Happy New Year!!!

Wow! Time certainly flies. It is already 2009!! Happy New Year everyone!! It has been a year since Ping had the mini-steamboat party at her place, with only WY, PH, ah Pei and Ming over while everyone else was spread out elsewhere.

Since most of the gang is in town, Ping had a party to celebrate the countdown. It was also a reason for us to eat some hometown food that we miss.

Ping cooked the 'pek sak kae'...
and had lots of chicken stock. Wanted to use it to cook chicken rice but Brian volunteered to cook the chicken rice so Ping used it to cook 'loh mai kai'. Ping didn't get a chance to marinate the chicken for the loh mai kai earlier so added a little ngoh hiang hun that makes the loh mai kai taste more like bak chang rather than loh mai kai. Ah Pei and PH contributed the taugeh for the chicken rice.
Since we had chicken rice, it seems wasted not to have char siu. We also need more vegies so we had bok choi and mushroom. Deckson also brought some salad.
Thanks to ah Pei and PH for all the help with cutting up the pineapple and cucumber for the laksa, buying the laksa bor and deboning the mackeral for the laksa. Also thanks to TT for bringing the curry chicken, Deckson for the 龟苓膏 (gui ling gao, some kind of jelly with some roots extract), and Alan for the super addictive drink!!! Haha...
It has been a great year and the coming one will even be better! There are bound to be changes as most of the gang have graduated and will be moving on to the next agenda on their 'life-to-do' lists, and now that Ping's brother is here, Ping's project in lab is also changing, the downs will come but it will be the ups that will make it a better year!! Happy New Year!!