Steamed Carrotcake making day

Oh, we are talking about the chinese carrot cake here.
We have a hearty lunch first before we bean with the carrotcake.

Tiang bought the delicious otah. The non-spicy ones seems to be very popular this round and were all eaten up first.

Fang's sis famous marinated chicken wings ! Really nice ! We snapped up the 2kg chicken wings and BC did not get to pack any home in the end. Nevermind, we are going to have this dish on Christmas !! Looking forward !

Fang made these lovely egg mayo sandwiches too.

BC cooked some greenbean cum sweet potato soup .. yummy !

My MIL's so-delicious popian ! Very good review from friends and relatives ! Our favourite at all times !

Everyone has some fun making the popian.

Now the "hardwork" began ... the making of steamed carrot cake ! Fang has to cut the chinese sausages into very small cubes. Not the more relaxing task here as the chines sausage can be rather tough.

Next, we have BC shredding the turnip and carrot.

Tiang has an easier task of cutting the luncheon meat. The poor lady has just recovered from flu.

They worked hard while I just gave instructions .. hee ... so I got the easiest task of all !

First round of steaming the two carrotcakes have been completed !

Getting ready to fry the next batch of carrotcake ingredients !

The finished product ! You can either eat it the way it was or just pan fried it to get that extra fragrant aroma !

At ECP for picnic and for Tiang & Ryan's Birthday !

A picnic at East Cast Park on a Sunday morning with 1B18. It was a blessed day with pretty good weather. Pretty good weather in late November means NO rain ! It has been raining dogs and cats recently.

We waited at Mac Donald restaurant first and proceeded to spot an ideal spot for the picnic. Shaded places with tables and benches nearby have been taken up, therefore, we decided to settle down where we thought was most ideal.

Not a bad spot, at least we were shaded from too much sun ! And we still can get a glimpse of the sea :)

Pretty good ration of picnic food! We did not waste much food! Lovely food prepared by all ... delicious vegetarian bee hoon fried by BC. She was so stressed when we placed so much high expectations and praises for her bee hoon during the last picnic. So for this round, she must maintained her standard. Well, the verdict was that her standard was maintained ! I requested 2 servings served by Ah Leng ! Fang prepared her yummy egg mayo plus a piece of ham sandwiched in between ! She prepared sausages and fishballs as well. Seriously, I don't remember eating any fishballs at all. I understand from Fang that Ryan has eaten the most fishballs ! No wonder ! Lol... We bought ready-marinated CP honey wings which JL thought was nice. He thought that I have marinated and fried it. Sorry to disappoint you but I didn't want to claim the credit from CP... hee. Ah Leng and her mum brought cut fruits and we had a first taste of Ah Leng's home-baked 爱 心cake ! Our Birthday girl, Tiang bought some titbits from her Phuket's trip.

Hmm ... our end results of a good picnic !

Our bikers ! On their way for an hour or so of fun and exercise !

Introducing the first happy-looking biker, aka BD lady, Tiang !

Introducing the second biker who looks very confident behind the wheels, Ah Leng !

Introducing the ???? ... Superstar ? Also the BD boy of the day, Ryan !

Introducing the "relac-relac", "ai-mine, ai mine" looking teen, JL !

Introducing the newly-wedded couple, Fang and Gav ! Yes, double happiness and double bikers here !

Introducing the tall and lanky man ! That's how the ex-pet groomer used to describe him !

So what were the rest doing up their sleeves ?

Ok, we caught the aunties "gossiping" between themselves for quite sometime. I was quite curious what they were talking about .. must find out from my mum. Apparently, there were some 'taboo topics" which were banned by Ah Leng.

BC and Min having a good time at the beach ! And my role was to take photos of them !

Check out the series of photos taken of the lovely mum and daughter.

Min was most cooperative with the sands and waters under her feet ! She generously smiled and posed nicely for the ardent shutter-bug !

While BC brought Min for a shower (luckily she brought extra clothing and towel along as Min was wet from head to toe !), I "targeted" my lens to mum and auntie.

Here goes:

Auntie was shy and not very keen when taking photographs. She looked good and her radiant face matched her lilac shirt quite well.

Mum was definitely not camera-shy. She loves photographs taken !

Photos with friends time !!

Last but not least, a wonderful Birthday to Tiang and Ryan ! May happiness and laughter be with you both, always !

Photobook making and Makan ...

This gathering started off between BC and me over the making of her photobook which she has purchased. However, I was glad that the rest were willing to join in our fun even though they were not doing the photobook. Somehow or rather, this photobook session has evolved into a real makan feast day and night for all of us ! We have managed to convince LL to join us and it was nice of her to re-schedule her cycling passion to another date ! Of course, not forgetting to thank everyone for their time and effort taken to travel all the way to our rural kampong from another kampong !

Thanks to LL for the yummy rich & good swiss roll ! A lot of rave over this moist and yummy swiss roll in the website ... oh, LL, if you were ordering this again, let me know please ?

Yummy Otah bought by Fang, Gavin and Ryan from Jalan Kayu.

IKEA fried chicken wings bought by Fang, Gavin and Ryan bought in Tampines IKEA .. surdap

Thanks to Tiang for this famous Lao Ban Dou Jiang .. now we can tell people we have eaten before ... hee hee

Nice fruits rojak by BC .. all the washing, peeling and cutting of the fruits !

Chinese kueh from BC and ang mo kueh from DT.... . BC thanks for baking ... heard from Dean that you put in so much effort !

Nearby Ko-pi Tiam Thai-Shi bee hoon and Yang Zhou Fried Rice bought by CK. Dun know whether you all like the Tha-shi bee hoon because we used to packet back to makan for dinner.

How about a photo with all the yummy food?

Thanks to all the pals who queued up for the good food, bringing your home-made food and coming all the way from far ! It was a wonderful gathering !

Trying their hands on the rojak

Our "Princess dog" and the Princess Min and mummy BC. I liked the way Min held Jojo's leg ..cute ! As if to prevent him from falling off from the chair !

"I love the lady with stripes the best .... coz she's so scare of me ... hahahaha"

"Uncle Gavin and Aunt Fang, you should have asked me to be your flower girl too during your wedding ! Everyone said I look so sweet in my purple dress lor ..." ok, got reply from Auntie Fang that you might steal her limelight from her ... bahwahwah ....

"I'm so shy... I feel like a superstar dog ! Is that my last fan to take photo with me ?" With Auntie Ah Tiang ...

Thanks to Fang for her dinner treat. Besides the dishonest staff who served us, the food was actually good.
(These photos were taken by Fang's iPhone 4S which was definitely an improvement from the poor quality photos taken on iPhone 3gs)

Cereal Prawns

Butter squids

Chilli Kang Kong

Prawn paste chicken wings

Hot plate Dou Fu

Pumpkin sauce Pork Rib

Anyhow, it was a public holiday well-spent ! Really grateful that BC talked to me about her photobook and in return, our public holiday was not dull ! Hopefully the two boys enjoyed themselves with the Spyro Wii game and billards too!