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.

4th dish: salted vegetables with intestines

5th dish: fish

6th dish: bitter gourd

7th dish: elephant trunk clams in bamboo with tung hoon

8th dish: oysters ommelette

9th dish: asparagus shoots with siu yook

bitter gourd

10th dish: deep fried sole

11th dish: dessert.......sweetened lotus root (hard but sweet)

12th dish: or nee (famous Teo Chew yam dessert with gingko nuts)

digging in

13th dsih: stir fried elephant trunk clams

14th dish: vegetables

15th: fresh fruit platter

16th dish: sweetened sweet potatoes and yam cubes

with Orr Nee (cloyingly sweet) I am a Hakka, I am not excited with Orr Nee

17th dish: porridge with century egg

our personal porridge pot (from Cosway, I also have one!)

finished: going down the spiral staircase

all China restaurants have these beautifully dressed tall, lanky girls at the entrance

then we went back to our hotel, no not Venice, which is where we have our supper, and breakfast just across our hotel.

New Plum Restaurant, Shantou

Xiao Ying, the son, fetched us to New Plum for dinner. It was 7 in the evening, and the crowd was the going home traffic...mad traffic worse than KL!

This is the situation described by Jackson, the tour guide: If you want to cross the road, just walk without stopping. Cars and other traffic will avoid you, not you dodge them!

 Look at the green arrows..where are they pointing?

 This bicycle is passing right in front of the car dashboard!

 After a harrowing ride, we reached the restaurant: another surprise is in store for us!

 This is only a restaurant in a small town, Shantou, not a big city like Guangzhou

To think that in KL, we only managed to being them to Tmn Midah Restaurants and Pik Wah at MABA House!

 This is the front and downstairs..the dining areas are upstairs.

We were shocked to see the sheer array of food displayed and laid out elaborately...

 Pots and pots and cauldrons and cauldrons of bubbling broth and goodness knows what edibles, with so many chefs in attendance

 goose and goose parts seem to be very popular

 Reminds you of Hansel and Gretel's evil witch's pots of brew at best, and at worst, Macbeth's 3 witches!

 These chefs (and all the other chefs) always look away nonchanlantly when I shoot them! ha ha ha!

 Have you ever seen so much food cooking?

Have you ever seen so many cooks at any one time?

The rest of the party has gone upstairs

 Come and look! Giant Shark fin...he has only seen shark fins in the bowl of soup not on the fin and displayed in cabinets.

 Imagine some sharks swiiming around finless, if they survivied after being hacked and thrown back that is.

                                                            

 Award winning fins! Never mind that it ought to belong to the back of the shark.

Dried sea horses, like what I find in my dad's medicine shop.

 eeks! intestines and kiam chye!

 eerr, I dunno what

 A stunning array

 chicken displayed thus, not hung

 China version of foie gras

 Goose wings, webbed feet, and other parts

when I took this dough old man, I got chased off! 

 Pu Ker Yee Pai Chow!

 heh hehe heh, but not for long, I soon whipped out my camera and and continued snapping!

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these are desserts

 eels

 now getting to be like the fish section of Tesco or Giant

 first time I have seen bloodied, freshly plucked out fish bladder

 so much fish, so fresh, u think they are selling fish!

elephant trunk shellfish

 weird looking crustacean

 if not for the fins and gaping mouth this fish would have morphed into a  rock

 tiger  prawns that looked like????words fail me

what you want to eat? I dunno, I am spoilt for choice.

 Veg section. 

Just get me something edible, Ying.

Every restaurant has these girl receptionists dressed in gowns.

 All the above is only the prelude to dinner!

Wait till you see what we have for dinner!!!!!