Mum's birthday & Christmas Gathering

Mum's 65th birthday is on 21st December, the next day is always a "tung" celebration marking the start of winter in the Chinese lunar calendar, some said this day is "bigger" than Chinese New Year.

As the Christmas is just round the corner, I decided to celebrate the ocassions earlier merging mum's birthday and Christmas together on 19th December at my house, the pot luck style.

I baked two cakes, one butter orange cake requested by mum and a small fruit cake, Christmas is not so complete without a fruit cake, so I finally decided to bake a tiny fruit cake yesterday, it was decorated by Crystal and Pearl.

I prepared my speciality for the dinner, that's the spaghetti bolognese, cream of mushroom chicken puff and fried some ready packed chicken rolls. We moved around the furniture a bit to make more space for the evening too, that's kept us busy for the whole day. It was a very memorable and meaningful gathering.

My parents and five of us siblings

I should have taken a photo of the cake :C

A cute little Christmas cake, it's a bit sweet, gonna reduce on the sugar for my next baking.

Pizza from Pizza Hut brought in by Sis

Home made potato and ham salad by SIL, Shirly, Clet like it, I will need to get the recipe from her.

spaghetti bolognese by me

Older generation like my parents always prefer to have rice. Alfred took over the wok cooking this fried rice under the supervision of his wife, Catherine who is due to gave birth to a son end of this month. He is picking up cooking very well.

A big plate of fried meehoon by Alfred too, prove of great improvement in his cooking.

Egg and ham sandwiches ordered from the shop

fried chicken roll

Cream of mushroom chicken puff and tuna puff, my favourite baking.

Pause from eating to take a photo. Clet is busy fixing the video cam at the background.

sisters sharing a small table, Pearl and Anneliese were playing more than eating, they left their food almost untouched.