The Sunday Dinner

We have planned to have a family dinner today, but that did not stop Seng and I from running down to Batu Lanchang for a good bowl of curry mee. We think this is one of the best places for curry mee, because of its tasty curry and good ingredients.
Back at the house, Seng busied himself cooking the Sunday dinner while I chilled the beer.
The family started showing up around 11:30. Siew Loon, Lilian, and May Ling arrived first. It was a nice surprise to see May Ling. Siew Kai arrived with more mangos. Since we have a quorum, we started with the beer drinking. We brought out the murukku, a tasty, salty, spicy Indian snack food. You can see a bag of murukku in the picture with the sliced mangos. It is a perfect complement for beer.
A few moments later, we were joined by William. I have not seen William in the last few times when I came back to Penang, so I did not recognize him, and mistook him for Ronnie, whom I have also not seen for a while.
Sui Fun and Peter came in fashionably, amidst shouts of "here comes the movie star.", but she brought an important contribution - a big roast duck. Mom said we must all be drunk to make so much noise.

We were still waiting for Ronnie, but Sui Fun gave the word that we should start eating, because we were expecting a teacher to come by at 2:30PM, so we have to finish and clean up the place for the study group.
Ronnie actually showed up not long after, and we squeezed him in at the table.
Ronnie is Sui Fun's son, and works as a software engineer at Dell. That is why Siew Loon's first words to him is "Ron, any good deals for a Dell?" It does not matter how many times Ronnie says he is only involved with software, and has no connections to the hardware, the question gets asked again and again.
The questioning turned to teasing. Siew Loon found out Ronnie has been to the U.S., and started telling him he should hide in the U.S. next time he goes overseas. "Don't come back, just hide in the Chinatown. They will never find you there." Poor Ron. I bet he regrets coming to the dinner.

Of the dishes served today, my favorite is the "Loh Hon Chai", Buddhist vegetable dish. It is mostly Napa cabbage, bean curd sticks, sweet bean curd, black mushrooms, and glass noodles. I like to eat it over rice.

Besides this, Seng also made Roast Chicken. It is an amazingly tasty chicken, made in the microwave oven. I must get the recipe.


After dinner, we made plans to go to Bukit Metajam, across the channel, tomorrow for a good bowl of beef noodle soup.