Family dinner

Family gathering dinners are considered a huge thing in hk families. Fish, soups, desserts are a must!

That's why people like my MIL would not invite ppl into the house cause there was just so much expectations! (Plus too much work to do) Hump.

In order to break the bad cycle of : Going to people's place for dinners and not vice versa.  We decided to start the trend!
(This is also part of the therapy we would want to train MIL not to hoard things at home, and hide things away from visitors. )

So it started on Christmas, where we invited aunt and her husband for Christmas dinner. Then on Friday, we invited the aunt n her whole family (husband + 2 children) over for dinner. Oh what an event! It that been years that the cousins were allowed and able to step into this place, let alone have dinner here.

Instead of following their crazy hk traditions of cooking fish, soups, desserts.... I prepared Vietnamese rice paper roll for dinner! Which means, it's like a popiah style,where people wrap their own rice paper roll for dinner. Very hands on. And for soup, we have simple yet nutritious Miso soup! During the last minute, my MIL requested me to make some dessert drink. So I quickly gathered all the dried ingredients from the fridge and pantry, wack it into the pressure cooker and there comes the red bean soup! (With lotus seed and lotus flower)

Simple ingredients of Hainanese chicken (shredded chicken), roast honey soy chicken (shredded), bean sprout, beehoon (rice noodles), spring onions, basil, coriander, fish sauce mix and peanut sesame sauce mix. Oh, and not forget the rice paper! 

So who says dinners much be Big fish and Big meat.

kcan