Eve Dinner
Part of my parents in law Chinese New Year shopping routine was to get roast chicken and roast duck from across the border city for our reunion dinner.
But this decades old tradition was broken this year with news of an even stricter border checks and so for perhaps the first time after many years, we had home roasted chicken and duck for our recent reunion dinner.
My father in law decided to cook the duck this year and our kitchen sure smelled so good the whole afternoon as the duck was being roasted.
Since I have the double-barrelled reasons of being busy with the kids and having not much interest in the kitchen, the food was prepared by my in laws - single handedly.
Roast duck, roast chicken, roast pork, “mah kui” (our special family springrolls) were all prepared in addition to our steamboat - and you can imagine our table groaning under the weight of all those food!
Being an aspiring chef, my father in law even took the trouble to garnish all the dishes :
Even without the steamboat, the table was already full
And my mother in law, immediately assigned me the job to photograph our lovely albeit 90% meat dishes!
So much meat!
