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.