: fried sweet potatoes.

Grand Aunt swears by sweet potatoes: she gave us a bag of raw sweet potatoes to take back, "everybody must take a few, go back, boil it and eat it". Everybody had lack of suitcase space and the bag of raw sweet potatoes went back to her.