A treasure hunt to a pot luck, Lucky You.

Today was YiYuns bday! Yeah, sorry yiyun, i could not help but posting up a post specially for your birthday. Because i'm very proud that all the plans worked out and that my cooking wasnt too bad either and obviously because youre just a great friend. :)

Yeap, Yiyun, whom im sure had a memorable bday! shed not forgive us for embarrasing her infront of the Dublin public on a Friday (most happening) evening. We made her do a treasure hunt, with 4 stations, putting up make up on her, no, not for the better, but for the worse and then handing out her next clue.

and so it was, she was looking great, she had to flirt with the library receptionist, eat a flower petal infront of strangers, sing the national anthem with an irish flag painted wig, run around the park, do things in the gym with her "beautiful" make up, run around college looking like a clown, take pictures with the taekwando team, use a dustbin to help her camwhore and bake a fantastically delicious brownie (which was soooooo nice of her). as i said yi yun, dont wait for your bday to bake us a brownie, we dont mind it at anytime wan!!
Such a thoughtful friend deserves a post in my opinion.

It tasted awesomely nice!
(and thats yiyun covering her make up)

moving on to her actual birthday, we had a pot luck dinner for her, and it turned out to be a better hit in terms of food compared to our previous christmas pot luck. such good chefs we have here in dublin. :)

At 12 am we had the chocolate strawberry cheese cake a group of them made. The night before, I went over for "entertaintment" purposes for them whom were making the cake (according to jian gang). It was jian gangs reciepe, and i saw the cake come to the magnificient taste and look it carried. wonderful. tasted to me just like the tesco cheese cake i buy back at home.

During the cake making.

Her Head was made for my hands
Thats Catherine btw
Entertaining where i could

Went to McD on Grafton while waiting for the cake to cool down before putting on the icing.
This was our sleepy faces at 1am!
They made the cake, i was just there to "entertain" :)

FINAL PRODUCT: Chocolate Strawberry Cheese Cake


From sushi, to chicken curry, to banana cake, to Oriental Supreme Imperial Chicken Nge (formerly known as Chicken Nge by Rachel Nge) to korean kimchi, to veges, to bak kut teh, to my own indian deserts and catherines red bean dessert.


Yes mum, i made two indian dishes for this times pot luck, and since they had soo much meat, i opted for desserts. I made Gulab Jamun (in lay mans term, wheat ball in sugar syrup) and Payasam(a kind of liquid sweet dessert with sago and vermicelli)! can you believe me? i bet not! And i must say, i beat you to it! FLAT! There! you wait, your son is gonna come home and start teaching You! and maybe, even grandmother too!! hehe.
okay okay, i honestly felt it was really good. One of the bests ive ever tasted (dont say im boasting or what, cos i really felt that way). And also i made it to suite my taste, less stuff in the payasam and more sago. :) (or it may just be that it was my craving for indian food that made it taste soo good to me)

Payasam
looked great in real life and tasted good too!
Carl's and Thanu's comments were the best on this. They being indians knew what this was all about...

Gulab Jamun
It grew in size, i didnt expect it to. :) My first time on both dishes. Had a tough time making this... THIS wasnt easy...

it took me 2 solid hours to buy the stuff and make them, i was on a splitting headache then, and being in Millin house, theres only one basement kitchen for the 25 of us, so i had to lug everything down the stairs, and run up and down for about 20 times atleast to get stuff here and then. With the splitting headache too! Yun, seriously, if it wasnt your birthday, i would have just given up on trying to make the gulab jamun as it turned out to be, and i would have gone to bed while skipping the payasam... im being real honest there. And im glad you could try it, you nearly lost the gulab jamun there. Thankfully you did try it earlier.

And need i say how good the weather was today? the sun? oooh... beautifull... :)

Hope you had a great day,

Happy 20th Birthday YiYun!

Looking great there. ;) YiYun, Bday girl. :)
But you somehow resemble a clown here... i cant seem to figure out why though... Anyidea why yun? hmmm....

Cheers.

PS: 95% of the pictures courtesy of Catherine Studios :) Thanks cat!

One Life, One Love, Enjoy Every Bit of it- and celebrate your friends bday like its yours!