Thank You

So after some time here and esp after having 3 great ppl super looking after me and everything.
I thought i'd take it upon myself to do something as a lil thank you to the three of them.
So i invited them all over and cooked them dinner. (You could argue at this point that that really isn't much of a thank you as it was a torturous ordeal

Be that as it may i took it upon myself to churn out a meal for my generous colleagues. I am a man of simple tastes so i decided to make the following

Hainan Chicken w/ ginger and shallot oil (i'd premade the oil)
My favourite Tofu Gung soup.
Fried egg with onion.
and some lightly pan-fried scallions in soy sauce....

i went to the supermarket after work to especially buy the soy sauce.... Kikkoman of course :P omy.. SO good tasting that soy sauce for the first time in ... 8 weeks? soy sauce tastes diff here.... sweeter i guess you could say and in a way more fragrant.

ANYhoo i got started with the dinner... took me a while in the end
everything is so simple to make and easy to look up and easier to make... and i don't wanna try and look prop and shit by telling ppl how i make stuff so i'll just let pictures speak

and i'l say right now that the chicken IS in fact cooked :P

This is the Hainan chicken.... and i gotta say.. it was pretty damn good... very soft... and easy to cut....... and yes i know it looks as if i half cooked it but i assure you all that it was in the hot boiling/near boiling water for... 20-25 minutes..... i SWEAR!!

i could've chopped it more presentably...... but after deboning it and only cutting half the chicken first (the other half i wanted to deep fry the skin to crisp it up but i gave up and after we went through half of the chicken quickly.... i figured just go for cold chicken instead... it'd be a waste to fry it...


This is my super favourite tofu gung soup...... LOVe the way dad makes it. i never think i do it justice.. but considering i only had frozen prawns, mussels to go with the nice tofu and dried mushies..... but it turned out alright even if i did sneak a big spoon of powdered beef stock into it :P kekekekeke.... in my defence i only did it cos the base tasted a lil too watery..... but all was well in the end.



So this is what the dinner table looked like all set up and everything complete with the scallions and the egg..... Jin brought some of her homemade kimchi which was pretty awesome too... one her mum made and the other she made herself :P
rockin'.
The fried egg and the scallion are SO simple.. (literally just into the pan and fry) DEF no need to explain.



and now for the people


Nicole and Tyler....
Nicole has been helpfully trying to get me out of my shell and to actually see stuff , but of course i'm waiting for somebody else to come see everything with me...
Tyler is THE dude i've been hanging out with...(him and Evan... who's currently left but will be back in August hopefully) so every Friday we're out to play pool and hit up the drinks.
He totally flogged me the first day i got here... but looking back i'm gonna go ahead and blame it on the jet lag :P hahahahaha i give and get nowadays :P which is exactly as it should be.
this coming Friday will be our last hoorah before he leaves, and Shir comes.... so if i'm not too destroyed i'll grab pics of me and him hitting up the tables and the bars :P
muahahaha



This girl here really isn't the booze-hound she appears to be, in fact quite the opposite.
Jin's ben helping me with everything from phones, to camera's, mp3 players to airline tickets to hotel bookings :P
if she did anything more for me i'd have to put her on retainer as my secretary kekekeke
*please don't hit me*



Anyway so after a thank you dinner what better to do than to have a thank you post :P


THANKS GUYS

Tyler's leaving in 2 weeks, Nicole in 2 months and Jin is stuck with me for the next 11 months :P
sucks to be her right? :P



Peace all....... missing you guys heaps.....